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Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, writes Fintan O’Toole (Fintan O'Toole), “is a classic that is not sacrosanct. It is weighty enough to be canonical but flawed enough to be treated with healthy disrespect. It is infinitely malleable.” go.nybooks.com/4bmdFJJ
Quinn Slobodian (zeithistoriker) on the UK’s global empire of tax havens and money laundering go.nybooks.com/3UKxwgg
Christopher Byrd (Christopher Byrd) on Leon Forrest’s thousand-page epic, Divine Days go.nybooks.com/3wawKzT
“Armed non-state actors have been an on-and-off feature of Haiti’s political landscape” for decades, Pooja Bhatia writes. “But the groups that emerged during Moïse’s term were of another order.” go.nybooks.com/3JDYW13
“It could be said that Beyoncé is a better singer, Shakira a better dancer, Taylor Swift a better lyricist, or Britney Spears a better confessional autobiographer, but Madonna is mother.” —Joanna Biggs go.nybooks.com/4a6esh9
“The relentlessly wholesome story that Jill Biden tells about herself, and possibly to herself, doesn’t quite add up.” —pamela druckerman on the first lady’s memoir go.nybooks.com/4bhjXel
“Given the zeal with which humans...have found other ways to suck vast amounts of petroleum out of the earth, a handful of nukes detonated in the Canadian muskeg would have been just a drop in the barrel of oil’s ‘harmful effects.’” —John Washington go.nybooks.com/4dbfmLZ
'It could be said that Beyoncé is a better singer, Shakira a better dancer, Taylor Swift a better lyricist, or Britney Spears a better confessional autobiographer, but Madonna is mother.' - Joanna Biggs
‘Give Me Joy’ nybooks.com/articles/2024/… via The New York Review of Books
“The way Martha Graham placed the female body and mind at the center of her dances, recognizing her sexual desires as an integral part of her artistic persona—decades before the sexual revolution—was one of her most striking innovations.” —Marina Harss go.nybooks.com/3Qlqjkl
Very happy to see my review of two authors I've learned so much from Kojo Koram and Oliver Bullough appear in the pages of The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/articles/2024/…
“For the first time in American history,” writes Sean Wilentz, “the supreme judicial authority was parsing how much criminality to permit the chief executive.” go.nybooks.com/3y9ZqcC