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As I was leaving Algiers for Constantine, an hour east by plane, my friend Djamel, a taxi driver, fixer, and social critic, warned me not to...

As I was leaving Algiers for Constantine, an hour east by plane, my friend Djamel, a taxi driver, fixer, and social critic, warned me not to...

As I was leaving Algiers for Constantine, an hour east by plane, my friend Djamel, a taxi driver, fixer, and social critic, warned me not to...

To the Editors: As an author and longtime devotee of The New York Review of Books, I’d aspired to be mentioned in its pages, but not...

To the Editors: As an author and longtime devotee of The New York Review of Books, I’d aspired to be mentioned in its pages, but not...

To the Editors: As an author and longtime devotee of The New York Review of Books, I’d aspired to be mentioned in its pages, but not...

At the start of D.W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation, the American Civil War has recently ended. With the defeat of the Confederacy, the...

At the start of D.W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation, the American Civil War has recently ended. With the defeat of the Confederacy, the...

At the start of D.W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation, the American Civil War has recently ended. With the defeat of the Confederacy, the...

In August, as I traveled through the Catskills, a small roadside sign in Andes, New York, caught my attention. It announced that the Anti-Rent Wars had...