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New on nybooks.com: Why the Queen remains popular in Britain, how to think about the deal with Iran, four books on Pakistan, George Perec’s lost novel, David Cronenberg’s Los Angeles, and when the Ukrainian war came to two poets.
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Zoë Heller
Even as her children and grandchildren have succumbed to the lure of self-expression and self-exposure, the Queen has maintained her potency as a symbol by revealing almost nothing of her personhood.
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Jessica T. Mathews
What should Americans think of the nuclear deal with Iran? By definition, a negotiated agreement is imperfect. Judging this one begins and ends with clarity about what choices are truly before us. That has a simple answer: there are only two alternatives.
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Ahmed Rashid
The country has for years been under partial military rule, outright martial law, or military authority disguised as presidential rule. But the arrangement that has evolved over the last six months is the strangest so far.
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David Bellos
He didn’t know much about real life. His fingers brought forth only ghosts. Maybe that was all he was good for. Age-old techniques that served no purpose, that referred only to themselves. Magic fingers.
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Francine Prose
What’s exciting about Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg and Bruce Wagner’s new film, is the inventiveness and ease with which it stakes out a dark corner of territory under the California sun.
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Tim Judah
From her childhood, Olena had thought that it would be amazing to be a war correspondent and go cover conflicts in other countries. “But unfortunately the war came to me.”
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