Hiking in America, what makes a terrorist, African literature

In the Review, Charles Petersen considers the history of hiking in America, Martin Filler reviews recent exhibitions and books about Frank Lloyd Wright, and William Gass reads Borges. On the NYR Daily, terrorism researcher Nafees Hamid examines the complexities of radicalization, April Bernard admires the unchecked power of Eloise, and Namwali Serpell explores one aspect of the politics of language in African literature: to gloss or not to gloss? Sponsored by [Knopf]( [Take a Hike!]( Charles Petersen Why do people hike? Surprisingly little has been written on the origins of so unnatural an activity. [12 Ways of Looking at Wright]( Martin Filler Something about Frank Lloyd Wright speaks to the general public in a way that the work of no other architect does. [Imaginary Borges]( William H. Gass It is not hard to feel that Borges’s creatures are mostly mad. This is, in many ways, a comforting conclusion. (1969) NYR Daily [What Makes a Terrorist?]( Nafees Hamid Trying to find a root cause of radicalization is doomed from the start because it assumes a single, linear chain of causation. [Eloise: The Feral Star]( April Bernard Gleeful, greedy, prone to random acts of violence, loquacious and haughty, this is no mere six-year-old. [Glossing Africa]( Namwali Serpell Readers have come to anticipate glossaries and italicized words in African fiction, even demand them. What better way to thwart expectations than to fake or fiddle with these conventions? Calendar: Art [World War I Beyond the Trenches]( [Sara Berman’s Closet]( [Lynette Yiadom-Boakye]( [Henry James and American Painting]( [Thoreau and His Journal]( [Jamel Shabazz: Crossing 125th]( The New York Review of Books 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](