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New on nybooks.com: Europe’s refugee crisis, the inner lives of animals, and a review by T.S. Eliot, published for the first time. Plus a conversation with Borges, photographs of Nepal before and after the earthquakes, a lusty new Marriage of Figaro, and the paradox of Leon Trotsky.
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Hugh Eakin
At the heart of the crisis is a problem: there are virtually no legal ways for a refugee to travel to Europe. Those seeking protection must take a clandestine journey, which for most would be impossible without smugglers.
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Tim Flannery
We have long asked whether we are alone in the universe. But clearly we are not alone on earth. The evolution of intelligence, of empathy and complex societies, is surely more likely than we have hitherto considered.
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T.S. Eliot
God is certainly essential to some religions, as the King is essential in the game of chess. But the most important things in any religion, and certainly the most important ideas in the Christian religion, are not derivative from the notion of God.
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IN THE OCTOBER 8 ISSUE
Sue Halpern on the dark Net
George Soros on Ukraine and Europe
Francine Prose on Joshua Cohen
Isaiah Berlin on Joe Alsop
Jean Strouse on John Singer Sargent
Joyce Carol Oates on Joan Didion
William Nordhaus on the pope and the market
Timothy Noah on Cesar Chavez
Jacob Weisberg on television vs. the Internet
Gabriel Winslow-Yost on video games
Christopher Browning on the Holocaust
a poem by Apollinaire
AND MORE
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Osvaldo Ferrari: For your personal cult of books, I recall that your favorites includeThe Thousand and One Nights, the Bible and, among many others, the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Jorge Luis Borges: I think that the encyclopedia, for a leisurely, curious man, is the most pleasing of literary genres.
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Kevin Bubriski
These photos, the first series taken in Nepal in the 1980s, and the second after the earthquakes earlier this year, show what has been lost both to time and to natural disaster, and just what an incredible task it will be to rebuild and restore the country.
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Garry Wills
The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s season-opening production of The Marriage of Figaro, directed by Barbara Gaines, lets us know early on that it is going to be a lusty romp.
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William T. Vollmann
Why should you read Bernard Wolfe’s The Great Prince Died: A Novel About the Assassination of Trotsky? What is its project, and how does it go about fulfilling it?
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