Contents
4 Ruth Bernard Yeazell The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years
of Women’s Self Portraits by Jennifer Higgie
The Self- Portrait by Natalie Rudd
10 Anahid Nersessian Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forough Farrokhzad,
translated from the Persian by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.
16 Julian Barnes Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France by Bridget Alsdorf
20 Martin Filler Momentum of Light by Iwan Baan and Francis Kéré
23 Caroline Fraser A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in US History by Francesca Morgan
26 Carolina A. Miranda Prospect.5: ‘Yesterday we said tomorrow’ an exhibition in various locations in New Orleans
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Naima J. Keith and Diana Nawi
29 Adam Hochschild Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury by Evan Osnos
Reign of Terror: How the 9 /11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
by Spencer Ackerman
American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears by Farah Stockman
32 David Salle Going on Her Nerve
35 Gary Saul Morson March 1917: The Red Wheel /Node III (8 March–31 March): Book 3
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz
Between Two Millstones: Book 2, Exile in America, 1978 –1994 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
translated from the Russian by Clare Kitson and Melanie Moore
36 Elisa Gabbert Poem
38 Ingrid D. Rowland Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome by Livio Pestilli
40 Christopher Benfey Here and There: Sites of Philosophy by Stanley Cavell, edited by Nancy Bauer,
Alice Crary, and Sandra Laugier
Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory by Stanley Cavell
42 Rowan Ricardo Phillips Poem
43 Regina Marler Art Is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur by Catherine Hewitt
46 James McAuley Macron on the Precipice49 Deborah Landau Poem
50 Brian Seibert Sportin’ Life: John W. Bubbles, an American Classic by Brian Harker
52 James Oakes The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Noah Feldman
55 Colin B. Bailey Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York City
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Perrin Stein
58 Letters from Kenneth Hermele, Seyla Benhabib, Cathy Curtis, and Aaron PoochigianCONTRIBUTORS
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