Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

 

In the Review’s May 26 issue, Joan Didion publishes her notes from reporting on the Patty Hearst trial in 1976. In the archives, James Traub reviews The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire by Gwenda Blair, and Jason Epstein remembers his friend Jane Jacobs, who was born 100 years ago today. On the NYR Daily, Timothy Snyder writes about the Polish ruling party’s efforts to cancel a museum devoted to global perspectives on World War II. Sponsored by The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

 

California Notes Joan Didion This is not about Patricia Hearst. It is about me and the peculiar vacuum in which I grew up…

 

Golden Boy James Traub He’s not going to go away. We might as well accept the fact that Donald Trump is the price you pay for living in a marketplace culture.  (2000)

New York: The Prophet Jason Epstein She rescued Soho and much of Greenwich Village from ruin fifty years ago by city planners and developers saturated with high-rise ideology.  (2009)

 

Poland vs. History Timothy Snyder Plans for the most ambitious museum devoted to World War II in any country are threatened by the country’s new ruling party.