Plus: Devastation in Darfur; Jane DeLynn; Yoko Ono; Fernando Pessoa
| Today in The New York Review of Books: Fintan O’Toole condemns Trump’s escalation of state violence; Jérôme Tubiana reports from the endless war in Darfur; Regina Marler reads a sapphic Prufrock; Anika Banister imagines alongside Yoko Ono; a poem by Fernando Pessoa; and, from the archives, Masha Gessen on government goons. Renée Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administration’s efforts to normalize abductions and state violence. As paramilitaries tear through their already devastated province, self-defense fighters in North Darfur have taken up arms to defend their homes. Jane DeLynn’s autobiographical novel In Thrall recounts a same-sex affair between a teenager and her closeted English teacher in the early 1960s, a time when exposure could be more traumatic than exploitation. For six decades, Yoko Ono’s art has considered how we should live with ourselves and one another in an unknowable, painful world. Free from the ArchivesOn August 29, 2017, way back in Donald Trump’s first term, Masha Gessen wrote for the NYR Online an analysis of the new president’s autocratic impulses, in particular his “encourage[ment] of extralegal violence.” These sometimes tacit and sometimes explicit incitements included the president’s notorious nod to the “very fine people”—neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and far right militias among them—at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a white supremacist had just killed a woman. “Autocrats frequently rely on delegating violence to extralegal actors or, as in the case of Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, on the willingness of law enforcement officers to carry out extralegal violence in exchange for the promise of impunity. Duterte has made this promise explicit; more often, incitement to violence contains a tacit guarantee of protection.” New Subscriber Benefit!Subscribers are now able to share unlocked versions of our articles with friends, family, and social media channels. When signed in to your account, look for this gift box icon in any of our articles. “Most New Yorkers, for that matter, haven’t been buried in their immediate communities for close to two hundred years. St. Michael’s and other rural cemeteries were created to whisk the dead away from the city proper during a moment of panic over exponential urban growth. It’s never been easy to maintain graves here, with space in such short supply. The city piles on. ” President Trump’s decision to support Delcy Rodríguez as Venezuela’s new leader makes clear that oil, not democracy, is his main concern. You are receiving this message because you signed up
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