The New York Review of Books

Bamfordtown

Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford You Are (a Comedy) Special: A Simple 15-Step Self-Help Guide to Forcibly Force Yourself to Write and Perform a Full Hour of Stand-Up Comedy by...

Henry James’s ‘Dear Native Land’

Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age by Peter Brooks The Correction of Taste: On the Late Novels of Henry James by Denis Donoghue, with a foreword by Colm Tóibín

James Gleick: Betraying the Internet’s Promise

Fintan O’Toole: What Is Wrong with the Democrats?

An Epistolary Critic

The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays by Guy Davenport Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner edited by Edward M. Burns Guy Davenport and James Laughlin: Selected Letters editedbyW.C.Bamberger I Remember This...

Jacob Weisberg: The Algorithms Controlling Our Attention

Neal Ascherson:

The Secrets of a Lithuanian Forest Dorothy Sue Cobble: A Woman’s Work Uncompensated Gregory Hays: Collecting the Caesars with Mary Beard Scott Stern: ‘Who Would Believe a Prisoner?’ Brenda Wineapple: Mike Wallace’s Wartime New York Frances Wilson:...

WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT THAT JOB?

BEVERLY DANIEL TATUM College Leadership in Turbulent Times “Peril and Promise has lessons for anyone who cares about colleges and universities and how to change them for the better.” —MICHAEL S. ROTH, President, Wesleyan University “With American...

SHIFTING SANDS

“Scheele’s book presents a detailed, often gritty, picture of a fragile world. Her travels trace the web of exchanges, linguistic and material, that crisscross a harsh, vast, and sometimes impassable terrain .... A clear-sighted and unsentimental study...

Peter Canby: Who Shot Padre Marcelo?

Mohamed Choukri’s Unromantic Tangier Ursula Lindsey

For Bread Alone by Mohamed Choukri, translated from the Arabic by Paul Bowles In Tangier by Mohamed Choukri, translated from the Arabic by Paul Bowles, Gretchen Head, and John Garrett Tales of Tangier by Mohamed Choukri, translated from the Arabic...

Novels Without Food

Chevengur by Andrey Platonov, translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov, translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, and Olga Meerson Happy Moscow by Andrey...

Doing Their Own Research

Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists and the New Order in Wellness by Stewart Home

Julian Bell: Kentridge, Bosch, and Political Disaster

Omer Bartov

‘Infinite License’ Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism by Rachel Shabi Gaza Faces History by Enzo Traverso, translated from the French by Willard Wood Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter Beinart The World After Gaza...

Wendy Doniger: History Before & After Horses Michael Gorra: Caspar David Friedrich’s Natural Cathedrals Cathleen Schine: Eavesdropping on Hanif Kureishi Christian Caryl: Germany’s Postwar Awakening Geoffrey O’Brien: Lush, Unexpected 1950s Hollywood

Sally Rooney: Snooker and the Games We Play

Caravaggio Lost and Found

Caravaggio: The ‘Ecce Homo’ Unveiled an exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid Catalog of the exhibition edited by Keith Christiansen, Gianni Papi, Giuseppe Porzio, and Maria Cristina Terzaghi Caravaggio: The Portrait Unveiled an...

SUMMER OF FIRE AND BLOOD

“Summer of Fire and Blood is an extraordinary and brilliant book .... A profound account of an attempt to change the world, a sensational narrative that is both human and humane, illuminating, resonant, and unsettling.” —HELEN CASTOR, author of...

The New York Review of Books

Elaine Blair: The Boundaries of Consent James Shapiro: Romeo & Juliet with Stuffed Animals Peter Brooks: Balzac’s Passionate Abdications Adam Hochschild: The Fears Behind the Scopes Trial Sarah Kaufman: Alexei Ratmansky’s Living Dances Trevor...

MARK O'CONNELL: A CONVERSATION WITH RASHID KHALIDI

MARK O'CINNELL: A CONVERSATION WITH RASHID KHALIDI

The Second Coming

Karl Marx famously wrote that “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Donald Trump’s crushing victory over Kamala...

THE ELECTION ISSUE

Marilynne Robinson Laurence Tribe Pankaj Mishra Anne Enright Matthew Desmond Elaine Blair Jonathan Stevenson Steven Simon Christine Henneberg Nathaniel Rich Mark Danner Christopher Browning Sue Halpern Mark Lilla Susan Faludi Jed...

Verlyn Klinkenborg: Fathoming Our Oceans Aryeh Neier:

The Hell of Israel’s Prisons Christopher Tayler: Anne Enright’s Problematic Men Gary Younge: The Summer of Britain’s Discontent Anahid Nersessian: Fady Joudah’s Impossible Resurrections Beatrice Radden Keefe: 1,300 Years of Riches at Reichenau

Tareq Baconi: Exile in Palestine, Again and Again

Fintan O’Toole: The Democrats Unite! Kathryn Hughes: Women Scribbling into the Drawer Linda Greenhouse: Our Unaccountable Sheriffs Daphne Merkin: Whose Art Deserves Reviving? Matthew Desmond: The Preacher Staring Poverty in the Face Wallace Shawn:...

VERTIGO

“Vertigo is outstandingly readable. It’s an entertaining map of fifteen crucial years of Europe’s history, but it also functions, as the author no doubt intended it to, as a super-vivid then-to-now translation of how easily dictatorship roots itself...

Contributors

Christopher Benfey is a writer and critic based in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is the author of Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay, a family memoir. Victoria Chang’s latest book of poems is With My Back to the World. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry...

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