Outsider art, life in the shadow of Disney, democracy in Europe

New on nybooks.com: The visual poetry of Eugen Gabritschevsky, Sean Baker’s The Florida Project, the deep divisions in Myanmar society, and the plague of populist nationalism sweeping Europe. Sponsored by [Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group]( [The Master of Eglfing-Haar]( Sanford Schwartz Should Eugen Gabritschevsky be called an outsider artist? The question hovers over his pictures, adding yet another level of mystery to them. Also in the current issue: Nathaniel Rich on Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House, Helen Vendler on Frank Bidart, Robert Paxton on Fascist culture, Peter Green on Daniel Mendelsohn’s An Odyssey, Helene Cooper on Uganda, Jed Perl on Donald Judd, Ian Johnson on sexual life in modern China, and [more]( NYR Daily [If Heaven Ain’t a Lot Like Disney]( J. Hoberman Sean Baker’s The Florida Project is a snapshot of chaos, focused on a heedlessly dissolute young mother and her rambunctious six-year-old daughter. [Myanmar: Marketing a Massacre]( Francis Wade The popular support in Myanmar for the military’s campaign has revealed a violently chauvinistic prejudice against Rohingya. [Is Democracy in Europe Doomed?]( Sasha Polakow-Suransky Those who believe millennials are immune to authoritarian ideas are mistaken. Calendar [Translating Jean Giono: A Discussion]( October 23, NYU Emmanuelle Ertel, Paul Eprile and Alyson Waters discuss translating the work of Jean Giono. The New York Review of Books 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](