Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tuesday 29 July 2014


What’s new on nybooks.com: The dilemma of liberal Zionism, technology and higher education, how gay marriage won, the Roberts Court’s defining issue, a newly discovered memoir of the World War I battlefields, and the end of federal monitoring of elections.
 
THIS ISSUE SPONSORED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
 
Jonathan Freedland
On Ari Shavit’s My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
 
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David Bromwich
How much do we want teaching and learning to resemble a video game?
 
Edmund White
Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality?
 
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David Cole
The Roberts Court has favored rules that make it more difficult to pursue justice in the courts.
 
The NYRB Summer Sale: Olivia ManningMavis GallantAlberto Moravia, and more at 40% off
 
Steven H. Wright
In November, voters will have less recourse against election-day misconduct than at any time since the Civil Rights era.
 
Béla Zombory-Moldován
An excerpt from a recently discovered memoir of World War I by a Hungarian artist, published here for the first time