New on nybooks.com: In the Review’s June 23 issue, Edward Mendelson considers six books about psychological life in the smartphone era, and Malise Ruthven reviews two books about uprisings and war in the Arab world. On the NYR Daily, Masha Gessen reads the Italian graphic novelist Igort’s stories from Ukraine, and Sara Lipton offers a new interpretation of a famous medieval doodle.
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In the Depths of the Digital Age
Edward Mendelson
The explicit common theme of these six books is the newly public world in which practically everyone’s lives are newly accessible and offered for display.
How to Understand ISIS
Malise Ruthven
On The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East by Marc Lynch and ISIS: A History by Fawaz Gerges
Drawing the Iron Curtain
Masha Gessen
The stories that Igort collected in Ukraine are an undigested mass, often a mess. This is a good thing.
The First Anti-Jewish Caricature?
Sara Lipton
It is a mistake to see in this cartoon only, or even primarily, an indictment of Jewish greed and infidelity.
Also in the June 23 issue: Joan Acocella on Shuffl
Calendar
Mark Lee Ping-Bing
MoMA,
June 16–30
June 16–30
Crime Stories
Met,
through June 21
through June 21
Tikkun
Select theaters,
through June 24
through June 24
