Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

 

New on nybooks.com: Ingrid Rowland on architect Frank Gehry, Mark Lilla on four books about France and terror, Dan Chiasson on poet Eileen Myles, Elizabeth Drew on the campaign, and Francine Prose on artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss.

 

In the March 24 issue

 

The Frank Gehry Story Ingrid D. Rowland

 

Crossing the Invisible Line Dan Chiasson Eileen Myles’s poems set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match

How the French Face Terror Mark Lilla A country going through the classic stages of trauma: denial, anger, negotiation, and depression

 

Also in the issue: Garry Wills on reading the Koran, Tim Parks on Jhumpa Lahiri’s Italian adventure, Jessica Mathews on treaties in an era of partisan polarization, and more

 

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How Did This Happen?​ Elizabeth Drew

 

The Accidental Beauties Francine Prose The playful and sincere, banal and profound work of artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss

More on the NYR Daily Kamakura Statues Andrew Butterfield Early Soviet Photography Jamey Gambrell Spotlight Garry Wills Self-Immolation in Tibet Tsering Woeser

 

Calendar

 

Chantal Akerman A free event with film clips and reminiscences from colleagues, students, and fellow filmmakers (Walter Reade, Mar 19)

Vigée Le Brun​ A exhibition of perhaps the most gifted French portraitist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries (Met, until May 15)

The Double Man​ Mark Wing-Davey reprises his role as W.H. Auden in this rarely performed one-man show (Public Theater, Mar 28)