Plus: Wallace Shawn; The Providence Election; The Amur Tiger; Edward Burtynsky
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Today in The New York Review of Books: Fintan O’Toole evaluates Andy Burnham’s first hundred days as the British prime minister; Adam Thirlwell considers Wallace Shawn’s genius; Nina Sparling votes with the tenants in Providence; Colin Thubron elegizes the Amur tiger; Bill McKibben looks at Edward Burtynsky’s photographs; a poem by Claire DeVoogd; and, from the archives, Fintan O’Toole on Wallace Shawn.
Can Andy Burhnam’s vision of economic recovery in the hinterlands keep the UK together?
Wallace Shawn’s plays expose the ways in which civilized society is maintained by a violence that is everywhere denied.
The mayoral race in Rhode Island’s capital has become a proxy for a broader contest between tenants and landlords.
The Amur tiger and the jaguar are among the most elusive big cats in the world. Biologists have spent years tracking them down to save them.
Edward Burtynsky’s photographs chronicle the gigantic scale of the scarred landscapes created by twentieth-century extractive industries.
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Free from the Archives
In today’s newsletter, Adam Thirlwell writes about Wallace Shawn’s most recent play, What We Did Before Our Moth Days, and considers the career of “this playwright in his eighties” who may also be “the most contemporary writer I know.” In the Review’s August 13, 1998, issue, Fintan O’Toole watched Shawn’s play The Designated Mourner (which had been adapted into a feature film in 1997), and examined “the two aspects of [Shawn’s] public persona”: the “familiar if quirky presence in American popular culture” who starred in Clueless and Toy Story and the playwright, “a dark figure glowering on the margins of American consumer culture, muttering about blood and sex and torture.”
“The dizzying kaleidoscope of television itself—the way we flick from Seinfeld to a news report on Bosnia to an ad for perfume—is summoned in Shawn’s mature plays as a witness to the dazed condition of contemporary civilization.”
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