{"id":61492,"date":"2013-10-18T13:47:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T17:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=61492"},"modified":"2013-10-18T13:08:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T17:08:58","slug":"what-were-loving-the-new-york-review-baghdad-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/18\/what-were-loving-the-new-york-review-baghdad-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"What We\u2019re Loving: <em>The New York Review<\/em>, Baghdad, Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AT_Mann_Gulch_tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61494\" alt=\"AT_Mann_Gulch_tree\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AT_Mann_Gulch_tree.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The funny thing about the <em>New York Review<\/em>\u2019s fiftieth anniversary issue is that it\u2019s basically just a slightly fatter version of the normal product. Here\u2019s Zadie Smith on girl-watching with her father. Here\u2019s Frederick Seidel with a poem I badly wish we\u2019d published ourselves. Here\u2019s Chabon on Pynchon, Mendelsohn on <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>, and Timothy Garton-Ash writing (unenviably and with aplomb) on the ethos of the <em>Review<\/em> itself. Here\u2019s Justice Stephen Breyer discussing Proust with a French journalist (Breyer turns out to be the only person about whom one is actually glad to know how Proust changed his life), plus Richard Holmes on Keats, Diane Johnson on MFA programs, Adam Shatz on Charlie Parker, Coetzee on Patrick White\u2014and this is just the beginning. (As usual, I\u2019m saving the politics for last.) There is one discovery I have to single out. In 1949 the German novelist Hans Keilson published one of the stranger World War II novels ever written, a novel later translated into English under the enigmatic title <em>The Death of the Adversary<\/em>. Thanks to Claire Messud\u2019s beautiful essay on Camus, I think I may know where Keilson\u2019s translator got the phrase. Camus, 1945: \u201cI am not made for politics, because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.\u201d Thank you, Ms. Messud. Thank you, <em>New York Review<\/em>. <strong>\u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Has any city been so cursed by history and so blessed in its poets as Baghdad? Reuven Snir, a scholar with family roots in Baghdad\u2019s Jewish community, has edited and translated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0674725212\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0674725212&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Baghdad: The City in Verse<\/em><\/a>, an anthology of poems from the eighth century to the present, which has been my bedside reading for the last week. There are poems of debauchery (\u201cBaghdad is not an abode for hermits,\u201d an early poet warns his readers), nostalgia, and lament. The mournful note is especially strong in the later poems. But it is already there in Ishaq al-Khuraymi\u2019s \u201cElegy for Baghdad,\u201d a lament written in the aftermath of a civil war, which remembers a city \u201csurrounded by vineyards, palm trees, and basil,\u201d but now sees a wasteland of widows and dry wells, with \u201cthe city split into groups, \/ the connections between them cut off.\u201d The Mongol invasion of 1258, when tradition says the Tigris ran black with the ink of books and red with the blood of scholars, was still four hundred years away. <strong>\u2014Robyn Creswell<\/strong> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Gondal was the imaginary world created by the Bront\u00eb sisters in their youth. Just south of the island was Gaaldine, to which Gerald Murnane alludes\u00a0in \u201cThe Interior of Gaaldine,\u201d one of the stories included in the recent issue of\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/musicandliterature.org\/issues\/number-three-murnane-godar-bittova\/\" target=\"_blank\">Music &amp; Literature<\/a><\/i>. In \u201cGaaldine,\u201d Murnane decides to stop writing a book he realizes has become too unwieldy. However, as in much of Murnane\u2019s work, there\u2019s more than one reality. \u201cI was about to give almost too much away,\u201d he writes, \u201cnot some secret, horrible sexual urge or something, but too much about my central tenets or dreams.\u201d Murnane is infamous for his personal archive, cabinets of files on subjects like \u201cpeople who might have loved me\u201d and \u201cshame.\u201d He is as comfortable in his quotidian, real-life existence (he has never left his home country of Australia) as the fantastical (he has taught himself Hungarian but has no intention of visiting the European country). And his lack of travel has never stopped Murnane from writing about foreign lands. In\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1564787176\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1564787176&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\">Inland<\/a><\/i>, published last year by Dalkey, Australia merges into South Dakota which then becomes the Hungarian\u00a0Alf\u00f6ld; the whole time, the narrator sits alone in a room full of books. As he remarks, \u201cI have sometimes heard in this room an echo of a sound from a word in a language other than my own.\u201d <strong>\u2014Justin Alvarez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I used to work in the woods; not anymore. These days, I\u2019m doing all I can to become an effete New Yorker. But sometimes, when I\u2019m not busy having my toenails buffed, or lamenting last night\u2019s sub-par <i>unagi<\/i>, I like to reminisce. And in those moments, I reread what remains the best account of U.S. Forest Service life: Norman Maclean\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780226500614?aff=theparisreview\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Young Men and Fire<\/i><\/a>. This is the story of the Mann Gulch Fire, and of the thirteen smokejumpers (wildland firefighters who parachute into particularly inaccessible terrain) who lost their lives on a Montana hillside on August 5, 1949. Maclean, a veteran of the Forest Service who became an English professor at the University of Chicago, unpacks the drama in measured prose so deadpan that the occasional flashes of humor are easy to miss: \u201cAs in life generally, it is most common to land in grass that thinly covers very hard rocks.\u201d But of course, it isn\u2019t a funny story. It is, at its heart, a mystery; how did topography, light fuels, and a shifting wind conspire to turn a routine assignment into a fatal afternoon? <strong>\u2014Fritz Huber<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funny thing about the New York Review\u2019s fiftieth anniversary issue is that it\u2019s basically just a slightly fatter version of the normal product. Here\u2019s Zadie Smith on girl-watching with her father. Here\u2019s Frederick Seidel with a poem I badly wish we\u2019d published ourselves. 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