Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

New on nybooks.com: In our June 19 issue, Patrick Leigh Fermor’s final work, the provocations of the Italian Futurists, and the “amateurism” of Charles Ives. On the blogs, the second season of Orange Is the New Black, the novel in an age of distraction, India’s newspaper boom, photographs of the Atlantic Wall ruins, and a new book suffused with the spirit of the doodle.

Leigh Fermor’s Inspired Voyage Daniel Mendelsohn The greatest travel writer of the 20th century?   ADVERTISEMENT   Speed in Life and Death Jonathan Galassi The Italian Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young.   Ives Wins! Jeremy Denk Sometimes all the craft in the world is trumped by an artist with something important to say.   ADVERTISEMENT   Caged Laughter April Bernard Ambivalence about Orange Is the New Black   Reading: The Struggle Tim Parks In an era of distraction, what happens to elegant prose, conceptual delicacy, complexity?   India After English? Samanth Subramanian Narendra Modi’s sweeping win in India coincides with a rise in non-English newspapers.   Hitler’s Mighty Miscalculation Malise Ruthven The ruined fortifications that still litter Europe’s Atlantic coastline are monuments to failure.   Parasites in Eden Gabriel Winslow-Yost The comedy, horror, and wonder of cartoonist Jesse Jacobs’s Safari Honeymoon