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Dear loyal readers, next week's newsletter will not arrive at its regular time on Sunday — but fear not, you’ll receive it on Tuesday, August 7. Until then, happy reading!
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“‘Hey you, pretty girl, what’s the problem?’ Trump asked. ‘I need cash, and I need it fast.’ ‘That happens in the best of families,’ he grinned, grabbing her by the pussy. [Krantz did not really write those last five words.] ‘Can you sell my apartment, Donald? This week?’” Elizabeth Schambelan appraises Judith Krantz’s “weirdly vivid” 1986 novel I’ll Take Manhattan, in which our current president plays a major part.
“The fact that the libertarian wonderland of absolute sexual and economic freedom only ever worked in Rand’s melodramatic novels and helium-voiced Rush songs — that her philosophy of ‘Objectivism’ has never been successfully applied to actual governance — does not seem to cross the minds of libertarian true-believers.” Scott Timberg marvels at the weird persistence of Ayn Rand’s bad ideas.
“I wouldn’t say I’m motivated by a sense of duty or obligation, but I would say that I am motivated by a belief that individuals really matter, and what they do — or don’t do — can make a real difference.” Emily-Rose Baker interviews Philippe Sands, an international lawyer and the author of East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity.
On BLARB, Martin Gelin remembers a drive around East L.A. with Jonathan Gold, who was “creating a new national narrative, with American food at the center.”
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Karen Brissette is gripped by Megan Abbott’s latest novel, Give Me Your Hand.
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William Deverell roams through Joshua Wheeler’s new collection of essays, Acid West, “a New Mexican whiptail of a book.”
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Khanya Khondlo Mtshali takes issue with the “easy and showy moralism” of Morgan Jerkins’s This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America.
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Diana Delgado talks to poet Ada Limón about taking risks, accepting grace, and holding the world’s pain.
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Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews Our Time Will Come, a film by veteran Hong Kong director Ann Hui.
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Samuel Collins considers the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest such deposit of Anglo-Saxon precious metal yet found.
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"Learned, beautifully written, and crafted with evident care, Tact is one of those works that, from cover to content, exemplifies the ethos that is its subject." On David Russell's new book: http://ow.ly/CAbm30l0RWs
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