| This week on nybooks.com: A challenge to the War on Drugs, what Vladimir Putin learned in the KGB, how science is like human rights, Frank Lloyd Wright’s favorite photographer, reading in the bathroom,stuttering, and the “negative space” of Central Park. | ||||||||
SPEECH
'The Paralysis of Stuttering'Francine du Plessix GrayEmperor Claudius I of Rome, Aristotle, Virgil, Demosthenes, Charles Darwin, opera star Robert Merrill, the young Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, actor Louis Jouvet, and French revolutionary activist Camille Desmoulins were all stutterers. | ||||||||
LATIN AMERICA
An End to the War on Drugs?Alma GuillermoprietoDrug policy is an ideological live wire. But for the first time, Latin American leaders, led by Guatemala's president, are discussing alternatives to the US-led War on Drugs. Is there a better way? | ||||||||
RUSSIA
Vladimir's TaleAnne ApplebaumPutin doesn’t merely dislike his would-be opponents, he believes that they are sinister agents of foreign powers. He doesn’t just object to the liberal political system they support, he believes they are plotting to “usurp power” and hand the country over to rapacious outsiders. | ||||||||
PHOTOGRAPHY
Modernism's Slyest LensMartin FillerA major retrospective of photographer Pedro Guerrero’s work traces his career from his images of Frank Lloyd Wright’s buildings in their natural settings to his deceptively suave photographs depicting the rise of America’s car culture in the 1960s. | ||||||||
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TRIBUTE
Fang Lizhi, a Galileo for Our TimePerry LinkFang’s path through life observed a pattern that is common to China’s dissidents: a person begins with socialist ideals, feels bitter when the rulers betray the ideals, resorts to outspoken criticism, and ends in prison or exile. But Fang was a natural scientist, and this made him different in important ways. | ||||||||
ESSAY
The Bathroom MuseCharles SimicHas there ever been any survey conducted among those who lock themselves in the bathroom inquiring how they spend their time? Do they read, smoke, talk to themselves, think things over, say their prayers, or just stare into space? | ||||||||
MEMOIR
Negative SpaceThomas BellerThere is so much action in New York one is sometimes perversely excited by those moments, or those places, when one is not part of it. Where nothing is happening. These places, in turn, become little air-pockets of possibility—what I call negative space. | ||||||||
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