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The New York Review of Books

Contributors

‘There’s Nothing for Me Here’

Surely Not?

The Spy in the Jeu de Paume

Doing Their Own Research

Zionism Without Zion

Forced Amnesia

Self-Portrait as Psychology • after two paintings by Soheila Sokhanvari

‘Her Own Cuneiform’

NEW BOOKS • FROM UNIVERSITY PRESSES

PARTICIPATING PRESSES

For the Love of Money

Pure Thought on Paper

How Brown Came North and Failed

The Dybbuk • for Delmore Schwartz

Iran: A Grand Bargain?

Grand Opera’s Tribulations

One Brief Shining Moment

The Connoisseur of Desire