The New York Review of Books - 13 02 2020

44 Pages·2020·31.87 MB·English

Elaine Blair on Ben Lerner
Elaine Blair on Ben Lerner

February 13, 2020
February 13, 2020 / Volume LXVII, Number 2
/ Volume LXVII, Number 2

Steven Simon: Trump vs. Iran

Jessica Mathews: Do the Dems Have a Foreign Policy?

David Oshinsky: Traumas of Combat

Anne Diebel on Ronan Farrow and Me Too
Kwame Anthony Appiah on Claude Lévi-Strauss
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis on Romare Bearden

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Contents

4
Anne Diebel Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

9
Ruth Padel Poem
10
Sanford Schwartz Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet an exhibition at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York City
Catalog of the exhibition by Dita Amory, Ann Dumas, Patrick McGuinness,
Belinda Thomson, Philippe Büttner, Katia Poletti, and Christian Rümelin

12
Jessica T. Mathews Do the Democrats Have a Foreign Policy?
15
Elaine Blair The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
18
Kwame Anthony Appiah Lévi-Strauss: A Biography by Emmanuelle Loyer, translated from the French
by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff
Claude Lévi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought by Maurice Godelier,
translated from the French by Nora Scott
21
David Oshinsky Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military’s Mental Health Crisis
by David Kieran
23
Dan Chiasson The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering
Thomas Wyatt by Peter Murphy
25
Adam Tooze The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
by Katharina Pistor
28
Robert Irwin The World of the Crusades: An Illustrated History by Christopher Tyerman
Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands by Dan Jones
The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades
by Roger Crowley

30
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden
by Mary Schmidt Campbell
The Romare Bearden Reader edited by Robert G. O’Meally
32
Geoffrey Wheatcroft Boris Johnson: The Opportunist Triumphant

36
Ruth Margalit The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy

39
Steven Simon The Middle East: Trump Blunders In
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On the cover: Félix Vallotton: I: The Trench (detail), 1915 (Cabinet d’arts graphiques, Musées d’art et d’histoire, Geneva). The drawing on page 4 is by Tom
Bachtell. The drawings on pages 32 and 34 are by John Springs. The drawing on page 40 is by Pancho. The artworks on pages 30 and 31 are © 2020 Romare Bearden
Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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