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New on nybooks.com: Martin Filler reviews two new books about the suburbanization of America, and Robert Kaiser reviews four new books about Richard Nixon. A group of scholars protests the Turkish government’s attack on academics. And from the archives, the last interview with Igor Stravinsky, who died on this day forty-five years ago.
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Living Happily Ever After
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The Disaster of Richard Nixon
|  Turkey’s Attack on Teachers
We write to express our dismay at the deterioration of freedoms of expression, association, and personal security faced by our colleagues in Turkish universities and the media.
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More in the April 21 issue: Anatol Lieven on Afghanistan, David Luban on Obama and the law, G.W. Bowersock on Greek and Roman literature, and Ian Johnson on a revolutionary manuscript discovery in China
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 |  Stravinsky: The Last Interview
NYR: How do you feel since your return from the hospital, Mr. Stravinsky?
I.S.: Worse, thank you. And apart from being fleeced, I do not know what happened to me there. (1971) |
Calendar
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 Notfilm
Ross Lipman’s “kino essay" investigates Samuel Beckett’s wordless film short starring Buster Keaton
|  Engines of Liberty
David Cole’s new book focuses on the efforts of ordinary citizens to drive constitutional change
|  Camus in New York
Performances and discussions to mark the 70th anniversary of the writer’s only trip to the United States
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