Auschwitz and Vietnam, Roxane Gay, art and imitation

New on nybooks.com: Ian Buruma on Marcel Ophuls’s The Memory of Justice, Cathleen Schine on Roxane Gay’s Hunger, and Michael Greenberg on the housing emergency in New York City. Plus J. Hoberman on Nocturama, Ruth Bernard Yeazell on imitation and modern art, and Larry Wolff on a controversial Die Meistersinger at Bayreuth. Sponsored by [Dissent Pins]( [Fools, Cowards, or Criminals?]( Ian Buruma What makes human beings who are normally unexceptional commit atrocities under abnormal circumstances? [Unruly and Unerring]( Cathleen Schine Roxane Gay is a writer of extreme empathy. Her fiction and essays elicit as much shared understanding as they give. [New York City’s Housing Crisis]( Michael Greenberg Last year more than 127,000 different men, women, and children slept in the shelters. NYR Daily [The Terrorists Go Shopping]( J. Hoberman Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama sets the aftermath of two centuries of French history to a hypnotic, trancelike beat. [The Highest Form of Flattery]( Ruth Bernard Yeazell Imitation has long had a bad rap, especially among spokesmen for modern art. [Wagner on Trial]( Larry Wolff A production of Die Meistersinger at Bayreuth poses the question of Wagner’s relation to the genocidal Nazi regime, without actually answering it. Calendar [Fall 2017 Exhibitions]( Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Three outstanding exhibitions in England—and two more shows to come—have a significant link in their provenance and ownership. The New York Review of Books 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](