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New on nybooks.com: From the December 19 issue of the Review, Jonathan Steele on the Kurds, Daniel Mendelsohn on Hanya Yanagihara, and Richard Holmes on the greatness of William Blake. On the NYR Daily, Priyamvada Natarajan on exciting discoveries in the cosmos, Amy Knight on Putin and the crash of Flight 9268, and Tim Parks on reading as self-discovery.
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Jonathan Steele
Anyone searching for a sliver of light in the darkness of the Syrian catastrophe has no better place to go than the country’s northeast. There some 2.2 million Kurds have created a quasi state that is astonishingly safe—and strangely unknown abroad.
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Daniel Mendelsohn
Both the tediousness of Hanya Yanagihara’sA Little Life and, you imagine, the guilty pleasures it holds for some readers are those of a teenaged rap session, that adolescent social ritual par excellence, in which the same crises and hurts are constantly rehearsed.
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Richard Holmes
There are many William Blakes, but mine arrived with the tigers in the 1960s. The first line I ever read by Blake was not in a book, but laid out in thick white paint (or should I say illuminated) along a brick wall in Silver Street, Cambridge, England, in 1968.
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Priyamvada Natarajan
We can only speculate on how new instruments such as the Webb Space Telescope will change our view of the cosmos near and far. One thing we can be sure of—much of our understanding of the universe will be transformed.
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Amy Knight
Why would the Kremlin want the FBI involved in the investigation of the crash of flight 9268, a case that could seriously compromise public support for Russia’s Syria campaign?
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Tim Parks
I live under the constant impression that other people, other readers, are allowing themselves to be hoodwinked. They are falling for charms they shouldn’t fall for.
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