The New York Review of Books - USA (2021-12-16)

December 16, 2021 41 survival, even when it consists mainly of paperwork. Groff vividly captures the maneuvers a woman in the tw ...

42 The New York Review Gifts that Intrigue, CLASSICS & COLLECTIBLES A beautiful collector’s object, this is one of the most ...

December 16, 2021 43 LIFE STORIES LARGER THAN LIFE Inform, and Inspire SWEEPING TALES & LEGENDARY HEROES Ruth Bader Ginsburg ...

44 The New York Review throughout the Christian lands will be blamed.” Even her sole intolerance strikes a modern note: when Ele ...

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46 The New York Review Flies Like Us Tim Flannery Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects by Jona ...

December 16, 2021 47 *See, for example, What a Fish Knows (Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016); reviewed in the ...

48 The New York Review The Tender Trap Lorrie Moore Couples Therapy a documentary series directed by Josh Kriegman, Kim Roberts, ...

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December 16, 2021 51 with Amy Herzog) is neither graceful nor cogent, but if you want to see un- checked and destructive feeling ...

52 The New York Review Inventing the Science of Race Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran In 1712 King Louis XIV of France ...

December 16, 2021 53 Congratulations to the 2021 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Winners Presented by the Association for Jewish Stu ...

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56 The New York Review their contest had not solved the ques- tion of blackness. They themselves did not know what the right ans ...

December 16, 2021 57 provided the first philosophically rig- orous definition of race, one that not only asserted the biological ...

58 The New York Review Finding Babel in the Drawer Irving Howe My father, Irving Howe, wrote this essay on Isaac Babel in the la ...

December 16, 2021 59 revolutionary spirit, bestial cruelty.” But, he added, the Cossacks exhibit “an awesome force,” an “unutter ...

60 The New York Review but, soft and scrupulous, the narrator funks it. A comrade of the wounded man does the job and then turns ...