The New York Review of Books - 24.04.2020

April 23, 2020 21 The legal test for campaign expendi- tures is straightforward. Legislators are prohibited by law from spending ...

22 The New York Review clear: governing and campaigning would become indistinguishable. The consequences of that decision extend ...

April 23, 2020 23 tial success in reproduction, constitute natural selection, yielding elaborate adaptations. Darwin’s famous pr ...

24 The New York Review only began to ponder species and vari- eties in a new way. He went home with- out a theory. The moral, fo ...

April 23, 2020 25 Modernism, Inc. Martin Filler Gordon Bunshaft and SOM: Building Corporate Modernism by Nicholas Adams. Yale Un ...

26 The New York Review to the southeast. Hitchcock’s assess- ment was soon borne out when Mies’s infinitely superior bronze-fram ...

April 23, 2020 27 six-foot-wide Surrealist nocturne Le paysage (1927), which they sold to the National Gallery of Australia in 1 ...

28 The New York Review Like No One They’d Ever Seen Ed Park East Goes West by Younghill Kang, with a foreword by Alexander Chee ...

April 23, 2020 29 his two letters prove useless. A nickel gets him a space on a basement fl oor, in what he likens to “a crypt o ...

30 The New York Review tome called Universal Education; and Senator Kirby, who picks up a hitch- hiking Chungpa and heartily tel ...

April 23, 2020 31 novelists for whom English was a sec- ond language—in Kang’s case, third or even fourth, as he wrote poetry in ...

32 The New York Review colleagues. A civic organization called the Committee on Arrangements was formed, probably by him, for th ...

April 23, 2020 33 As Clean as Rage Nadja Spiegelman Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes, translated from the French by Frank ...

34 The New York Review protests and concerts she’d organized, the authenticity and excitement that could never match the bourgeo ...

April 23, 2020 35 in part. Despentes’s earlier pulp novels are revolutionary and furious, but they never aspired to greatness—th ...

36 The New York Review Brazil’s Dead End Larry Rohter Brazil Apart: 1964–2019 by Perry Anderson. Verso, 224 pp., $26.95 The Edge ...

April 23, 2020 37 bank accounts, and convicted of corrup- tion and tax evasion; he is now serving a fifteen- year sentence. What ...

38 The New York Review their health checked.” But he refuses to acknowledge the two principal au- thors of what he describes as ...

April 23, 2020 39 ‘Don’t Write on Here, Bad Girl’ Erica Getto and Max Nelson Work 1 9 61–73 by Yvonne Rainer. Primary Informatio ...

40 The New York Review photographs; drinking a glass of water; and eating a pear.” Members of this workshop, including Rainer, o ...