The New York Review of Books - 19 11 2020

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Contents

4
Clair Wills
Say Something Back and Time Lived, Without Its Flow by Denise Riley,
with an afterword by Max Porter
The Anatomy of Grief by Dorothy P. Holinger
10
On the Election—I
Jerry Brown, Christopher R. Browning, Deborah Eisenberg, Ben Fountain,
Ian Frazier, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed
16
Valeria Luiselli
Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art,
New York City
Catalog of the exhibition by Sarah Hermanson Meister, with contributions
from Julie Ault, Kimberly Juanita Brown, River Encalada Bullock, and ten others
20
Sandra Lim
Poem
21
Caroline Fraser
This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
by Ilhan Omar with Rebecca Paley
24
Ben Lerner
Poem
25
David W. Blight
Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
by David Zucchino
28
Andrew Delbanco
The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television by Koren Shadmi
31
Pankaj Mishra
Grand Illusions
33
Jenny Offill
Red Pill by Hari Kunzru
35
Mark Danner
The Con He Rode In On
38
Barbara Demick
City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong by Antony Dapiran
Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, with contributions
by Amy Hawkins
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now
by Joshua Wong, with Jason Y. Ng, with an introduction by Ai Weiwei
Democracy in China: The Coming Crisis by Jiwei Ci
42
Gary Saul Morson
The Nose and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol, translated from the Russian
by Susanne Fusso
49
Nathan Whitlock
Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada
by Esyllt W. Jones
Is Two- Tier Health Care the Future? edited by Colleen M. Flood and Bryan Thomas
Better Now: Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians
by Danielle Martin
52
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi
The Revival of Church Sanctuary
55
On the Election—II
Sue Halpern, Ishion Hutchinson, Jackson Lears, Lili Loofbourow, Ange Mlinko,
Astra Taylor, and Gary Younge
62
Letters from
Paul Reitter, Chad Wellmon, Peter E. Gordon, David Eltis, and Fara Dabhoiwala
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On the cover: Dorothea Lange, End of Shift, Richmond, California, 1942. This photograph and the one at the bottom of page 18 are © The Dorothea Lange Col-
lection, the Oakland Museum of California, Gift of Paul S. Taylor. The painting on page 10 is © Mamma Andersson/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/
Bildupphovsrätt, Sweden. The drawings on pages 11, 12, 14, 56, and 60 are by Saul Steinberg, © The Saul Steinberg Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New
York. The sculpture on page 31 is © Yinka Shonibare CBE, All Rights Reserved, DACS/ARS, NY 2020. The drawings on page 32 are by David Levine. The etching
by Marc Chagall on page 42 is © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
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