The suffocation of democracy, a prophetic voice against injustice, a radio auteur

Christopher Browning on dismantling democracy in 1933 vs. 2018, Drew Gilpin Faust on Pauli Murray, Martin Filler on the legacy of Robert Venturi Sponsored by [Zed Books]( [The Suffocation of Democracy]( Christopher R. Browning As a historian specializing in the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of fascism in Europe. I would note several troubling similarities and one important but equally troubling difference. [Catching Up to Pauli Murray]( Drew Gilpin Faust Her words and actions on behalf of African-Americans and women propelled two of the most significant social movements of the 20th century. In the current issue: Geoffrey O’Brien on Jacques Becker, Stacy Schiff on Claire Tomalin, Regina Marler on René Magritte, Adam Thirlwell on Berlin Alexanderplatz, Jacob Weisberg on Facebook, Ian Frazier on cowboys, and more NYR Daily [The Danish Tolstoy]( Morten Høi Jensen The 1917 Nobel laureate Henrik Pontoppidan rules over the province of Danish letters with a grey-bearded authority; English-language readers now have the first real opportunity to encounter his masterpiece. [Joe Frank, Radio Auteur]( Andrew Leland He cleared a path for generations of producers who think of telling stories for radio not as a disposable information-delivery system for a mass audience, but rather as a place for ambiguous, strange artistic expression. [Robert Venturi: Visionary Mannerist of Main Street]( Martin Filler With his collaborator Denise Scott Brown he was responsible for several of the most singular buildings of our time. [An Interview with Alice Walker]( Salamishah Tillet “I always feel like if you can see it maybe you can change it… You can’t make people change if they’re not moved to do it, but that’s why we have writers, poets, fighters, and dancers.” [The Innocence of Abu Zubaydah]( Joseph Margulies I have defended men and women on death row for nearly all of my thirty years as a lawyer, and have represented people caught up in the excesses of the “war on terror” since very shortly after that war was launched. 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](