Jed Rakoff on the death penalty, Roderick MacFarquhar on religion in China

New on nybooks.com: The death penalty and the Supreme Court, religion in China, the photographs of Diane Arbus, and the sublime fiction of José Maria de Eça de Queirós. Sponsored by [Restless Books]( [Will the Death Penalty Ever Die?]( Jed S. Rakoff How can one applaud capital punishment knowing that those executed may well be innocent? [China’s Religious Revival]( Roderick MacFarquhar Ian Johnson brilliantly describes in his new book how ordinary people, seeking faith to give meaning to their lives, are not waiting for Xi Jinping to lead them to his version of the promised land. [The Art of Difference]( Hilton Als The story Diane Arbus told with her camera was about shape-shifting: in order to understand difference one had to not only not dismiss it, but try to become it. NYR Daily [The Proust of Portugal]( James Guida The fictions of José Maria de Eça de Queirós have a central place in Portuguese and Brazilian literature, but they don’t seem much read elsewhere Calendar [“Agon” at Sixty]( A Symposium Scandinavia House, New York Monday, June 26, 2017 Joan Acocella, Jacques d’Amboise, Barbara Milberg Fisher, Lynn Garafola, Robert Gottlieb, Simon Head, Barbara Horgan, Maria Kowroski, Elizabeth Kendall, Allegra Kent, Alastair Macaulay, Arthur Mitchell, Claudia Roth Pierpont, and Amar Ramasar Free and open to all • Registration required The New York Review of Books 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](