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Our 11/19 issue is now online, with @fotoole on Andy Burnham’s communion, @mrkocnnll on JD Vance’s overweening ambition, @MelissEAnderson on Tally Brown’s underground, Vivian Gornick on affordable housing, @brhodes on Biden’s dereliction of Gaza, and more. go.nybooks.com/3WhuTWw
“Ellen Harvey has always been interested in disrupting our experience of beauty.” —Jé Wilson go.nybooks.com/4zsV5MI
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“Recurring fixations emerge across her work: language’s quirks and failures, the play of black and white, scenes from early childhood, an intense love of family, French culture, Korean history.” —Spencer Lee-Lenfield on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha go.nybooks.com/4BD57fv
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Aslı Ü. Bâli and Aziz Rana on the midterms, the US, and the world
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Rozina Ali on the Michigan Senate race, “arguably the most Islamophobic in US history” go.nybooks.com/3WYZFnk
David Treuer on remaking the American system go.nybooks.com/3VhqHWD
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Between Hegseth's mission-accomplished comments earlier and Condi Rice at the Economic Club striking a hopeful Mideast note, worth reiterating:
Trump’s Washington sounds a lot like the D.C. of the Bush era.
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Sue Halpern on the North Country at the ballot box go.nybooks.com/3WtvlkI
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“Consider the Oyster, which [M.F.K. Fisher] dedicated to Dillwyn Parrish, is a pearl: something lovely and gleaming that both eased his suffering and would not have existed without it.” —Anne Fadiman go.nybooks.com/3Wz2mff
Lily Geismer on the legacy of the Watergate Babies go.nybooks.com/4As7PmW
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David Cole on people power in the midterms go.nybooks.com/4iM3l3i
By the early 1900s “the serial format popularized by Dickens had largely died out in Britain and America, and most serious writers of literature seem to have shared Henry James’s desire to keep their pages free from other people’s images.” —Ruth Bernard Yeazell go.nybooks.com/4j7l6v3
“Opportunistic money [in campaign financing] is agile precisely because it lacks roots, but its rootlessness is also why it struggles to hold ground.” —Jake Bernstein go.nybooks.com/3UyYGJS
“[Their] increasingly bold actions made the Red Brigades front-page news but also isolated them from the proletariat in whose name they claimed to be acting.” —Alexander Stille go.nybooks.com/3UBL3tc
In her settlement house on Jones Street, Mary K. Simkhovitch championed the idea that “housing...[should] be made as livable for the working class as it might be for the middle class.” —Vivian Gornick go.nybooks.com/4eKcXdq
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“Among the American national security and political class, the belief that you can’t challenge Israel is so entrenched that officials experience support for Israel not as a choice but as incontestable.” —@brhodes go.nybooks.com/4AagIRB
The scandal over a much-praised author’s alleged AI use, writes Ursula Lindsey (@ursulind), “has exposed many currents of suspicion, mistrust, and confusion that flow through the world of French letters.” go.nybooks.com/3UvFTyU
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The uses and misuses of “books for boys” in our fraught political moment? I wonder if there’s an essay about that… nybooks.com/online/2026/04/1…
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Jensen Huang reportedly instructed his team at Nvidia "never to think about" planning for a Taiwan contingency.
Despite the fact that their business is reliant on TSMC.
The Jensen-Megaspeed mess really puts these incredible — and barely-noticed — details from Stephen Witt's The Thinking Machine in a new light:
Huang refuses to consider the impact on his global business if China were to blockade or invade Taiwan, despite the regular threats emanating from Beijing to do just that. “To my great surprise, Nvidia had done no contingency planning for this eventuality,” Witt writes.
He quotes Deb Shoquist, Nvidia’s executive vice-president of operations: “If something happens to Taiwan and TSMC, the ramifications are so large it’s almost like asking me what I’d do if California fell into the ocean.” Huang had instructed her “never to think about this question.”
—from my @nybooks essay earlier this year on Nvidia and American policy toward China: nybooks.com/articles/2026/02…
—more thoughts from me today: juliangewirtz.substack.com/p…
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I wrote a quick reaction to Abdul El-Sayed’s win despite the deluge of Islamophobic attacks. For @nybooks
