Issue September 26, 2019 - The New York Review of Books (2024)

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IN THIS ISSUECONTRIBUTORSJOHN BANVILLE’s latest novel is Mrs. Osmond.CHRISTOPHER R. BROWNING is Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent book is Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp.MICHAEL CHABON lives and works in Berkeley and Los Angeles.SARAH CHURCHWELL is a Professor of American literature and humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her book Behold America: The Entangled History of “America First” and “The American Dream” was published last year.J.M. COETZEE is Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of seventeen works of fiction, as well as numerous works of criticism and translation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.MARTIN FILLER’s most recent book is Makers of Modern Architecture,…3 min

IN THIS ISSUECONTRIBUTORSJOHN BANVILLE’s latest novel is Mrs. Osmond. CHRISTOPHER R. BROWNING is Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent book is Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp. MICHAEL CHABON lives and works in Berkeley and Los Angeles. SARAH CHURCHWELL is a Professor of American literature and humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her book Behold America: The Entangled History of “America First” and “The American Dream” was published last year. J.M. COETZEE is Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of seventeen works of fiction, as well as numerous works of criticism and translation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. MARTIN FILLER’s most recent book…3 min

IN THIS ISSUETHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNOW IN PAPERBACK IJEOMA OLUO SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE “With her bold combination of directness and empathy, Oluo offers us a reset, a starting point, a clear way forward.”—dream hampton, filmmaker, writer, activist, and executive producer of Surviving R.Kelly “Oluo is the smartest, most courageous and electrifying young writer on race relations today—the voice of our times. Let her be your guidepost.”—Robin Diangelo, author of White Fragility “Oluo’s mandate is clear and powerful: change will not come unless we are brave enough to name and remove the many forces at work strangling freedom.”—Darnell L.Moore, author of No Ashes in the Fire sealpress.com…1 min

IN THIS ISSUETHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNOW IN PAPERBACKIJEOMA OLUOSO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE“With her bold combination of directness and empathy, Oluo offers us a reset, a starting point, a clear way forward.”—dream hampton, filmmaker, writer, activist, and executive producer of Surviving R.Kelly“Oluo is the smartest, most courageous and electrifying young writer on race relations today—the voice of our times. Let her be your guidepost.”—Robin Diangelo, author of White Fragility“Oluo’s mandate is clear and powerful: change will not come unless we are brave enough to name and remove the many forces at work strangling freedom.”—Darnell L.Moore, author of No Ashes in the Firesealpress.com…1 min

IN THIS ISSUE‘Ulysses’ on TrialThis essay will appear in somewhat different form in Fight of the Century, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, to be published by Simon and Schuster in 2020 to coincide with the centennial anniversary of the American Civil Liberties Union. It was a setup: a stratagem worthy of wily Ulysses himself. The conspirators were Bennett Cerf, publisher and cofounder of Random House, and Morris Ernst, a cofounder of the ACLU and its chief legal counsel. The target was United States antiobscenity law. The bait was a single copy of an English-language novel, printed in Dijon by Frenchmen who could not understand a word of it, bound in bright blue boards, and sold mail-order by the celebrated Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company. When Cerf and Ernst first began to conspire…20 min

IN THIS ISSUE‘Ulysses’ on TrialThis essay will appear in somewhat different form in Fight of the Century, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, to be published by Simon and Schuster in 2020 to coincide with the centennial anniversary of the American Civil Liberties Union.It was a setup: a stratagem worthy of wily Ulysses himself.The conspirators were Bennett Cerf, publisher and cofounder of Random House, and Morris Ernst, a cofounder of the ACLU and its chief legal counsel. The target was United States antiobscenity law. The bait was a single copy of an English-language novel, printed in Dijon by Frenchmen who could not understand a word of it, bound in bright blue boards, and sold mail-order by the celebrated Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company. When Cerf and Ernst first began to conspire in 1931,…21 min

Issue September 26, 2019 - The New York Review of Books (2024)

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