Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

 

New on nybooks.com: Michael Scammell on a new version of Arthur Koestler’s finest novel, Jeremy Waldron on classifying Supreme Court justices, Zoë Heller on Hillary Clinton, Tim Parks on the paradox of translation, and Masha Gessen on Russia’s mafia state. Sponsored by University of North Carolina Press

 

In the Review

 

A Different ‘Darkness at Noon’ Michael Scammell After 75 years, a remarkable discovery: an original German manuscript of the novel

 

On the Supreme Court Battlefield Jeremy Waldron Cass Sunstein’s Constitutional Personae:the heroes, the soldiers, the minimalists, and the mutes

Hillary & Women Zoë Heller As a woman president, she tells us, she wouldn’t just work for radical change, she would be radical change

 

Coming in the April 7 issue: Nicholas Kristof on China’s one-child policy, Robert Gottlieb on Dorothy Parker, David Shulman on Israel and Palestine, and more

 

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The Translation Paradox Tim Parks Glory, for the translator, is borrowed glory. Translators are celebrated when they translate celebrated books

 

Putin: The Rule of the Family Masha Gessen The murder of Mikhail Lesin is probably the strongest evidence to date that Russia is a mafia state

How Did This Happen? Elizabeth Drew The Accidental Beauties Francine Prose Raucous Coney Island J. Hoberman

 

Calendar

 

‘Strange Victory’ The most ambitious leftist film made in the US between 1942 and 1954

‘Asylum’​ Christopher Payne documents the decay of state mental hospitals

Alexander Calder An exhibition emphasizes the artist’s genre-crossing experiments