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Álvaro Enrigue
The Discovery of Europe

A new book investigates the lives of the hundreds of thousands of indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the sixteenth century—a story central to the beginning of globalization.

Anjum Hasan
Even as a Ghost

In their new novels, V. V. Ganeshananthan and Shehan Karunatilaka use the “distance of time” to dramatize large chunks, if not the whole, of Sri Lanka’s recent past.

Francine Prose
Chile’s Count Dracula

Pablo Larraín’s film El Conde makes the bloodthirstiness of Pinochet’s regime literal.

Free from the Archives

Today would have been Max Eastman’s 140th birthday. In the Review’s December 7, 1978, issue, Irving Howe wrote about a recent biography of Eastman, and, finding the book wanting (“This seems so ready-made and threadbare an analysis, it either means little or applies to no fewer than 100 million other Americans”), he told the story of Eastman’s iconoclastic journey from anti-Marxist Trotskyite to right-wing contributing editor at Reader’s Digest opposed to the Vietnam War.

Irving Howe
Ragged Individualist

“What Eastman, like a good many other young idealists of Protestant lineage, did as a young man at the turn of the century was to transpose the morally earnest, progressivist version of Emersonianism into an equally American but decidedly more shocking cult of the Beautiful Life: a cult espousing non-conformist self-expression through sexual freedom, political radicalism, sympathy for the poor, poetic afflatus, all together.”

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