The New York Review of Books (2022-01-13)

January 13, 2022 21 To my older sister, unni... I em- bodied years of deception and our father’s betrayal. I represented her mot ...

22 The New York Review Notes from Underground Geoffrey O’Brien Eurydice an opera by Matthew Aucoin, with a libretto by Sarah Ruh ...

January 13, 2022 23 Every word sung is projected onstage. This is not merely a convenience for the spectators, but an integral p ...

24 The New York Review Dubliners Anne Enright The centennial of Ulysses is in 2022, and coming back to the book after a gap of s ...

January 13, 2022 25 that happy pantomime of literary Dubliners going about in straw boat- ers or long skirts on June 16. Ulysses ...

26 The New York Review Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution by Woody Holton. Simon and Schuster, 779 ...

January 13, 2022 27 ington Post that strongly appeared to endorse race- centered interpretations of the Revolution’s supposed pr ...

28 The New York Review become a slaveholding leviathan. Had that happened, the antislavery cause would have been set back indefi ...

January 13, 2022 29 Wonderful Warnings Rivka Galchen Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo. Candlewick, 263 pp., $16.99; $7.99 (p ...

30 The New York Review Florence Nightingale that Raymie has lost under the bed of a nursing home patient. They can’t reclaim the ...

January 13, 2022 31 great-grandfather, a magician, having cut her great-grandmother in half and never put her back together. It’ ...

32 The New York Review M. MOLEIRO THE ART OF PERFECTION OTHER TITLES AVAILABLE: Atlas Miller (1519) Bible moralisée of Naples (c ...

January 13, 2022 33 First, unique and unrepeatable editions limited to 987 copies numbered and certified by notary public “ The ...

34 The New York Review Castle’s Kingdom Andrew Martin James Castle: Memory Palace by John Beardsley. James Castle Collection and ...

January 13, 2022 35 The apparently more private books he made also convey a sense, or imi- tation, of record- keeping. The pages ...

36 The New York Review From Hell and Back Caroline Fraser My First Thirty Years by Gertrude Beasley, with a foreword by Nina Ben ...

January 13, 2022 37 She follows up with a description of her own early fascination with copulation, which is just as unsparing, ...

38 The New York Review and promptly offended the president of her school by publishing an article in The Seattle Times criticizi ...

January 13, 2022 39 Prove It! Dan Rockmore 99 Variations on a Proof by Philip Ording. Princeton University Press, 260 pp., $24.9 ...

40 The New York Review is not (“It was neither a boat, nor an aeroplane... ”). “Probabilist” works in the theme of chance. First ...