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Fintan O’Toole
That such a play is possible at all is one of the great wonders of human creation. That it was written by a liveried servant of a Calvinist king who devoutly believed in salvation and damnation seems almost inexplicable.
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Marcia Angell
Clinical trials can be risky business. There is an inherent tension between the search for scientific answers and concern for the rights and welfare of human subjects.
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Conversations, debates, readings and more from the writers of The New York Review of Books. Now featuring Marilynne Robinson’s conversation with President Obama. Free to subscribe; find it in the iTunes Store.
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Also in the November 19 issue: Colm Tóibín on Francis Bacon, Robert Darnton on Luc Sante’s Paris, Julian Barnes on Jedwabne, Steven Mithen on our ancestor apes,Amy Knight on Stalin’s daughter, Julian Lucas on Marlon James, and much more.
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David Shulman
These days Jerusalem is a sad and scary place. The city center has largely emptied out. Whether you are Jewish Israeli or Palestinian, there is a sense of lurking danger, random, episodic, entirely unpredictable.
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Margaret Scott
A cache of intelligence documents declassified by the CIA this fall offers a new opportunity to revisit the 1965 mass killings in Indonesia, and what the US knew about them.
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Madeleine Schwartz
In her pursuit of strangers, the French artist Sophie Calle presents a kind of artistic Zeno’s paradox: the closer you get to someone else, the more you realize the distance separating you.
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