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David A. Bell
Piety & Power

A lively biography of Marie de Vignerot, the niece, confidante, and heiress of Cardinal Richelieu, sheds light on the religious passions and political intrigues of seventeenth-century France.

James Quandt
An Anatolian Chekhov

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film, About Dry Grasses, combines the painterly images, frustrated characters, and existential spirit of his earlier work.

Nicole Rudick
An Orchard for a Dome

In his diaries and paintings, the American artist Charles Burchfield worshipped the natural world.

Chantal McStay
Wallow Around and Live!

In her hypermediated performance pieces, the Argentine artist Marta Minujín invited audiences to lose their bearings.

NYRSeminars: Merve Emre on Lolita

Join Merve Emre as she leads a seminar on Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. In this series of four weekly seminars, Emre will guide participants through the story of a brilliant, cruel, and obsessive man’s love for a twelve-year-old girl, touching on debates about freedom and morality, high art and mass culture, Old Europe and young America, and the entwined fates of comedy and romance in the postwar novel. Register today!

Free from the Archives

Fifty-nine years ago today, the third protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama—the first attempt having ended when state police beat hundreds of marchers bloody, the second halted by a federal court injunction—commenced, escorted by the national guard. Some 8,000 people gathered in Selma to demonstrate for the right of Black Americans to vote, and by the time the march arrived at the Montgomery state capitol building on March 25, the crowd had grown to 25,000.

In the April 22, 1965, issue, the Review published a dispatch from the march by Elizabeth Hardwick.

Elizabeth Hardwick
Selma, Alabama: The Charms of Goodness

“How do they see themselves, we wonder, these posse-men, Sheriff Clark’s volunteers, with their guns and sticks and helmets, nearly always squat, fairfaced, middle-aged delinquents and psychopaths?”