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The New York Review of Books December 8, 2022

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Rae Armantrout’s books of poems include Conjure and Finalists, which was published last spring. Peter Canby, a former Senior Editor at The New Yorker, is the author of The Heart of the Sky: Travels Among the Maya. Dan Chiasson is at work on Bernie for Burlington: A Biography of His Rise in a Changing Vermont, 1964–1991. He teaches at Wellesley. Fara Dabhoiwala is the author of The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution. He teaches at Princeton and is writing a global history of free speech. Lynn Hunt is Distinguished Research Professor in History at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her books include Inventing Human Rights, Writing History in the Global Era, and, most recently, History: Why It Matters. Mike Jay’s books include Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the…

Rae Armantrout’s books of poems include Conjure and Finalists, which was published last spring. Peter Canby, a former Senior Editor at The New Yorker, is the author of The Heart of the Sky: Travels Among the Maya. Dan Chiasson is at work on Bernie for Burlington: A Biography of His Rise in a Changing Vermont, 1964–1991. He teaches at Wellesley. Fara Dabhoiwala is the author of The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution. He teaches at Princeton and is writing a global history of free speech. Lynn Hunt is Distinguished Research Professor in History at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her books include Inventing Human Rights, Writing History in the Global Era, and, most recently, History: Why It Matters. Mike Jay’s books include Emperors…

The Circuitous Sublime

Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy, translated from the Italian by Tim Parks. New Directions, 101 pp., $13.95 (paper) The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy, translated from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff. New Directions, 89 pp., $13.95 (paper) I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy, translated from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff. New Directions, 115 pp., $14.95 (paper) There is a book that I’ve read and reread maybe six or seven times—it’s only 101 pages long, but I can never remember the ending. The book is Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy, a novella first published in Italian in 1989 and translated into English in 1991. I find it almost impossible to believe that this book was written in the late 1980s, just as I find it almost impossible to believe that Cy Twombly really…

The Death Squad Dossier

Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez is a bookish man with a reputation for probity who wears suits and carefully coordinated ties and shirts to work. He has, in Guatemala, a perilous job: he presides over what is known as High Risk Court B—one of several courts with increased security that were first established in 2009 to conduct trials involving crimes such as human rights violations, narcotics, human trafficking, and money laundering. These trials were deemed to pose unusual dangers to judges, prosecutors, defendants, lawyers, and witnesses. In 2013 Gálvez ruled that Efraín Ríos Montt, the country’s dictator for parts of 1982 and 1983, could be tried for genocide and crimes against humanity. (He was subsequently convicted.) In 2017 he sent the president and vice-president, Otto Pérez Molina and Roxana Baldetti, to…

Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy, translated from the Italian by Tim Parks. New Directions, 101 pp., $13.95 (paper) The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy, translated from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff. New Directions, 89 pp., $13.95 (paper) I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy, translated from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff. New Directions, 115 pp., $14.95 (paper) There is a book that I’ve read and reread maybe six or seven times—it’s only 101 pages long, but I can never remember the ending. The book is Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy, a novella first published in Italian in 1989 and translated into English in 1991. I find it almost impossible to believe that this book was written in the late 1980s, just as I find…

Becoming Amartya Sen

Home in the World by Amartya Sen. Liveright, 464 pp., $30.00 In 1901, at the age of forty, the writer Rabindranath Tagore founded a small school at Santiniketan, in a rural part of Bengal about a hundred miles north of Calcutta. Twenty years later he added a university alongside it—Visva-Bharati, whose name joined together the Sanskrit words for world and wisdom and whose motto was “Where the whole world meets in one nest.” The educational outlook of these joint institutions was boldly experimental. They were coeducational. There was no physical punishment and little formal discipline. Classes were held outside, under the trees. Fine arts, music, sports, and drama were highly regarded, exams and formal results largely disdained. Teachers and students mingled freely outside their lessons. The overriding aim was to encourage the students’…

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