Solitary confinement, manga, Fidel Castro, right and wrong and Trump

Sunday reading on nybooks.com: From the Review, Martin Garbus on the horrors of solitary confinement, Christian Caryl on the chances for Kurdish statehood, and Alma Guillermoprieto on Fidel Castro. On the NYR Daily, Christopher Benfey on the incisive drawings of Hokusai, Esther Allen on Lee Lockwood’s photographs of Cuba, and Masha Gessen on the moral response to Trumpism. Sponsored by [Penn State University Press] [America’s Invisible Inferno] Martin Garbus Between 80,000 and 120,000 men and women are held in solitary confinement. They can be put there for years on end, solely at the whim of a prison guard. [The Kurds Are Nearly There] Christian Caryl The dream of a national homeland is one that all Kurds share, no matter where they currently live. They are now closer to achieving a workable state than at any other time in recent memory. [Fidel in the Evening] Alma Guillermoprieto If you are in the neighborhood of forty years old and Cuban, Fidel Castro has been at the center of your heart and thoughts, for however small a second, each day of your life. (1998) NYR Daily [Trump: The Choice We Face] Masha Gessen What separates Americans in 2016 from Europeans in the 1940s and 1950s is a little bit of historical time but a whole lot of historical knowledge. [The Magician of Manga] Christopher Benfey No artist was more closely associated with manga than the amazing painter and printmaker Hokusai Katsushika. [Fidelmania] Esther Allen Lee Lockwood’s photographs of Cuba in the 1960s are a supreme lesson in the populist power of the Castro cult. The New York Review of Books 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 [Preferences] | [Unsubscribe]