Czeslaw Milosz, Persian art, local news, the resistance

Weekend reading on nybooks.com: The life of Czesław Miłosz, evangelicalism in America, the future of local news, a debate over a war relic, soap and apartheid, how Persian artists assimilated foreign influences, a visionary photography curator, and Trump as seen by Republicans and the grassroots resistance. Sponsored by [Unicorn Press]( [Poems from the Abyss]( Charles Simic Czesław Miłosz, the Polish poet, writer, diplomat, exile, and Nobel laureate, was a figure whose own life seemed to embody the turmoil of the twentieth century. [Where Evangelicals Came From]( Garry Wills It looks less and less odd that 81 percent of evangelicals voted for Trump. They know what End Time sermons look like. In the current issue: Natasha Walter on becoming German, David Yaffe on Lou Reed, Alexander Stille on slavery in Mauritania, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on Hurricane Maria, Geremie Barmé on Lu Xun, Max Nelson on Fernando Pessoa, and more NYR Daily [The Bells of Balangiga]( J.p. Lawrence Years after the event, the American survivors of the battle would recall the church bells ringing. [Ricketts to Reporters: Drop Dead]( Michael Greenberg DNAinfo and Gothamist reporters seemed to be a ubiquitous presence in the neighborhoods they covered. [Soap and ‘Fatal Intimacies’]( Panashe Chigumadzi Soap has been at the center of some of the most visceral private and public expressions of racism in South Africa. Gallery [Persia’s Hybrid Art]( Robyn Creswell For many European visitors of the 19th century, Persian art was a tasteless mishmash. A new exhibition shows how wrong they were. [Hugh Edwards: Curator, Friend]( Danny Lyon I longed to ask him, but never did, how he knew what was good. How had this man discovered Robert Frank, Bruce Davidson, and so many other photographers? Reflections on a Year with Trump [Year One: The Mad King]( Charles J. Sykes Republicans nurtured an alligator in the bathtub; now it is grown and loose and still quite angry. They are competing with one another for who is to be eaten last. [Year One: Resistance Research]( Judith Shulevitz If people newly roused to political action are going to stay roused, then the Democratic Party had better pay attention and follow their lead. The New York Review of Books 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](