Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

 

Sunday reading on nybooks.com: From the Review’s new issue, Orville Schell looks at Xi Jinping’s purge of “tigers and flies,” and Tim Flannery reviews two books on fracking and climate change. In the archives, revisit Joan Didion’s 1998 article on the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, who was arrested twenty years ago today. On the NYR Daily, Nathaniel Rich reviews Ciro Guerra’s Embrace of the Serpent, and Ahmed Rashid writes about the collapse of relations between the civilian government and army in Pakistan. Sponsored by St. John's College, Santa Fe

 

Crackdown in China Orville Schell Xi Jinping’s anticorruption initiative has morphed into a neo-Maoist-style mass purge of political rivals

 

Fury Over Fracking Tim Flannery The question of whether fracking will exacerbate or ameliorate climate change is complex

An Amazon Without Certainty Nathaniel Rich Ciro Guerra’s Embrace of the Serpent is strange enough to resist the worst of the old jungle quest clichés

 

In the new issue: Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare, Amy Knight on the death of Alexander Litvinenko, Jonathan Freedland on Margaret Thatcher, Martin Filler on the suburbs, Robert Kaiser on Nixon, and more

 

Pakistan: The Army Steps In Ahmed Rashid How the current crisis plays out will be critical to the future of counterterrorism policy—and democracy itself—in south and central Asia