Volume 62, Number 2 (2015-02-05)

Marilynne Robinson

On Edgar Allan Poe

Crypts, entombments, physical morbidity: these nightmares figure prominently in Edgar Allan Poe’s tales, a fictional world in which the word that recurs most crucially is horror.

Zoë Heller

Rape on the Campus

On the efficacy and fairness of recent reforms

Kenneth Roth

Obama & Counterterror: The Ignored Record

The president’s disappointing record on rights

Cathleen Schine

‘A Beautiful, Mournful Novel’

Atticus Lish’s ‘Preparation for the Next Life’

Preparation for the Next Life

by Atticus Lish

Christian Caryl

Saving Alan Turing from His Friends

What ‘The Imitation Game’ gets wrong

The Imitation Game

a film directed by Morten Tyldum

Alan Turing: The Enigma

by Andrew Hodges

Alan Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age

by B. Jack Copeland

Jonathan Galassi

Greetings, Friends!

a poem

George Soros

A New Policy to Rescue Ukraine

Europe needs to wake up and recognize that it is under attack from Russia.

Michael Kimmelman

Van Gogh: The Courage & the Cunning

“Real artists paint things not as they are, in a dry analytical way, but as they feel them”

Van Gogh: A Power Seething

by Julian Bell

Sarah Birke

How ISIS Rules

Its ability to maintain power depends overwhelmingly on outright repression

Hermione Lee

Alice Munro’s Magic

Her characters often have to decide what “home” means, and what to do with it when you have left it

Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995–2014

by Alice Munro

Mark Danner,
Hugh Eakin

The CIA: The Devastating Indictment

The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program

by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Martin Filler

The Hard Case of Paul Rudolph

The Architecture of Paul Rudolph

by Timothy M. Rohan

After You Left/They Took It Apart (Demolished Paul Rudolph Homes)

by Chris Mottalini

Michael Greenberg

The NY Police vs. the Mayor

Just how far de Blasio and Bratton will be able to push police reform is an open question

Helen Vendler

A Dazzling Poet

Stay, Illusion

by Lucie Brock-Broido

Christopher de Bellaigue

Iran & the Bomb: The Endgame

The long, rancorous, and so far intractable battle of wills

Letters

Susan Gubar,
Elizabeth Abel,
Ben H. Bagdikian,
Marlene Griffith Bagdikian,
et al.

Gaps in the Food Chain

Sheldon Harnick,
Robert Brustein

Choreography on the Roof

Marc Aronson,
Robert Brustein

He Should Have Directed It

Sheldon Goldfarb,
Martin Filler

Arty in Onslow

Arien Mack

‘The Fear of Art’

The Editors