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

January 13, 2022 7

Freedom

An Impossible Reality

RAYMOND TALLIS

Tallis brings his familiar erudition

and insight to this most intriguing

and important philosophical

question – the nature of our

freedom – one that impacts most

directly on our lives and takes us

to the heart of what we are.

AGENDA PUBLISHING

Longing

and Other Stories

JUN’ICHIRŌ TANIZAKI

Translated by Anthony H. Chambers

and Paul McCarthy

“In stories rendered with elegant

precision by the veterans

Anthony H. Chambers and

Paul McCarthy, Tanizaki masterfully

probes the complexities of the

human heart.”

—Juliet Winters Carpenter,

translator of

Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel

Dostoyevsky,

or The Flood of

Language

JULIA KRISTEVA

Translated by Jody Gladding.

Foreword by Rowan Williams.

“Dostoevsky, as Kristeva’s

reminder about language and the

sacred helps us guess,

loves religious mischief precisely

because he cares so much about

religious faith.”

—London Review of Books

Poetics of Liveliness

Molecules, Fibers, Tissues, Clouds

ADA SMAILBEGOVIĆ

“Science meets poetry meets the

ongoing unknown in a redefinition

of environmental poetics—bravo!”

—Cary Wolfe, author of

Ecological Poetics; or, Wallace

Stevens’s Birds

The Gentrification Plot

New York and the Postindustrial

Crime Novel

THOMAS HEISE

“Compelling and sophisticated,

[the book] offers richly detailed

readings of recent NYC crime fiction

that delineate and critique the

destructive effects of gentrification.”

—Kathy Knapp, author of

American Unexceptionalism

COLUMBIA

UNIVERSITY

PRESS

CUP.COLUMBIA.EDU

The Best American

Magazine Writing 2021

Edited bySID HOLT for

the American Society of

Magazine Editors.

Introduction by Clara Jeffery,

editor in chief of Mother Jones

The Best American Magazine

Writing 2021 presents outstanding

journalism and commentary that

reckon with urgent topics,

including COVID-19 and entrenched

racial inequality.

Cities of the Dead

Circum-Atlantic Performance

25th Anniversary Edition

JOSEPH ROACH

The anniversary edition of this

classic work features a new preface

reflecting on the relevance of

its arguments to the politics of

performance and performance in

contemporary politics.

“Keep ’Em in the East”

Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar

New York Film Renaissance

RICHARD KOSZARSKI

“[The book] permanently

reshapes our understanding of

American film as an art, a business,

and a cultural force.”

—David Bordwell, author of

Reinventing Hollywood

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