Janet Malcolm's work of art, James Fenton on sculpted bodies, new fiction, Trump and the Court

[A Work of Art]( Janet Malcolm There was no reason for the existence of this picture. [A Spitting Image]( James Fenton On “Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now),” at the Met Breuer Sponsored by [Haus Publishing]( Fiction Issue [Imagining the Real]( Wyatt Mason On The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet [House of the Dead]( Jane Kramer On House of Names by Colm Tóibín [Hell Can Be Beautiful]( Silvana Paternostro On Return to the Dark Valley by Santiago Gamboa NYR Daily [The Uncertainty of the Tour de France]( Michael Hutchinson Cycling is a sport in which the truth always seems to be in flux. World Cup 2018 Peter L’Official: [France]( Laurent Dubois: [Belgium]( Piotr Orlov: [Russia]( [Say Goodbye, It’s Independence Day]( Jonathan Freedland Conventions once deemed immovable have been exposed as far weaker than we understood. [Merkel’s Problem on Her Right]( Madeleine Schwartz A series of events propelled by the phantom of migration have threatened her governing coalition. [The Supreme Court Looks Away]( David Cole The majority declined to protect the constitutional rights of the vulnerable in the face of blatant prejudice. [Paris Through the Eyes of Willy Ronis]( Carole Naggar His work epitomizes a certain humanist photography that flourished after the devastation of World War II. [Returning the Gaze, with a Vengeance]( Esther Allen On “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985” at the Brooklyn Museum You are receiving this message because you signed up for email newsletters from The New York Review. [Update preferences]( The New York Review of Books 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 [Unsubscribe](