Plus: Jamaica Kincaid; Pilates Planet; John Berryman
| Our August 21 issue—the Summer Issue—is now online, with David Cole on the Supreme Court’s scorn for precedent, Caroline Moorehead on the end of refugee resettlement, Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Jamaica Kincaid’s acts of language, Alma Guillermoprieto on bodies built by Pilates, Sean M. Carroll on cosmic timing, Frances Wilson on the Mitford sisters, Daphne Merkin on the shtetl stories of Chaim Grade, David S. Reynolds on slavery and the American Revolution, Costică Brădăţan on Romania’s nerdy president, poems by John Berryman and Jorie Graham, and much more. How has a group of Liberian refugees, resettled in the US nearly twenty-five years ago after fleeing civil war, fared in a country that has changed vastly since admitting them? Jamaica Kincaid’s commanding, irreverent work immerses her readers in a black world without explaining or defining its blackness. This seems to be a major departure in the history of African American literature. With his strange machines and an uncanny, intuitive understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created a new technique for improving strength and movement. “We needed literature that included both the particulars and the broader view—literature that eschewed moral simplicity in asking who does bad and why, and that tarried with the component of luck, in life as in books, in shaping outcomes.” Save $168 on an inspired pairing!
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