Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Sunday reading on nybooks.com: Notes to the actors in Wolf Hall, Yeats, Heaney, Calvino and the Tarot, Hayek’s fascination with John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, a poem by the late Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer, the Christianity of Pope Francis, and video from our conference “What’s Wrong with the Economy—and with Economics?”   THIS ISSUE SPONSORED BY AUCTIONATA

How to Play ‘Wolf Hall’ Hilary Mantel Anne Boleyn: You will never be loved by the English people. Does that matter? Not really. What Henry’s inner circle thinks of you matters far more. But do you realize this? Reputation management is not your strong point. Charm only thinly disguises your will to win.   ADVERTISEMENT   Tarot Dreams Christopher Benfey We want our daily experiences, so ordinary and frequently chaotic, to be magnified, as Sebald says they are in dreams. We want them to have a dramatic narrative, a coherent shape, a palpable vividness, which the Tarot can provide.   John & Harriet: Still Mysterious Cass R. Sunstein How was it that Friedrich Hayek, of all people, became captivated by the love story of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor? And does that romance have anything to do with liberalism and liberty?   ADVERTISEMENT   Solitude (I) Tomas Tranströmer I was nearly killed here, one night in February. My car shivered, and slewed sideways on the ice, right across into the other lane. The slur of traffic came at me with their lights.… (In memory of Tomas Tranströmer)   What’s Wrong with the Economy—and with Economics? We are pleased to present a full video recording from the recent conference sponsored by The New York Review of Books Foundation, Fritt Ord, and the Dan David Prize.   The Pope Is a Christian! Garry Wills At a recent I talk I gave about Pope Francis, a man asked me, “Why do more non-Catholics like the pope than Catholics do?” He was wrong, of course.