The Undoing Project, Virgil Thomson, evangelical awakenings

Sunday reading on nybooks.com: Tamsin Shaw on the new behavioral sciences, Garry Wills on evangelicals, Christopher Carroll on Virgil Thomson, the photo collages of Josef Albers, and an interview with the reclusive Chinese writer Ke Yunlu. Sponsored by [Knopf]( [Invisible Manipulators of Your Mind]( Tamsin Shaw [Where Evangelicals Came From]( Garry Wills Evangelical religion is revival religion, that of emotional contagion. It can best be characterized by three things: crowds, drama, and cycles. [The Knight Errant of Music Criticism]( Christopher Carroll Virgil Thomson’s provocations changed the American classical music world for the better. Also in the current issue Helen Vendler on Robert Lowell Christopher Browning on Hitler’s rise Charles Baxter on George Saunders Darryl Pinckney on Moonlight Yasmine El Rashidi on Mohsin Hamid Thomas Powers on William Faulkner Tim Flannery on passenger pigeons Joyce Carol Oates on Mary Miller Ingrid Rowland on Rome and more NYR Daily [Josef Albers: Art to Open Eyes]( Nicholas Fox Weber The sheer love of living and seeing, an intoxication with the bounty of nature, permeates all of Albers’s work. [Liberating China’s Past: An Interview]( Ian Johnson: Why do you think your books were banned? Ke Yunlu: The short answer is that today’s society is not ready to tolerate and digest such ideas. This task will be left for later generations. The New York Review of Books 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](