Susie Linfield on photography, race, and the depiction of Jewishness go.nybooks.com/3xPTQMu

“In my mid-40s, I was taking care of people with serious blood diseases, cancer, and AIDS. There was a lot of suffering.... I needed an outlet, some catharsis, and I thought writing might be the way to find that.” —an interview with Jerome E Groopman go.nybooks.com/4cZjHlb

Helen Vendler (from an old review in The New York Review of Books of Ashbery's A Wave), responding to the complaint that poems that seem to be 'about poetry' are not 'about life.' nybooks.com/articles/1984/…

Here’s the ⁦The New York Review of Books⁩ archive too, because you really don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone. nybooks.com/contributors/h…

Might the Supreme Court be thinking about doing the unthinkable on presidential criminal immunity? Is the majority in the tank for Trump? Here's what to listen for during tomorrow's (4/25) oral arguments.
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'The loss of Merrill ... is more than the loss of future poems. It is the loss of the voice 'behind' the poems, the voice that had won our confidence over many decades of our own lives.'

Same goes for the loss of Vendler's critical voice.

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In Gaza’s Hospitals | Omar al-Najjar in Gaza: “It became routine to receive patients who had been disfigured beyond identification...or to leave a dying patient for the sake of treating someone whose life could still be saved.” go.nybooks.com/3JtQMYX

From “Making It New,” Vendler’s review of John Ashbery’s 1984 collection A Wave nybooks.com/articles/1984/…

“What besieges Ana Magdalena is the crushing reality of the mundane from which there seems to be no escape.” —Ariel Dorfman on Gabriel García Márquez’s final novel, Until August go.nybooks.com/3QgM0BZ

“Langston Hughes vowed that his generation would express their dark-skinned selves without apology.” —Darryl Pinckney on the Harlem Renaissance go.nybooks.com/3JvJ28L

“Hospitals have become our homes,” Omar al-Najjar writes from Gaza. “They gathered us under their roofs; we slept in their rooms and corridors.” go.nybooks.com/4aTvEYs

“If Israel is to survive, physically and spiritually, it needs to undergo...a sea change in its vision of reality—a change on the order of what the South African apartheid regime experienced, with much bloodshed, as it began to collapse.” —David Shulman go.nybooks.com/3U8IJG5

‘If a man said to you “I am the great Bamboula,” you might be wise to take it with a pinch of salt. He *might* be the Great Bamboula. Or he might have just picked your pocket. Or both’.

Brilliant and funny from James Fenton on Sargent in The New York Review of Books⁩

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I am so proud of my former student Omar, a physician from Gaza, who wrote this beautiful piece about what it means to be from Gaza and still be there today, working in hospitals under unimaginable conditions.

“Civilizational crisis has spurred many a painter.” —an interview with Julian Bell go.nybooks.com/3Qj10iH

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“Molissa Fenley’s group works often resemble kaleidoscopic solos in which dancers edge in & out of sync or splinter and fuse.... Her solos, in turn, have the feel of shadowy duets, where the dancer rests her hands on the shoulders of ghosts.” —Erica Getto go.nybooks.com/3Ut1FjX

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