Erin Maglaque
@ErinMaglaque
Historian, critic
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https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/04/wings-of-desire-they-flew-carlos-eire/ 29-06-2018 09:10:16
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I reviewed a 'history of the impossible' for The New York Review of Books. Spoiler: I hated it. But it was an occasion to think about my favorite things – desire, excess, belief; how we reckon with the strangeness of the premodern past.
nybooks.com/articles/2024/…
Our 4/4 issue is now online, with Erin Maglaque on miracles, Christian Caryl on Navalny’s legacy, miranda seymour on Lord Byron’s reputation, Jason DeParle on seeing homeless people, Daphne Merkin on Barbra, Phillip Lopate on Robert Louis Stevenson, and more. go.nybooks.com/4aeiYu7
I was always going to love Robyn Schiff’s INFORMATION DESK (as a former The Metropolitan Museum of Art intern) but I really, really, really love it