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Tottenham will be impressed by Luka Vuskovic’s insane stats this season

One Tottenham teenager, Luka Vuskovic, is posting some incredible numbers out on loan this season, which Spurs fans will surely be excited about. 17-year-old Luka... The post Tottenham will be impressed by Luka Vuskovic’s insane stats this season appeared first on Spurs Web.

The New York Review of Books 

Unsinkable Paris

One evening during the Summer Olympics last August, I wandered through central Paris at dusk with a friend. We watched on a café TV as the American sprinter Noah Lyles narrowly won the hundred-meter dash and became the fastest man in the world, then we continued down the stately rue de Rivoli and through the […]

The New York Review of Books 

Dispirited Away

Eliza Griswold, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, begins her latest book, Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church, by announcing her method as “immersion journalism.” The technique, she suggests, is “unruly,” akin to climbing into a stranger’s car and going along for the ride, wherever it takes her. The […]

The New York Review of Books 

‘Never Too Much’

Something has gone terribly wrong. In his 2004 book Why Globalization Works, the economics journalist Martin Wolf wrote that “liberal democracy is the only political and economic system capable of generating sustained prosperity and political stability.” He was articulating the elite consensus of the time, a belief that liberal democratic capitalism was not only a […]

The New York Review of Books 

Passion’s Countervoices

Balzac’s The Lily in the Valley gives full-throated voice to romantic passion and at the same time contains it, inflating its rhetoric while ironizing it.

The New York Review of Books 

The Kitchen

sky and congestion    up ahead—why wait in line    with this chewed boot, this cold breakfast river below    and everywhere the straight face    of a season passing— long mile    separates ice from ice             here—maybe            a whole work— knife cut, bleached peppers,    vinegar and light round clock    is a loose knot in time    a plain devotion

The New York Review of Books 

Chaos and Treasure

No artist has tried harder to get photographs and text to bring each other urgently to life than Jim Goldberg.

The New York Review of Books 

Player Piano

My face is a case studyin gravity. A face study. A grave.Effaced, I introduce myselfby name, a quippydelegate, ceci Susan,this lifelong stand-in.Named after my motheror rather, the pseudonym that hidher foreign origin. Shoushik.She’d take her breakfaston the balcony. Tehran1943. Feeding the antsand plants her onion-tisanemilk. My little mother.From her ovariescame I. An alloy.Reproduction reproducesinexactly, doesn’t […]

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A Deadly Apathy

A blank indifference to cruelty and atrocity as a normative mode of waging war has infected Israel's collective conscience.

The New York Review of Books 

Far from the Seventies

Two memoirs by women remembering their youthful relationships with older men complicate the definition and implications of “consent.”

The New York Review of Books 

Limitless Space, Endless Motion

When the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky first saw a tape of Balanchine’s Apollo, he watched in disbelief. Here was elegance without exaggeration, tension and beauty without stagy excess.

The New York Review of Books 

Evolution in the Dock

We’ve seen many skirmishes in America’s culture wars over the decades; one recent round, over abortion, was on the ballot in ten states during the 2024 elections. But the most dramatic battle of them all, between two of the twentieth century’s greatest orators, took place in 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, after the high school teacher […]

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Joy and Apprehension in Syria

There is widespread relief after Assad's fall, though no one is more aware than Syrians themselves of the dangers and challenges that await them.

The New York Review of Books 

Rebels Without a Cause

In Sam Gold's Romeo + Juliet, the lovers' headlong rush into marriage is in tension throughout with the surprising regression to childhood that characterizes so much of the production.

The Atlantic  

The Big Thing to Know About Pain

Trying to avoid suffering can paradoxically make it worse. You can train your mind to find a better way.