Plus: Main Street, USA; Liu Xiaobo
| Today in The New York Review of Books: Brett Christophers asks just who the Fed answers to; Christopher Benfey remembers Main Street, USA, in Indiana and at Disneyland; and congratulations to Ian Johnson, winner of the 2025 Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing. “Are central banks like the Fed really independent in the first place? If so, of what and whom? And what goals are they ‘independently’ pursuing?” Lately I have found myself returning to a puzzling episode from my childhood in Richmond, Indiana. Congratulations to Ian JohnsonYesterday Washington Monthly announced the winners of its annual Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing. “China’s Iconoclast,” Ian Johnson’s review from our October 3, 2024, issue of a book about Liu Xiaobo, China’s most famous dissident, was given the top prize in the larger publications category. The judges praised Johnson for “tartly [using] his review to criticize American media and fellow book reviewers for not only ignoring Xiaobo’s unheralded role as a dissident leader, but for their ‘lack of attention paid to the Chinese equivalents’ of previous generations of state-crushed European artists and intellectuals.” Named in honor of Kukula Kapoor Glastris, Washington Monthly’s longtime books editor, the Kukula Award is “the only journalism prize dedicated to highlighting and encouraging exemplary reviews of serious, public affairs-focused books.” “Liu Xiaobo was a leading figure in the Rights Defense Movement, the most sustained effort to rein in the Communist Party’s unchecked power. He won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize while in prison, and seven years later he became the first laureate to perish in custody since the German journalist Carl von Ossietzky in 1938.” “Andor, even as it makes a Star Wars story say far more than it ever has before, at the same time demonstrates the limits of the kind of storytelling that has come to dominate so much of popular culture.” “Calls [for writers] to leave the prisoner in the prison [are] effectively calls to ignore the logic of a society where some people are valued and flourish, and others are not, and don’t.” Save $168 on an inspired pairing!
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