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The Roth Biography Scandal Philip Roth: The Biography—the key issue being, Was Roth a misogynist?—when both book and biographer spilled over from the review pages to Page One. “Sexual Assault Allegations Against Biographer Halt Shipping of his Book,” the New York Times announced in April. Several women accused Bailey of predatory behavior. At a Louisiana private school where he had once taught English, he was said to have “groomed” eighth-graders for later of-age seductions to rap...

The focus of the uproar is a video about a Latina intelligence officer, who declares: “I am a cisgender millennial, who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. “I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise,” she says, in the voiceover to a film of her walking confidently through the CIA’s Langley headquarters with a T-shirt emblazoned with a clenched fist motif. “I used to struggle with impostor syndrome, but at 36 I refuse to inter...

Subject: The Review: The Nightmare of History "Is this a plea for historians to be granted some of the moral authority of the traumatized, of the survivor?" Thats Michael Roth, a historian and president of Wesleyan University, commenting on "Can Historians Be Traumatized by History?," an article recently published in The New Republic. Based on that headline, I was initially sympathetic to Roths skepticism. But the article, by James Robins, moved me. It begins with the story of Iris Chang, the...

The difference in Western governments’ reaction to the two episodes suggests a misplaced focus on electoral procedures.

Susan Taubes’s only novel was panned when it was published in 1969. Deborah Levy re-examines the witty story of one woman’s epic quest for freedom

Amnesia nation: To "forget" the Trump era is a toxic act of privilege — and very dangerous "Moving forward" without a public reckoning is an act of willful blindness — and a massive historical mistake January 28, 2021 8:00PM (UTC) A protester holds a Trump flag inside the US Capitol Building near the Senate Chamber on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Bidens 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. A...

Author, David Rieff. Photo by David Sontag Rieff. David Rieff discusses “Divorcing” by Susan Taubes, an autobiographical novel with phantasmagoric components: the reimagined end of a marriage. Now republished by New York Review Books, it was first released just weeks before its author’s early death in 1969. Unlike other experimental novels from the time period, this one is built to last, and it goes all over the place, with a lot of different threads, and a par...