Deadlock in Ukraine

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Ukrainian soldiers with a handheld drone warning system, near Vovchansk, Ukraine

Tim Judah
Ukraine Divided

Almost three years after the beginning of Russia’s invasion, Ukraine is not defeated, but Russia is not victorious, either.

Women reeling silk; engraving by Karel van Mallery

Erin Maglaque
Soundscapes of the Silenced

In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification. Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.

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The Killing Spree

a poem by
Jorie Graham

whizzed past, we liked the look of it, it liquefied
death, it was here to stay, it actually
had nowhere else to go, was in its last stages now, longed to be
revelation, longed to be part of
nature making its
whistling sounds above, its
screaming...

Yuri Slezkine , Wesley Lowery , Carolina A. Miranda , Nitin K. Ahuja , and Susan Neiman
The Return of Trump—VI

On rage, fluoride, the task of the journalist, the Garden of American Heroes, and the Buffs and the Blues.

Dahlia Krutkovich, Omer Bartov, Catherine Coleman Flowers, and Joshua Craze
The Return of Trump—VII

On veterans, fascism, Africa abandoned, and “less-than-kosher activities.”

Peter Cole
‘A Window to the Word’

Joel Shapiro’s sculptures and works on paper pitch the viewer into a quietly sublime and kinesthetic experience.

Free from the Archives

On October 19, 1984, three agents of Communist Poland’s secret police assassinated Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Catholic priest and outspoken member of the Solidarity movement whose anti-regime sermons were often broadcast on Radio Free Europe.

In the Review’s December 6, 1984, issue, we published a translation of a statement that Popiełuszko had sent abroad in 1983, shortly after the end of nineteen months of martial law in Poland. He expressed his continuing support for the Solidarity movement, striking workers, and political prisoners; his desire for the state to “respect human dignity”; and his commitment to continuing to speak his conscience.

Jerzy Popiełuszko
‘I Am Prepared for Anything’

“The next time there is a similar popular rising, a push for freedom, time will not be wasted on the unessential; people must learn to distinguish what is important, on what issues there can be no compromise, and on which, for the time being, there can be.”