The New York Review of Books - USA (2020-04-09)

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Contents

4 Fintan O’Toole Bernie Sanders: An Outside Chance

8 Sylvia Legris Poem

9 Janet Malcolm Lovesick

10 Robert Macfarlane Traces of J.B. Jackson: The Man Who Taught Us to See Everyday America

by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

14 Coco Fusco The Fallen by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, translated from the Spanish

by Frank Wynne

The Disoriented Ones by Enrique Del Risco

18 Tim Wu The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future

at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff

20 Luc Sante Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings

by Glenn O’Brien

22 David Cole Trump Is Not Exempt

24 Namwali Serpell Watchmen a television series created by Damon Lindelof

27 David S. Reynolds Polygamy: An Early American History by Sarah M. S. Pearsall

29 John Banville C’est la Vie by Pascal Garnier, translated from the French by Jane Aitken

and three other books by Pascal Garnier

31 James Romm The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks

by Richard Stoneman

33 Cass R. Sunstein Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan

36 Francine Prose Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry

39 Ethan Bronner We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel by Daniel Gordis

Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance by Amy Kaplan

42 David Motadel Helping Hitler: An Exchange with Christopher Clark and Racheli Edelman

42 Letters from Albion M. Urdank and Caroline Fraser

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On the cover, from top: Bernie Sanders, drawing by Anders Nilsen; a detail from a panel in Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, 1986 –1987 (DC Comics);
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ALTERED STATES

JOHN BANVILLE ’s novel Snow will be published in
October.

ETHAN BRONNER , a Senior Editor at Bloomberg, is a
former Jerusalem Bureau Chief and Deputy Foreign Editor of
The New York Times.

DAVID COLE is the National Legal Director of the ACLU
and the Honorable George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and
Public Policy at the Georgetown University Law Center. His
latest book is Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements
Succeed.

COCO FUSCO is a New York City–based artist and writer
and the author of Dangerous Moves: Performance and Poli-
tics in Cuba.

SYLVIA LEGRIS ’s fourth poetry collection, Garden Physic,
will be published in 2021.

ROBERT MACFARLANE is the author of books about
nature, people, and place, including The Old Ways, Land-
marks, and, most recently, Underland: A Deep Time Journey.
He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

JANET MALCOLM ’s latest book is Nobody’s Looking at
You, a collection of essays.

FINTAN O’TOOLE is a columnist with The Irish Times and
the Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. His
most recent book is The Politics of Pain: Postwar England
and the Rise of Nationalism.

FRANCINE PROSE is Distinguished Writer in Residence at

Bard. Her newest book is a collection of essays, What to Read

and Why.

DAVID S. REYNOLDS , a Distinguished Professor at

the CUNY Graduate Center, is the author or editor of six-

teen books, including Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural

Biography, Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson, and

John Brown, Abolitionist. His book Abe: Abraham Lincoln in

His Times will be published in September.

JAMES ROMM is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of

Classics at Bard and the author of Dying Every Day: Seneca

at the Court of Nero and Ghost on the Throne: The Death of

Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire.

LUC SANTE ’s new collection of essays, Maybe the People

Would Be the Times, will be published in September.

NAMWALI SERPELL is a Zambian writer and Associate

Professor of English at the University of California at

Berkeley. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing.

Her first novel, The Old Drift, was published last year.

CASS R. SUNSTEIN is the Robert Walmsley University

Professor at Harvard. His latest book, Too Much Information,

will be published in the fall.

TIM WU is a Professor at Columbia Law School and a

contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. He is

the author of The Master Switch, The Attention Merchants,

and The Curse of Bigness.

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