Table of Contents - February 11, 2016 | The New York Review of Books

Garry Wills

The Triumph of the Hard Right

‘Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism—from Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond’ by E.J. Dionne Jr.

Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism—from Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond

by E.J. Dionne Jr.

Jed Perl

In the Sculptor’s Studio: Calder & Stella

Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture

Frank Stella: A Retrospective

Janet Malcolm

‘A Very Sadistic Man’

Jonathan Bate’s ‘Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life’

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

by Jonathan Bate

David Maraniss

The Collision Sport on Trial

Collisions are the essence of football. They are intended to occur on every play in every game.

Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto

by Steve Almond

The Game’s Not Over: In Defense of Football

by Gregg Easterbrook

Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football

by Gilbert M. Gaul

League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth

by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru

Concussion

a film directed by Peter Landesman

Requiem for a Running Back

a documentary film directed by Rebecca Carpenter

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Jed S. Rakoff

The Magna Carta Betrayed?

Frederick Seidel

Me

a poem

Geoffrey O’Brien

His Way

Sinatra’s Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World

by David Lehman

Sinatra: The Chairman

by James Kaplan

Wyatt Mason

To Be a Muslim in the West

The Moor’s Account

by Laila Lalami

Sue Halpern

The Real Legacy of Steve Jobs

Jobs had an abiding belief in freedom—his own.

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

a documentary film directed by Alex Gibney

Steve Jobs

a film directed by Danny Boyle

Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli

Darryl Pinckney

The Anger of Ta-Nehisi Coates

‘Between the World and Me’ and its precursors

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Jon Pareles

Make Me a Song

The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

by John Seabrook

George Soros,
Gregor Peter Schmitz

‘The EU Is on the Verge of Collapse’—An Interview

Kicking a ball uphill so that it keeps rolling back down

Rosanna Warren

The Line

a poem

Diane Johnson

Very Big in LA

West of Eden: An American Place

by Jean Stein

Michael Greenberg

Scorched by Murder

Lush Life

by Richard Price

The Whites

by Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt

Edward Mendelson

A Different T.S. Eliot

Three new books make it possible to see more deeply than before into Eliot’s inner life

Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land

by Robert Crawford

The Poems of T.S. Eliot, Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue

The Poems of T.S. Eliot, Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses

edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue

Joan W. Scott,
Steve Mayer,
Andrew G. Celli Jr.,
David Cole

Troubles at Yale: An Exchange

Freedom of speech and discrimination on university campuses