Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

 

Sunday reading: From the Review’s new issue, James Baldwin and white fear, in his time and ours, Cuba and the Castro regime in transition, and the triumph of Piero della Francesca. Plus on the NYR Daily, a conversation with Yale’s president about race, student protest, and confronting the past. Sponsored by Duke University Press

 

James Baldwin & the Fear of a Nation Nathaniel Rich That his observations about race in America feel as relevant and cutting as ever is as much a testament to his insight as to the level of the current discourse.

 

The Triumph of Piero Willibald Sauerländer His pictures, invested with so much emotion by modern viewers, are based on a computational foundation of mathematics and solid geometry.

Cuba: The Big Change Alma Guillermoprieto Everything is changing, or about to change, or promising to change, because the biggest change of all is about to happen.

 

Race on Campus David Cole and Peter Salovey A conversation with the president of Yale  about student protests and the decision not to rename Calhoun College

 

Calendar

 

ART Degas  For many visitors his landscapes will come as a revelation

DANCE Agon The dances are more about the mechanics of the body than about steps, beauty, or line

ART Van Dyck One feels though that there was nothing he could not have done, had the occasion arisen