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New on nybooks.com: On the NYRblog, a love story set in the occupied West Bank, art inspired by outer space, Putin’s dilemma, and the third part in a series on ideology and the Ukrainian revolution. From the Review, a speech by Angela Merkel on surveillance, freedom, and cooperation, and what’s missing from the new biography of Paul de Man.
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David Shulman
In Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad’s powerful film Omar, innocence and complicity are profoundly intertwined in the mind of a person who is struggling to survive, to love, and to maintain dignity in conditions where there is no longer any hope.
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Timothy Snyder
In his March 4 press conference, Putin claimed that the Ukrainian state no longer exists as such, and therefore is not protected by treaties or law. This is quite a radical position, recalling the conclusions that Nazi lawyers drew about Poland after the German invasion in 1939.
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Amy Knight
The toppling of Yanukovych, an autocratic leader whose government was plagued by corruption, hits dangerously close to home for Putin. The large-scale demonstrations against the Russian government just over two years ago are doubtless on the minds of senior Putin advisers.
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J. Hoberman
Two New York exhibitions feature art inspired by 1960s and 1970s science fiction films.
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Angela Merkel
Trust is the basis for peace and friendship between peoples. Even more, trust is the basis for the cooperation of allied nations. When we proceed as if the ends justify the means, when we do everything that is technologically possible, we damage trust; we sow mistrust. In the end there is less, not more, security.
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Peter Brooks
In The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith created high drama from imposture: the almost unbearable tension of suspense that comes with living a double life. That novel seems to have inspired Evelyn Barish’s notion of how to write the biography of Paul de Man.
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April 1: Robert Silvers, Peter Brown, Yasmine El Rashidi, Haleh Esfandiari, and Shaul Bakhash examine the living traditions of the Islamic world in the setting of modern conflict and variations in Muslim culture.
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