Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

New on nybooks.com: From our January 14 issue, the danger of ISIS in Gaza, what Mikhail Baryshnikov learned from Joseph Brodsky, and how the rich evade taxes. Plus a review of The Revenant, reading Obama on T.S. Eliot, and Jean Dubuffet’s art of instinct. Sponsored by Reaktion Books

​ ISIS in Gaza Sarah Helm The green flags of Hamas could yet be engulfed in the black flags of ISIS. ​

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​ A Ghost Story Joan Acocella Brodsky and Baryshnikov ​

​ Parking the Big Money Cass R. Sunstein The scourge of tax havens ​

 

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Also in the January 14 issue: Michael Massing on how journalism should cover the 1%, Jed Perl on Rodin and Picasso, Garry Wills on Augustine, Gordon Wood on Hamilton

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​ Bearman Christopher Benfey Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio ​

 

​ Obama as Literary Critic Edward Mendelson When 22-year-old Obama wrote on T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land ​

​ The Art of Instinct Nicole Rudick Jean Dubuffet and art brut’s “ecstasies of the mind”