Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

New on nybooks.com: Julia Preston on Mexican-Americans and the 2016 election, Ingrid Rowland on the sublime drawings of Andrea del Sarto, Kirill Gerstein on the deeply humane playing of pianist Radu Lupu, and Tim Parks on the difficulty for a writer of doing something seriously new.   SPONSORED BY THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY

The Truth About Mexican-Americans Julia Preston With his complaint that Mexico is “not sending us the right people,” Donald Trump has potentially picked a fight with as many as 34 million Mexican immigrants or Mexican-Americans. How will Latinos respond?   ADVERTISEMENT   Sublime, Exhilarating del Sarto Ingrid D. Rowland Like Brunelleschi before him and Benvenuto Cellini after, Andrea del Sarto trained first as a goldsmith. Long before he touched gold, however, he had learned to draw.   Happy Birthday, Radu Lupu! Kirill Gerstein Trying to understand Lupu’s phrasing, timing, or the effect his bear-like posture at the keyboard has on the sound yields only partial results. The whole is greater than the sum of its ingredients.   ADVERTISEMENT   A Novel Kind of Conformity Tim Parks Is it really possible to be free as a writer? Free from an immediate need for money, free from the need to be praised, free from the concern of how those close to you will respond to what you write, free from your publisher’s eagerness for a book that looks like the last?   FILM J. Hoberman: A Married Woman was one of the more controversial films of Godard’s early career—and, because of poor distribution, has been one of the least revived (BAM, December 4–6)   ART Christopher Benfey: Ahorizon-expanding exhibitionat the Museum of Fine Arts shows that the prodigious appetite for Asian luxury goods began centuries before Commodore Perry (Boston, through February 15)