Nawal K. Arjini

Editor at New York Review of Books

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Dress It Up, Then Make It Real | Blair McClendon

2 months ago | nybooks.com | Nawal K. Arjini |Blair McClendon

In our February 13 issue, Blair McClendon reviews “Edges of Ailey,” the Whitney Museum’s show about the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey, curated by Adrienne Edwards. “If Ailey’s dances come across as pleasurable rather than noxiously pandering to a received idea of blackness, it is not solely because we recognize the motions and situations,” he writes. “It’s Technicolor again.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Sigh | Nawal Arjini

Jan 18, 2025 | nybooks.com | Nawal K. Arjini

“Even the best spies have their time in the cold,” an old secret agent tells his grandson. They’re sitting by the fire in an episode of Apple TV’s Slow Horses, adapted from Mick Herron’s best-selling novels. The agent is alluding to John le Carré’s novel, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1963), to reassure the younger man about his recent failure at work, but—like the audience—his grandson finds it difficult to believe his own career will ever recover.
The Appall | Jorie Graham

Nov 30, 2024 | nybooks.com | Nawal K. Arjini |Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham’s poem in our December 5, 2024, issue begins:whizzed past, we liked the look of it, it liquefieddeath, it was here to stay, it actuallyhad nowhere else to go, was in its last stages now, longed to berevelation, longed to be part ofnature making itswhistling sounds above, itsscreamingbelow. The classrooms exploded. The bits of desks lay aboutin the dust-filled amnesia. . . . In her decades-long career, Graham has written many such poems examining the devastating conditions of the world.
Dreams of Creation

Jul 29, 2024 | thenation.com | Nawal K. Arjini

Thank you for reading The NationWe hope you enjoyed the story you just read, just one of the many incisive, deeply-reported articles we publish daily. Now more than ever, we need fearless journalism that shifts the needle on important issues, uncovers malfeasance and corruption, and uplifts voices and perspectives that often go unheard in mainstream media.
Synthetic Thinking | Jerome Groopman

Apr 13, 2024 | nybooks.com | Nawal K. Arjini |Jerome Groopman

For nearly two decades, Jerome Groopman has been writing for The New York Review of Books about all matters medical. In our latest issue, he reviews Andrew Leland’s memoir, which recounts the writer’s experiences as his eyesight declined.
‘A Powerful Day to You, Sir!’ | Mark O’Connell

Dec 9, 2023 | nybooks.com | Nawal K. Arjini |Mark O’connell

In our Holiday Issue, Mark O’Connell reviews Werner Herzog’s autobiography, a deadpan self-portrait by a true eccentric who seems to wake up each morning “in determined pursuit of experience.” As O’Connell writes, there is something “resolute and methodical about the wildness of Herzog’s life,” in which the slapstick and the philosophical entwine in persistent bizarre coincidences.
History’s Presence | Adom Getachew

Aug 12, 2023 | nybooks.com | Nawal K. Arjini |Adom Getachew

In the August 17 issue of the Review, the political theorist Adom Getachew writes about Howard French’s Born in Blackness, a radical reexamination of the importance of Africa and Africans to Western history. As French writes, the European exploitation of the continent and its peoples went hand in hand with the willful erasure of African contributions to the world economy, to its culture, and to humanity’s greatest achievements.
Look Up! | Nawal Arjini

Jun 21, 2023 | nybooks.com | Nawal K. Arjini
The New Organizers | Willa Glickman

May 27, 2023 | nybooks.com | Nawal K. Arjini
The Right to Be Artful | John J. Lennon

Mar 4, 2023 | nybooks.com | Nawal K. Arjini |John J. Lennon