{"id":105668,"date":"2016-12-09T09:03:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=105668"},"modified":"2016-12-09T13:21:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T18:21:17","slug":"105668","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/09\/105668\/","title":{"rendered":"Giraffes, Despair, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_105669\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/giraffes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105669\" class=\"wp-image-105669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/giraffes.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/giraffes.jpg 2084w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/giraffes-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/giraffes-768x607.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/giraffes-1024x810.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alfred Edmund Brehm, <i>Giraffes<\/i>, 1893.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The British monarchy is one of those institutions whose endurance serves as its justification\u2014like <small>NASCAR<\/small> or mall Santas, it\u2019s so deeply entrenched that you can sometimes go for whole years without realizing how ridiculous it is. But Tanya Gold, wandering Buckingham Palace (\u201cThere is something pathetic about a fiercely vacuumed throne room\u201d) knows full well what an asinine spectacle the queen is: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2016\/02\/the-queen-and-i\/\" target=\"_blank\">She does not make mistakes. We are applauding an absence of something. It is very British to salute a void. Everyone can agree on its merits<\/a> \u2026 The Queen walks a slender line between monotony and the sublime. She has managed this contortion by remaining largely silent for eighty-nine years\u2014a good mirror will grant a reflection to anyone who walks past\u2014and, more important, by giving the impression that she does not want the job \u2026 This, though, is the central pillar of Elizabeth II\u2019s myth: the Queen as victim. You can get away with anything if people think you are doing it for their sakes.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In promoting <em>Swing Time<\/em>, Zadie Smith has found she gets one question over and over: \u201cIn your earlier novels you sounded so optimistic, but now your books are tinged with despair. Is this fair to say?\u201d Her answer: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2016\/12\/22\/on-optimism-and-despair\/\" target=\"_blank\">I believe in human limitation, not out of any sense of fatalism but out of a learned caution, gleaned from both recent and distant history<\/a>. We will never be perfect: that is our limitation. But we can have, and have had, moments in which we can take genuine pride. I took pride in my neighborhood, in my childhood, back in 1999. It was not perfect but it was filled with possibility. If the clouds have rolled in over my fiction it is not because what was perfect has been proved empty but because what was becoming possible\u2014and is still experienced as possible by millions\u2014is now denied as if it never did and never could exist.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I, too, am \u201ctinged with despair.\u201d And not just for the usual reasons. I don\u2019t normally use this space to keep you abreast of endangered species, but fuck it\u2014the world\u2019s gone to hell and now we\u2019re losing giraffes. So listen up, because these are the giraffe facts: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2016\/12\/the-fall-of-the-giraffe\/510062\/\" target=\"_blank\">In just 30 years, the giraffe population has fallen up to 40 percent, from between 152,000 and 163,000 animals in 1985 to just 98,000 in 2015<\/a>.\u00a0This dramatic decline\u00a0is reflected in the\u00a0latest edition of the Red List of Threatened Species\u2014the ever-depressing inventory in which the International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the world\u2019s wildlife into various shades of screwed. Giraffes used to be in the safest bracket: \u2018Least Concern.\u2019 As of this week, they\u2019ve been shunted into \u2018Vulnerable\u2019\u2014a two-step demotion, and four steps away from total extinction.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In which Jonathan Blitzer strolls around the Frick\u00a0Museum with Javier Mar\u00edas: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/persons-of-interest\/the-worldly-digressions-of-javier-marias\" target=\"_blank\">Mar\u00edas likes to quote\u00a0Laurence Sterne to describe his craft: \u2018I progress as I digress.\u2019<\/a> When a dramatic event occurs in one of his novels, it\u2019s usually as a prelude to a string of rambling anecdotes or some lengthy existential musing \u2026 In person, Mar\u00edas can seem a little withdrawn, as if visiting from another era; he is almost always photographed in his study, with a cigarette trailing smoke and a wall of books behind him. On the page, he is expansive and unrestrained. In addition to publishing more than a dozen novels, he has spent the past two decades writing a column for\u00a0<em>El Pa\u00eds\u00a0<\/em>that ranges from art criticism to screeds against bicycle traffic \u2026 Mar\u00edas is a pedigreed leftist of the old school, which occasionally makes him a target, as much for his style as for his politics, for the younger generation. One critic recently wrote, on a popular Spanish blog, that \u2018Mar\u00edas does what no one does better: turn politics into a fusty egotrip.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Earlier this week I mentioned Fidel Castro\u2019s connection to Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, for whom the dictator served as a sometime copy editor. But there\u2019s more: the Harry Ransom Center has M\u00e1rquez\u2019s\u00a0library, and somebody has turned up a monogrammed Castro handkerchief hiding out in one of his books. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hrc.utexas.edu\/2016\/12\/01\/republic-of-letters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Castro inscribed four books in the collection, two for Mercedes and two for \u2018Gabo.\u2019<\/a> There are few materials that I have worked with that have inspired awe in the same way as coming across this embroidered handkerchief laid in to a copy of\u00a0<em>La historia me absolver\u00e1.<\/em>Printed in 1973, in Cuba, the title is already scarce in the United States, but the inscription and handkerchief make this volume a priceless and a fascinating piece of history.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This and more in today\u2019s roundup of arts and culture news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[26147,17105,26149,22220,567,3071,26148,3975,26146,22037,1079],"class_list":["post-105668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-buckingham-palace","tag-despair","tag-endangered-species","tag-extinction","tag-fidel-castro","tag-gabriel-garcia-marquez","tag-giraffes","tag-javier-marias","tag-monarchy","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-zadie-smith"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>There Are Plenty of Things to Despair About. 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