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Edvard Munch, The Sick Child (1855–1886), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

The Sick Child by Edvard Munch is undoubtedly a h...

Photograph by Lazaregagnidze, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under

Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on our desks and spill over onto our shelves. We sometimes share them with each other on Slack, and we thought, for a change, that we might share them with ...

The market, May 2015. Photograph by Reinhold Möller, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC B...

Bill Costa, The Bath (Homage to Paul Cadmus), 1985. Courtesy of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (2001.1134.0008). Bequest of Douglass Roby.

Our bathtub was born in a sturdier, more brutal age. It’s a deep and oblong cauldron—perfect for cooking a human being—which stands in the center of our kitchen. Perched between the cheapo st...