The New York Review of Books - 23 07 2020

56 Pages·2020·31.6 MB·English

World Literature
in Translation

A dazzling collection of classics from around the world

“A masterful translation
of a crucial classic.”
—Rachel Hadas, author of
Strange Relation

Considered to be the first
European novel, this racy
masterpiece tells a timeless
story of love and tragedy.

“Terrific and stunningly
interesting.”
—Wendy Doniger, author of
The Bedtrick

A rare and authentic
selection of the finest
works in medieval Celtic
literature.

“A material epic with an
astonishing fidelity to
history.”
—New York Times Book Review

A superb, peerless
translation of Greece’s
greatest lyric poet.

www.ucpress.edu

Jason DeParle on Child Poverty

July 23, 2020 / Volume LXVII, Number 12

FINTAN O’TOOLE: AMERICA’S BROKEN PROMISES
GARY YOUNGE: BLACK LIVES MATTER ABROAD
RACHEL DONADIO: FRANCE’S COVID CRISIS
SARAH SEO: THE DANGERS OF DRIVING WHILE BLACK

FICTION ISSUE

LEILA SLIMANI • BEN LERNER • CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON • SUN RA
CARSON MCCULLERS • ALICE OSWALD • JAMES MCBRIDE • MIRANDA POPKEY
JAIME HERNANDEZ • H.G. WELLS • ARIANA HARWICZ • FRANCINE J. HARRIS

“Stone lays it out—
what it took for him to get
to where he hoped to be—
a successful writer/director
working in Hollywood;
the road it took is hard AF.
BRAVO. BRAVO.
BRAVO.”

— SPIKE LEE

“Stone is one of
the world’s greatest
filmmakers . . .
He pricks the bubbles
of the namby-pambies.
He provokes outrage.
He stirs up controversy.
Oliver Stone is larger than
life. Chasing the Light
says it all.”

— SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS

“A deeply personal
journey of desire,
success and failure and
ultimately success.”

— JULIAN SCHNABEL
“A compelling
coming-of-age story
by the filmmaker who most
courageously exposed the
conceits and deceits of the
American Empire in decline.”

— ROBERT SCHEER,
THE NATION

“The battle for the
soul of our ideal
nation is not won yet,
but this honest and
passionate account of
one man’s determination
inspires all of us who will
never give up.”

— ROBERT THURMAN,
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

“Oliver Stone’s
story is the story
of my generation
writ large.”

— PAUL SCHRADER,
screenwriter of Taxi Driver

Also available as an
audiobook read by
OLIVER STONE

AVAILABLE JULY 21, 2020

WRITER.DIRECTOR.
SOLDIER.OSCAR®WINNER.
REBEL.

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Contents

4
Anne Enright
Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey
Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff
8
Gary Younge
What Black America Means to Europe
10
Ursula Lindsey
Adèle by Leila Slimani, translated from the French by Sam Taylor
The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani, translated from the French by Sam Taylor
Sex and Lies by Leila Slimani, translated from the French by Sophie Lewis
Le Pays des Autres: Première Partie: La guerre, la guerre, la guerre by Leila Slimani
13
David Cole
Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent
and Makes America More Unequal by Alexandra Natapoff
Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration by Rachel Elise Barkow
16
Michael Gorra
Constance Fenimore Woolson: Collected Stories edited by Anne Boyd Rioux
18
Rachel Donadio
France: After Lockdown, the Street
21
Ben Lerner
Poem
22
Esther Allen
The Gringa by Andrew Altschul
25
Fintan O’Toole
Unpresidented
28
Namwali Serpell
Sun Ra: ‘I’m Everything and Nothing’
30
Regina Marler
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
33
Jason DeParle
Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty by Jeff Madrick
A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty a report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,
edited by Greg Duncan and Suzanne Le Menestrel
38
Colin Grant
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
40
Ange Mlinko
Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea by Alice Oswald
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
Memorial: A Version of Homer’s ‘Iliad’ by Alice Oswald, with an afterword by Eavan Boland
Weeds and Wild Flowers by Alice Oswald, with etchings by Jessica Greenman
Spacecraft Voyager I: New and Selected Poems by Alice Oswald
42
Mark Mazower
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History by Richard J. Evans
Meet Me in Buenos Aires: A Memoir by Marlene Hobsbawm, with an introduction by Claire Tomalin
45
Sarah A. Seo
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor
47
Dan Nadel
Is This How You See Me? by Jaime Hernandez
Tonta by Jaime Hernandez
49
francine j. harris
Poem
50
Maya Jasanoff Inventing Tomorrow: H.G. Wells and the Twentieth Century by Sarah Cole
52
Daniel J. Kevles Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban
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On the cover: Kerry James Marshall, Bang, 1994 (© Kerry James Marshall/Jack Shainman Gallery, New York). The drawing on page 26 is by John Springs. The draw-
ings on pages 52 and 54 are by Tom Bachtell. The painting by Max Beckmann on page 41 is © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
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