Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

 

New on nybooks.com: The making of Guernica, the power of Xi Jinping, what Donald Trump thinks about nuclear weapons, and a new, darker Jungle Book. Sponsored by The University of Chicago Press

 

A Different Guernica John Richardson Picasso dealt with the subject of Guernica by personalizing it. Like most of his greatest works, it is pervaded with his own problems and preoccupations.

 

Who Is Xi Jinping? Andrew J. Nathan He was expected to pursue political liberalization and market reform. Instead he has reinstated many of the most dangerous features of Mao’s rule.

The Trump Bomb Jeremy Bernstein I recently offered to tutor Donald Trump on nuclear matters. I began by saying that on these things he did not seem to know his ass from a wheel.

 

Also in the new issue: Jennifer Homans on Balanchine, Patricia Storace on The Winter’s Tale, Willibald Sauerländer on Piero, a poem by Rilke, and much more

 

A Darker Jungle Christopher Benfey The new special-effects-driven The Jungle Book film from Disney is a remake, of course, but a remake of what exactly?

 

Calendar

 

READING Jean Giono’s Hill Paul Eprile and Edmund White discuss a hauntingly timeless novel of Provence

ART Nasreen Mohamedi An enthusiastic traveler, she spent a lifetime searching for austerity in life and art

DANCE Sufjan Stevens and Justin Peck A collaboration between the singer-songwriter and choreographer