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The New York Review of Books

The Race That Can’t Be Won

‘The Death of Some Ideal’

Slip

Music and Memory

Scapegoating the Immigrant

Happy Island of Psalters and Cucumbers

Torture in Israel’s Prisons

Mythic Chaps

The Fact Man

The Problems with Polls

Speaking the Unspeakable

The Artificiality of Nations

What the Ocean Holds

A Constitution Nowhere and Everywhere

The Father-Daughter Dance

Lifer

Grant vs. the Klan

‘Deviations and Catastrophes’

Under the Spotlight

Letters