https://www.nybooks.com en-US Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:45:35 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/26/a-plum-assignment-lena-beug-jason-logan/ The cover for our Fall Books Issue—a painting of ripe purple plums in a punnet, surrounded by hand-painted cover lines—was an unexpected collaboration between the Irish-born New Yorker Lena Beug, a commercials director, and the Canadian Jason Logan, who makes ink from natural pigments that he forages from rural and urban environments.  I had assigned the […]]]> Lena Beug, Jason Logan, Leanne Shapton Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:30:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/26/a-plum-assignment-lena-beug-jason-logan/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/23/lucy-sante-on-pauline-kael-film-criticism-and-pop-culture/ In the second season premiere of Private Life, host Jarrett Earnest is joined by the writer and critic Lucy Sante to discuss Pauline Kael’s career, pop culture writing, and Sante’s writing for the Review, where she has been a frequent contributor since the 1980s. The conversation focuses on “The Perils of Pauline” (published in the […]]]> Lucy Sante, Jarrett Earnest Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:24:11 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/23/lucy-sante-on-pauline-kael-film-criticism-and-pop-culture/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/23/sand-castles-la-derive-delsol/ To begin, a guessing game. The February 1967 issue of Cahiers du cinéma includes a “Dictionary of New French Cinema” comprising capsule commentaries on 157 directors. One of these offers the following superlative assessment: “She remains (now alongside Marguerite Duras) the greatest female auteur of our cinema.” Naming the recipient of this praise shouldn’t be […]]]> Erika Balsom Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:22:46 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/23/sand-castles-la-derive-delsol/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/19/certain-grain-of-stupidity-christopher-alessandrini/ In 1961, on a barrier island off the coast of Georgia, Eleanor “Sandy” Torrey West and her husband founded a residency, the Ossabaw Island Project (OIP). As Christopher Alessandrini writes in our October 8 issue, the island—which West had inherited from her patrician parents—was “a patchwork landscape of salt marshes and maritime forests, tidal creeks […]]]> Christopher Alessandrini, Nandini Krishnan Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:45:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/19/certain-grain-of-stupidity-christopher-alessandrini/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/nothing-stays-buried-ritz-of-the-bayou-nancy-lemann/ Nancy Lemann sets her sad screwball novels of manners in the closed-off world of upper-crust white New Orleans that she grew up in.]]> Michael Gorra Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/nothing-stays-buried-ritz-of-the-bayou-nancy-lemann/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/tujunga-jessica-laser/ As blood is brought where infection is So was I brought to Los Angeles Toting only my REI membership card And University of California ID “Access the inaccessible” My headlamp quibbled But I didn’t need its LEDs To see them, the coyotes, Rip the heads from Griffin’s chickens In broad daylight when I’d let them […]]]> Jessica Laser Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/tujunga-jessica-laser/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/war-games-yara-zgheib/ My father brought books to the basement. During the air raids we read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Treasure Island, Around the World in Eighty Days, and ate feasts my mother made with dry goods and powdered milk: rice pudding, “béchamel” spaghetti, in one large aluminum pot over a small gas burner, sandwiches of […]]]> Yara Zgheib Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/war-games-yara-zgheib/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/sad-maxxing-ashton-politanoff/ Ashton Politanoff's new novel tells the story of sad dads and washed-up jocks vying for a phantom ideal of masculinity.]]> Anahid Nersessian Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/sad-maxxing-ashton-politanoff/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/i-taste-ashes-in-the-wind-nuclear-weapons-jerry-brown/ Ever since the end of the cold war, the subject of nuclear war and the profound threat it poses to humanity has suffered a “peculiar invisibility.” This is the phrase the German philosopher Günther Anders used in his book The Obsolescence of the Human (1956) to illuminate the roots of the “Apokalypse-Blindheit”—“apocalypse blindness”—that had begun […]]]> Jerry Brown Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/i-taste-ashes-in-the-wind-nuclear-weapons-jerry-brown/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/de-kooning-draws-a-picture/ Willem de Kooning's works on paper document his efforts to find ways of retaining both image and abstraction, depth and flatness.]]> Jarrett Earnest Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/de-kooning-draws-a-picture/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/the-slaves-power-moving-toward-freedom-terrible-intimacy/ Two recent books employ inventive approaches to read against the grain of the archive of slavery produced by those who built and benefited from it.]]> Drew Gilpin Faust Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/the-slaves-power-moving-toward-freedom-terrible-intimacy/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/writing-on-one-table-charles-and-mary-lamb/ Charles Lamb’s camp, mischievous, melancholic alter ego, Elia, owes much to his sister, Mary, with whom he lived for forty years, absorbing her “rambling chat.”]]> Frances Wilson Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/writing-on-one-table-charles-and-mary-lamb/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/posterity-avenged-him-the-power-of-life-riskin/ In a society still solidly creationist in outlook, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was the first working scientist to embrace the modern idea that species or lineages of organisms can evolve over time.]]> Ian Tattersall Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/posterity-avenged-him-the-power-of-life-riskin/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/the-strange-music-of-mario-vargas-llosa-i-give-you-my-silence/ When Mario Vargas Llosa announced in October 2023 that his new novel, Le dedico mi silencio—now published in English as I Give You My Silence—would be his last, I was intrigued by what that farewell to fiction might involve. How would this prodigious author of eighteen other novels—among them the most adventuresome in the Latin […]]]> Ariel Dorfman Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/the-strange-music-of-mario-vargas-llosa-i-give-you-my-silence/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/flow-chart-of-paris-riverwork-lisa-robertson/ Books are no substitute for experience, and yet for most of us certain places are either out of reach or too expensive to inhabit for more than a tourist’s week or two; we nourish and enhance our geographic obsessions by reading. Paris is one of the great destinations not only of the traveler but of […]]]> Ange Mlinko Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/flow-chart-of-paris-riverwork-lisa-robertson/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/dudamels-new-york-dream-philharmonic/ The concert orchestra is an American specialty. Theodore Thomas, whose touring Thomas Orchestra, founded in 1862, was the first world-class New World symphonic ensemble, preached, “A symphony orchestra shows the culture of a community, not opera.” Thomas performed Beethoven in cities large and small, coast to coast, north to south. In 1891 he became the […]]]> Joseph Horowitz Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/dudamels-new-york-dream-philharmonic/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/can-resistance-be-copied-if-we-burn-vincent-bevins/ From 2010 to 2020, more people crowded onto the streets around the world to protest than at any other time in known history. Starting with what is often called the Arab Spring and ending with the Black Lives Matter protests that followed George Floyd’s murder in 2020, the demonstrations—dense, synchronized, and persistent—dwarfed older, briefer moments […]]]> Rachel Nolan Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/can-resistance-be-copied-if-we-burn-vincent-bevins/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/mother-country-taryn-simon/ When I was nine, I helped my father build a life-size replica of the intelligence officer Jim Thompson’s Bangkok living room in our home. We listened to “Mother Country” and “Chantilly Lace” while cutting teak down to size and staining it to make Jim’s gridded wall panels and the raised thresholds he used to block […]]]> Taryn Simon Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/mother-country-taryn-simon/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/the-road-to-bent-on-the-boardwalk-martin-sherman/ Very occasionally a play has a significance beyond the confines of the theater. Beaumarchais’s Le Mariage de Figaro (1778) sounded the death knell of the feudal droit du seigneur. Le Roi s’amuse (1832), Victor Hugo’s savage exposé of Louis Philippe’s corrupt monarchy, was banned after a single performance. Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts (1881) devastatingly dramatized the […]]]> Simon Callow Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/the-road-to-bent-on-the-boardwalk-martin-sherman/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/fleshing-it-out-gladys-nilsson/ The artist Gladys Nilsson is one of our great watercolorists, and also one of our great mannerists. Mannerist in the sense that she distorts human proportions to stay true both to some private vision and to that very public fact of life, bodily strangeness. On the left side of her tall and hectic watercolor Caught […]]]> Walker Mimms Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/fleshing-it-out-gladys-nilsson/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/devils-in-america-roy-cohn-bird-goldmark/ Toward the end of his biography of Roy Cohn, written with his wife, Susan Goldmark, Kai Bird quotes the editor and publisher Jason Epstein: “In a way, he’s not real, he has no substance.” On the other hand, a note to the list of characters for Tony Kushner’s landmark drama Angels in America (1991), written […]]]> Fintan O’Toole Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/devils-in-america-roy-cohn-bird-goldmark/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/15/doing-business-with-the-devil/ Aside from being a modern morality tale, American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark,1 might be seen as a veritable inversion of Bird’s earlier work American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which he wrote with Martin J. Sherwin. That book, […]]]> Martin Filler Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/15/doing-business-with-the-devil/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/12/comics-relief-lucas-adams/ In late August, Coyote vs. Acme, a feature-length treatment of the eponymous coyote’s eternally thwarted efforts to eat the Road Runner, finally opened in theaters, years after the artless CEO of Warner Brothers Discovery determined never to release it. “Coyote vs. Acme takes a lesson from the darkness of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?,” Lucas Adams writes in […]]]> Lucas Adams, Daniel Drake Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:30:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/12/comics-relief-lucas-adams/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/12/in-billys-band/ Among the many astonishing moments in Get Back—the 2021 documentary that Peter Jackson made from rehearsal footage of the Beatles in January 1969, bickering like siblings as they created some of the songs that would find immortality on the albums Let It Be and Abbey Road—one of the most magical involves the underappreciated musician Billy […]]]> Brian Seibert Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/12/in-billys-band/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/10/i-wish-you-love-dolly-parton/ On the day after she graduated high school, in 1964, Dolly Parton left her hometown of Locust Ridge, Tennessee, to head for Nashville, just over two hundred miles west and a world apart. Six years later she returned to her alma mater, Sevier County High School, to give a concert, which was recorded as her […]]]> Jarrett Earnest Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/10/i-wish-you-love-dolly-parton/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/08/subject-relations-anna-silman/ We try to end each season of The Critic and Her Publics with a little twist on our theme—something different and, often, a little risky or uncomfortable. Our final guest, Anna Silman, interviewed and profiled me for Business Insider several years ago. Back then, when Twitter was still called Twitter, it was possible for a […]]]> Merve Emre, Anna Silman Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/08/subject-relations-anna-silman/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/05/society-gumbo-piper-french/ In 1951 the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that “in Sausalito people live on anything that floats.” Those midcentury houseboat dwellers were the antecedents of Marin County’s “anchor-outs,” people who live on the anchorage in Richardson Bay and therefore, as Piper French writes in her review of Joe Kloc’s Lost at Sea in our September 24 […]]]> Piper French, Maggie McGowan Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:30:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/05/society-gumbo-piper-french/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/05/an-exception-in-world-affairs-ratko-mladic/ Ratko Mladić’s death last week at eighty-three in The Hague—where he was serving a life sentence for committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide as the commander of the Bosnian Serb forces during the war in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995—is a reminder that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was the […]]]> Aryeh Neier Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:28:05 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/05/an-exception-in-world-affairs-ratko-mladic/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/an-ecosystem-of-her-own-maren-hassinger/ Maren Hassinger’s alchemical touch transforms the most resistant materials into evocations of the endlessly changing natural world.]]> Carolina A. Miranda Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/an-ecosystem-of-her-own-maren-hassinger/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/the-dartmouth-exception-sian-beilock/ Among its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to.]]> Jacob Weisberg Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/the-dartmouth-exception-sian-beilock/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/a-fury-of-dark-energies-peter-matthiessen-true-nature/ A biography of Peter Matthiessen captures his antithetical actions and character while never losing sight of his ardent attentiveness to the natural world.]]> Joy Williams Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/a-fury-of-dark-energies-peter-matthiessen-true-nature/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/wishing-it-so-meghan-ogieblyn/ As AI erodes our attention spans and expressiveness, philosophers like Simone Weil and Arthur Schopenhauer offer profound insights on what it means to be an individual.]]> Meghan O’Gieblyn Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/wishing-it-so-meghan-ogieblyn/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/chills-of-the-unsaid-the-palm-house-gwendoline-riley/ In its skewering of London’s literary egos, Gwendoline Riley’s The Palm House takes a step away from her previous parent-dominated novels, but it too is told by a middle-aged woman struggling to come to terms with her childhood and adolescence.]]> Miranda Seymour Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/chills-of-the-unsaid-the-palm-house-gwendoline-riley/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/when-luther-vandrosss-father-puts-a-dollar-under-his-sons-pillow-sharon-olds/ When our kids were young, I thought I was going to be as good a parent to them as my parents had not been to me—maybe exactly as good. On the radio, as I drive, a father is putting a sign of kindness under his boy’s sleeping head, I am on a dirt road, I […]]]> Sharon Olds Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/when-luther-vandrosss-father-puts-a-dollar-under-his-sons-pillow-sharon-olds/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/venezuela-under-the-rubble-william-neuman/ This summer’s earthquakes exposed the hollow core of the country’s new, Trump-instated government, leaving ordinary citizens all but alone in recovering from catastrophe.]]> William Neuman Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/venezuela-under-the-rubble-william-neuman/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/upstate-jeffrey-yang/ How far do you have to go before the state turns up? Verily, verily along the river and back to the plots of native shrubs and vines by these hills or mountains. While duties are confused with tariffs for the safety of a bowling ball, the world spins on thin ice. It being harder, the […]]]> Jeffrey Yang Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/upstate-jeffrey-yang/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/the-village-photographer-madeleine-de-sinety/ Madeleine de Sinéty sloughed off her aristocratic upbringing and spent her life capturing small-town life in Brittany and Maine.]]> Felix Bazalgette Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/the-village-photographer-madeleine-de-sinety/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/where-hatred-lies-on-antisemitism-mark-mazower/ A nuanced new history by Mark Mazower reminds us that antisemitism, an age-old threat to Jewish life, can be warped into a political tool—as we see today, when any criticism of Israel can be deemed antisemitic.]]> Omer Bartov Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/where-hatred-lies-on-antisemitism-mark-mazower/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/sittin-on-the-dock-of-the-bay-lost-at-sea-joe-kloc/ Joe Kloc’s portrait of a group of outsiders living on boats in Marin County provides a record of a community many wish would quietly disappear.]]> Piper French Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/sittin-on-the-dock-of-the-bay-lost-at-sea-joe-kloc/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/the-jealousy-comes-from-nowhere-winters-tale-delacorte-theater/ For actors in The Winter’s Tale, the fractured marriage at the center of the play is a barometer of relationships in our own time.]]> James Shapiro Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/the-jealousy-comes-from-nowhere-winters-tale-delacorte-theater/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/unraveling-medical-mysteries-elusive-body-sifferlin/ Patients with undiagnosed conditions suffer not only from their symptoms but also from the uncertainly of not knowing what afflicts them.]]> Jerome Groopman Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/unraveling-medical-mysteries-elusive-body-sifferlin/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/cherchez-les-femmes-female-perspective-museo-del-prado/ A new initiative at the Prado calls visitors’ attention to the many works in the collection acquired by royal women.]]> Ingrid D. Rowland Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/cherchez-les-femmes-female-perspective-museo-del-prado/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/is-morality-universal-the-diversity-of-morals-lukes/ In The Diversity of Morals, Steven Lukes attempts to reconcile philosophical arguments that there is one morality despite cultural differences with empirical studies that suggest it’s all relative.]]> Susan Neiman Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/is-morality-universal-the-diversity-of-morals-lukes/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/and-yet-it-warms-federal-judges-and-climate-change/ A new edition of a manual that helps federal judges understand scientific subjects included a chapter on climate change that was withdrawn after attacks by denialists.]]> Jed S. Rakoff Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/and-yet-it-warms-federal-judges-and-climate-change/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/looking-class-the-connoisseur-the-goldsmiths-debt/ Timely questions lurk at the heart of connoisseurship: What counts as originality, what value do we place on it, how do we protect it?]]> Susan Tallman Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/looking-class-the-connoisseur-the-goldsmiths-debt/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/data-and-dames-cloudthief-nathaniel-rich/ In Nathaniel Rich’s Cloudthief, a heist and a femme fatale plunge an ecojournalist into an all-too-real climate collapse.]]> James Walton Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/data-and-dames-cloudthief-nathaniel-rich/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/september-october-november-lawrence-joseph/ And then having been surgically put to a robotic knife. The body’s fate objectified in an online medical chart. Your Exam Images Click Here to View Your Images. Duodenal tubular adenoma. Impression: no evidence of recurrent or metastatic disease. Coronal and sagittal reconstructions were performed. This fluid collection is noted immediately adjacent to the pancreatico- […]]]> Lawrence Joseph Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/september-october-november-lawrence-joseph/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/farinelli-david-pollard/ The beauty of that voice is paradoxical, slicing the flesh into a sound of ghostly fire beyond relinquishment. It is the dying fall, the little death that passes into tremors of the air, a tender blade, corporeal; steeped in an alchemy of milk and opiates of wine drunk with the sacrifice of such white humors. […]]]> David Pollard Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/farinelli-david-pollard/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/01/itching-for-a-fight-isaac-chotiner-merve-emre/ I don’t understand why people talk to Isaac Chotiner. His reputation as the best interviewer-assassin at work today—maybe ever—precedes him. I suspect that each guest thinks he will be the one to finally best Chotiner. And he makes good use of this hubris. He calmly and respectfully dismantles the tendentious arguments people make about everything […]]]> Merve Emre, Isaac Chotiner Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/09/01/itching-for-a-fight-isaac-chotiner-merve-emre/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/qusra-under-siege-david-shulman/ Another Palestinian village in the West Bank has been attacked by Israeli settlers. The lack of response by the army and police reveals how deeply corrupted they are by the colonialist agenda.]]> David Shulman Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/09/24/qusra-under-siege-david-shulman/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/08/30/every-tiny-molecule-of-ash-delhi-protests/ On a muggy morning in late July, when tens of thousands of protesters thronged to central New Delhi to head toward parliament, they seemed to already have a sense that their march might be historic. Most were students and young graduates, many of whom had traveled from towns hundreds of miles away to attend their […]]]> Poorna Swami Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:38:33 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/08/30/every-tiny-molecule-of-ash-delhi-protests/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/08/30/youll-never-catch-him-coyote-vs-acme-road-runner/ Paul Julian just wanted everyone to get out of the way. Maneuvering down the narrow hallways on the Warner Brothers studio lot while carrying a very long, freshly painted background, the artist (who had worked as a WPA muralist before his animation gig) would emit a car horn–esque “beep-beep” to warn his colleagues of his […]]]> Lucas Adams Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/08/30/youll-never-catch-him-coyote-vs-acme-road-runner/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/08/29/expatriate-dreams-nahid-siamdoust/ “It was out of estisal that some Iranians chose war,” writes Nahid Siamdoust in the NYR Online. Estisal, which, loosely translated from Persian, means “having no options” or a state of helplessness, is also, she contends, what has made some Iranians vulnerable to the disinformation being spread by both state and private media—a perhaps more […]]]> Nahid Siamdoust, Janhavi Munde Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:30:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/08/29/expatriate-dreams-nahid-siamdoust/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/the-center-of-all-creation/ For the artists and intellectuals who lived there across two decades of pioneering residency programs, Georgia’s Ossabaw Island was a potent source of inspiration.]]> Christopher Alessandrini Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:46:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/10/08/the-center-of-all-creation/