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This week on nybooks.com: From our 50th anniversary issue, Justice Stephen Breyer on why you should read Proust (in French), Sue Halpern on the Internet, Claire Messud on Albert Camus at 100, and Paul Krugman on the climate casino. On the NYRblog, Jonathan Mirsky looks at trade ties between Britain and China and Ingrid Rowland chronicles the decay of Pompeii. Lorrie Moore’s lecture at the New York Public Library, “Watching Television,” is almost sold out: get your tickets while they last.
On Reading Proust An interview with Justice Stephen Breyer “What is most extraordinary about Proust is his ability to capture the subtlest nuances of human emotions, the slightest variations of the mind and the soul. To me, Proust is the Shakespeare of the inner world.”
Are We Puppets in a Wired World? Sue Halpern There is so much that has been good—which is to say useful, entertaining, inspiring, informative, lucrative, fun—about the evolution of the World Wide Web that questions about equity and inequality may seem to be beside the point. But while we were having fun, we happily and willingly helped to create the greatest surveillance system ever imagined.
Camus & Algeria: The Moral Question Claire Messud November 7 of this year marks Camus’s centenary. The artist and essayist—the author of L’Étranger (1942) and L’Homme révolté (1951)—has consistently held the reading public’s admiration and imagination. But his attitudes on the Algerian question remain controversial. The recent publication, for the first time in English, of his Algerian Chronicles affords Camus the belated opportunity to make his own case to the Anglophone public.
Gambling with Civilization Paul Krugman It seems that we have, without knowing it, made an immensely dangerous bet: namely, that we’ll be able to use the power and knowledge we’ve gained in the past couple of centuries to cope with the climate risks we’ve unleashed over the same period.
					The 50th Anniversary Issue Ronald Dworkin on law and morality Zadie Smith on her father Helen Vendler on Marianne Moore Steven Weinberg on the universe Adam Shatz on Charlie Parker Daniel Mendelsohn on Game of Thrones Richard Holmes on John Keats Michael Chabon on Thomas Pynchon J.M. Coetzee on Patrick White T.S. Eliot on Chapman The Review’s first and only editorial and more
Who’s Afraid of Chinese Money? Jonathan Mirsky “China is what it is,” Chancellor George Osborne, Britain’s second-highest official, said last week. Western governments used to go to great lengths to say they were standing up for human rights in China. Now, trade ties with Beijing are so lucrative that Western leaders no longer need to lie.					The Wrong Way for Pompeii Ingrid D. Rowland Pompeii is not only the graveyard of an ancient Roman city; it is also the graveyard of modern good intentions, of layer upon layer of projects that started out in a fanfare of high hopes and died with barely a whimper for lack of funding.
The Robert B. Silvers Lecture Lorrie Moore: “Watching Television” Friday, October 25 at The New York Public Library In this lecture, the acclaimed novelist and critic will examine some of the connections from stage to page to theatre to screen—with an emphasis on narrative on the small screen.