Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Monday 9 February 2015


Sunday reading on nybooks.com: Darryl Pinckney on some different ways of looking at Selma,J. Hoberman on the art and provocations of Tomi Ungerer, Timothy Garton Ash on the “assassin’s veto,” and Oliver Sacks on when our memories deceive.
 
Darryl Pinckney
A film based on a historical subject, even a beautifully shot one, can remind us without meaning to that although reading in the US is a minority activity, the book is still the only medium in which you can make a complicated argument.
 
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J. Hoberman
The work of graphic artist and illustrator Tomi Ungerer has been part of many people’s childhoods, others’ countercultures, still others’ outrage, and, at one point in his career, every straphanger’s New York.
 
Timothy Garton Ash
Defeating the assassin’s veto is one of the great challenges of our time. Among the questions that arise is whether or not to republish images at which fanatics have chosen to take such violent offense that they murder those who made them.
 
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Oliver Sacks
It is startling to realize that some of our most cherished memories may never have happened—or may have happened to someone else. (2013)
 
IN THE REVIEW’S FEBRUARY 19 ISSUE
Dan Chiasson on Bob Dylan, Jed Perl on Duane Michals, Francine Proseon Anne Tyler, Robert Paxton on the Paris Commune, Michael Gorra on Donald Antrim, Robert Pogue Harrison on Dante, Elizabeth Drew on the Republicans, Eamon Duffy on the pope, and more.