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Thomas Hart Benton: City Building, 1930

Editor’s Note: This piece appeared in the June 11, 2026 issue of The New York Review of Books. It was adapted from a speech given by Zadie Smith to the American Academy of Arts and Letters the...

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No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear

Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

This article appeared in The Nation, March 23, 2015. (Reprinted with permission)

Christmas, the day after, in 2004, following the presidential re-election of George W. Bush.

I am staring out of the window...

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Is That Ticking (Pause) a Bomb?

Alfred Hitchcock and Peter Bogdanovich. (Shutterstock)

By Peter Bogdanovich for The New York Times, April 11, 1999

KNOWING that Alfred Hitchcock never previewed his movies, nor even saw them with audiences after they were released, I aske...

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The Potent Contact High of MAKE ME FAMOUS

Brian Vincent’s Make Me Famous gives the viewer a contact high, and not just because so many of its scenes are in rooms or galleries or apartments where the smoke and the fumes and the detritus of various herbs and chemicals are in the air....

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Brenda, the Second Banana to Lauren Bacall

Brenda Vaccaro in Cactus Flower, 1966. (Museum of the City of New York)

From The New York Times, March 13, 1966

Every year they float into town from the Louisiana bayous or the Nebraska grain belt— the Elizabeth Ashleys and Sandy Dennise...

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    Author of "Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog", published by Alfred A. Knopf and Vintage. Currently completing "The Lake of the Mind: Marlon Brando in the Night."

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