Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

New on nybooks.com: In the Review, Mihail Sebastian’s shocking novel For Two Thousand Years, and what we can learn about prison reform from Finland. On the NYR Daily, a rational assessment of the Iran deal, and a report on Uganda’s dubious election. Sponsored by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

 

Surrounded by Jew-Haters John Banville Never has the savagery of which human beings are capable been recorded with such insight, style, gracefulness, and, amazingly, humor.

 

Our Awful Prisons: How They Can Be Changed Adam Hochschild The prison-industrial complex is now as deeply rooted as its military counterpart.

The Iran Deal: Myth and Reality Jeremy Bernstein How successful has it been at limiting Iran’s nuclear capacity and bringing its program under international oversight?

 

The Cost of Fake Democracy Helen Epstein Even President Museveni’s closest Western allies acknowledge that the vote in Uganda was neither free nor fair.

 

Calendar: Film

 

No Home Movie Chantal Akerman’s final statement, a portrait of the artist and her mother

La Magnani A twenty-four-film series devoted to the most Vesuvian of actresses, Anna Magnani

Jia Zhangke Three recent films and a new documentary about the Chinese filmmaker