Plus: Amy Clampitt; Radu Jude; Edwin Hubble
| Today in The New York Review of Books: Robert Sullivan on the Native American fight for sovereignty; Anthony Domestico on Amy Clampitt’s linguistic profusion; Anna Shechtman and D.A. Miller on Radu Jude’s filthy cinema; and, from the archives, Daniel J. Kevles on the wonders of cosmology. If there is hope for the earth, it will depend in part on acknowledging indigenous sovereignty in the face of insatiable resource extraction. A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing. There’s uncanny comedy in watching Radu Jude’s ugly films as an ugly American. Free from the ArchivesEdwin Hubble, namesake of the telescope and pioneering researcher into the expanding universe theory, was born 136 years ago today. In the Review’s May 16, 1991, issue, Daniel J. Kevles wrote about Hubble and the line of physicists and astronomers who had, since the late nineteenth century, been refining humanity’s model of the universe—our cosmology. From the notion of a “static, unchanging” cosmos to the Big Bang to the expanding universe theory, “what matters,” Kevles concluded, “is what is really out there.” “The Hubble relationship thus implied that the earlier in the history of the universe one looked, the closer to each other the galaxies had been. It provided stunning evidence that the universe was, in fact, expanding—not from any one point but, in the Einsteinian manifold of space-time, from all points, uniformly. It also permitted Hubble to calculate the age of the universe—which he did, arriving at a couple of billion years, a figure that was troubling because it was about half the age of the earth as it had been determined by radioactive dating.” “Trump does not look like he’s enjoying the memory of the days when he and Epstein were close friends.” “Trump seems to consider all immigrants undesirable.… And he appears to be determined to rid the country of them—not only undocumented migrants and asylum seekers but also international students, legal permanent residents with minor criminal records, and even naturalized citizens who are allegedly ‘terrorists’ or ‘frauds.’” A New York Review Online Event The State of the Left
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