Enemies of Progress
Sometime in late 1983 or very early 1984, I traveled to Ouagadougou, the capital of a West African country then called Upper Volta, to get a...
Magic Mountains
As you finish one of these stories you might have the sensation that you’ve awakened abruptly in unfamiliar territory, far afield from where you thought you...
The World of Tadeusz Borowski’s Auschwitz
“Crematorium Esperanto.” When I first read that phrase, decades ago, I put my thumb on the page, let the book close on my hand, lay down...
Giants of the Northeast Kingdom
In the Review’s September 23, 2021, issue, Dan Chiasson takes stock of the Bread and Puppet Theater, a performance and art collective that began as a...
Remembering Michael Richards
Some years ago, after my mother died, a friend asked me whether I had dreamed of her, or whether I thought she was still “traveling.” I...
Litigating the War on Terror: An Exchange
In response to: “Michael Ratner’s Tragedy, and Ours,” September 1, 2021 To the Editor: Samuel Moyn’s main criticism of Michael Ratner is that, at least in...
Marine Le Pen’s ‘Perfect Soldier’
In April 2017, after qualifying for the second round of the French presidential election against Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen temporarily stepped back as leader of...
In the Drug Archives
In the September 23, 2021, issue of the magazine, Mike Jay reviews two books that seek to broaden the conversation about drug use in society. Michael...
Larger Than Life
Peter and Elka Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theater, the anticapitalist troupe founded in 1963, occupies several buildings on the former Dopp Farm in a remote corner...
The William Trevor Reader: An Introduction
Welcome to the William Trevor Reader! Here’s the plan: once a week, every week, I will read one story from William Trevor’s The Collected Stories and...
