https://www.nybooks.com en-US Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:38:52 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/26/vengeance-is-theirs/ As if to counterweight the gentle, tender-hearted Shakespeare of the film Hamnet, now the brutal and bloody Titus Andronicus has arrived in New York, in an impressive Red Bull Theater production. A content advisory provided by Red Bull lists the kind of material to which the play exposes us: “violence, sexual violence, murder, mutilation, racism, […]]]> James Romm Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/26/vengeance-is-theirs/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/25/we-goofed/ Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in New Haven, Connecticut, is a temple. Although the Beinecke is cuboid it has the atmosphere of a pyramid, flanked in faintly translucent marble slabs that suck light into the building and radiate it outward at the same time. A new literary exhibition, “‘Beauties of My Style’: […]]]> Jo Livingstone Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:56:52 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/25/we-goofed/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/manet-and-morisot-game-on-tallman/ An important exhibition showcases a painterly repartee that altered the trajectory of the two artists’ work and, by extension, modern art itself.]]> Susan Tallman Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/manet-and-morisot-game-on-tallman/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/a-vital-unconscious-wifredo-lam/ Wifredo Lam’s paintings spring from a unique synthesis of European modernism and Afro-Cuban consciousness.]]> Coco Fusco Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/a-vital-unconscious-wifredo-lam/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/art-for-our-age-of-chaos-new-humans-new-museum-whitney-biennial/ The 2026 Whitney Biennial and the New Museum’s exhibition “New Humans; Memories of the Future” are attempts to respond to a world full of darkness, trauma, and strife.]]> Jed Perl Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/art-for-our-age-of-chaos-new-humans-new-museum-whitney-biennial/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/pentimenti-paul-muldoon/ It was Jan van Eyck who first sent a ripplethrough greater Bruges by banishing both streakand stipple in a truly historicmoment that saw him painting “fat on lean”and leaving no trace of a brush stroke on either a girl’s sleek loinor the streamlined carcass of a bowhead whale.The process of scouring lanolin from sheep’s woolmay […]]]> Paul Muldoon Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/pentimenti-paul-muldoon/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/ladder-to-the-moon/ after Georgia O’Keeffe, 1958                      Soaked in the information of stillness, I found the moon too chaste—cut at the sourceof its language.                                                    Night, green with blue:ready for the ladder’s famebefore mountains turned                into an idée fixe. Months into my sea               psyche, I still wake up                with this land in my head—cornered somewhere, missing a wall                                                         or some edge, a […]]]> Fiona Sze-Lorrain Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/ladder-to-the-moon/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/visions-of-depravity-ceija-stojka-making-visible/ On Ceija Stojka at the Drawing Center]]> Ben Davis Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/visions-of-depravity-ceija-stojka-making-visible/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/inflatable-life-paul-chan-automa-mon-amour/ On Paul Chan at Greene Naftali]]> Dawn Chan Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/inflatable-life-paul-chan-automa-mon-amour/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/seeing-by-hand-june-leaf/ “I feel my fingers have eyes,” June Leaf once said. The need to literally feel her way through her work is a primary subject of her art.]]> Nicole Rudick Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/seeing-by-hand-june-leaf/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/charlatans-bores-on-pedantry-visser/ The profile of the pedant has changed surprisingly across time periods and cultures, but what’s constant is that nobody wants to be called one.]]> Clare Bucknell Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/charlatans-bores-on-pedantry-visser/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/drawn-to-the-void-wright-of-derby/ John Wright of Derby introduced chiaroscuro to British audiences, using everything from blazing bladders to ivory planets to illuminate his dazzled subjects. ]]> Julian Bell Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/drawn-to-the-void-wright-of-derby/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/the-music-of-what-happens-poems-of-seamus-heaney/ Seamus Heaney’s complete poems, following on editions of his letters, prose, and translations, confirm the extent of his achievement.]]> Nick Laird Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/the-music-of-what-happens-poems-of-seamus-heaney/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-david-adjaye-princeton-collects/ Three high-profile buildings by the eminent Ghanian British architect have just been completed, but allegations of sexual misconduct have severely damaged his prospects for future commissions.]]> Martin Filler Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-david-adjaye-princeton-collects/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/how-should-a-pixel-be-dry-leaf-koberidze/ Every low-resolution frame of Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf, shot on a mobile phone nearly twenty-years-old, enacts a drama of form.]]> Dennis Lim Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/how-should-a-pixel-be-dry-leaf-koberidze/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/the-masked-avengers-how-to-be-a-guerrilla-girl/ The Guerrilla Girls used indisputable data and a dry, polished style to show that the art world, contrary to its self-conception, was deeply retrograde.]]> Elaine Blair Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/the-masked-avengers-how-to-be-a-guerrilla-girl/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/londons-brutal-underground-london-falling-radden-keefe/ In Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling, an ordinary boy’s deadly obsession with the ultrarich reveals deeper corruption at the heart of modern London.]]> Mark O’Connell Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/londons-brutal-underground-london-falling-radden-keefe/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/this-bitter-earth-salt-lakes-tracey/ The world’s salt lakes are the canary in the coal mine for the climate crisis, and they are shrinking at a drastic rate.]]> Rosa Lyster Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/this-bitter-earth-salt-lakes-tracey/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/22/waiting-for-day-zero-los-angeles-iranians/ This past Easter Sunday the leaders of an Iranian opposition party in exile gathered for a celebratory picnic with family and friends at Lake Balboa Park in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley. Citrus-and-mint-scented hookah smoke wafted from a lakeside gazebo decked with the prerevolutionary flag of Iran, and a hundred or so people mingled around […]]]> Will Alden Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:01:34 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/22/waiting-for-day-zero-los-angeles-iranians/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/22/martin-filler-on-writing-frank-gehry-and-the-dramatic-world-of-architecture/ In this episode of Private Life, Martin Filler joins Jarrett Earnest for a conversation about architecture criticism, Frank Gehry, and the art that makes us weep.  Click the “Subscribe” link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform. Martin Filler is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books. His first […]]]> Martin Filler, Jarrett Earnest Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:41:10 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/22/martin-filler-on-writing-frank-gehry-and-the-dramatic-world-of-architecture/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/the-right-amount-of-crazy-fintan-otoole/ In Trump’s strategy of feigning madness to get what he wants, there is no longer any border between pretense and actual irrationality.]]> Fintan O’Toole Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/the-right-amount-of-crazy-fintan-otoole/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/19/a-clearing-of-the-ground-hampshire-college/ Small liberal arts colleges face so many challenges today that their precarious survival may be more surprising than their escalating demise. The casualties are staggering, with an estimated eighty-nine colleges closing or merging since 2020 alone and forecasts that a quarter of the nation’s private colleges and universities are at risk in the coming decade. […]]]> Christopher Benfey Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/19/a-clearing-of-the-ground-hampshire-college/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/19/war-games-olympics-empire/ At the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics, held simultaneously at venues in Milan, Cortina, Livigno, and Predazzo, the notion of the games as an occasion for international peace took the form of armonia, or “harmony” in Italian. It was a quality exhibited more convincingly in the ceremony’s fusion of disparate parts than in its relentless […]]]> Jake Nevins Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/19/war-games-olympics-empire/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/18/after-mystics-lauren-kane-medieval-art/ Earlier this spring, Lauren Kane journeyed up to the Cloisters—the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s outpost on the northern tip of Manhattan, which houses European art inside a complex of buildings cobbled together from the ruins of several medieval cloisters brought over from France and Catalonia in the early twentieth century—to visit “Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, […]]]> Lauren Kane, Daniel Drake Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/18/after-mystics-lauren-kane-medieval-art/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/17/finding-gertrud-kauders/ In the last years of his life my father wrote a memoir. Born in 1916 in Munich to Bohemian parents—his father Jewish, his mother not—he had spent his boyhood at a Bavarian boarding school, until the Nazis made it impossible for him to stay on in Germany. At that point he fled to Czechoslovakia, then […]]]> Simon During Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:47:16 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/17/finding-gertrud-kauders/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/16/hardy-men-hardy-boys-passage-press/ In 2022 Jonathan Keeperman, then a lecturer in the English department at the University of California, Irvine, who for years had moonlighted as a right-wing Internet provocateur, founded a boutique publisher called Passage Press. His goal, he told Ross Douthat in a New York Times interview last year, was to build a reactionary cultural apparatus that would […]]]> Daniel Lefferts Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:30:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/16/hardy-men-hardy-boys-passage-press/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/16/she-knows-a-place-mavis-staples/ There’s a recording I hold close, Joan Armatrading’s “Woncha Come on Home.” When the song was released in 1977, it was common for music producers to double-track vocal lines, recording two nearly identical takes and layering them on top of each other to produce a full, uniform sound. The vocals in “Woncha Come on Home,” […]]]> Sophie Abramowitz Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/16/she-knows-a-place-mavis-staples/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/15/everything-but-the-leanne-shapton/ A dispatch from the Art Editor]]> Leanne Shapton Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/15/everything-but-the-leanne-shapton/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/15/from-the-archive-the-banality-of-empathy/ In March 2019 Namwali Serpell wrote for the NYR Online about a choose-your-own-adventure-style episode of the television show Black Mirror, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Hannah Arendt, and Violet Allen’s story “The Venus Effect,” among other subjects, in an expansive essay on about narrative empathy. In this episode of Private Life, “The Banality of Empathy” is read by the writer Lovia Gyarkye. […]]]> Namwali Serpell, Lovia Gyarkye Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:36:56 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/15/from-the-archive-the-banality-of-empathy/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/13/go-out-and-sue-a-polluter/ Shortly before Christmas in 1969 a dense fog rolled in across the bayous of the Texas Gulf Coast. For more than four days it blanketed a vast region, as far west as San Antonio and as far east as Port Arthur. Flights were grounded, cars crashed, and all traffic halted in the Houston Ship Channel, […]]]> Scott W. Stern Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:36:58 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/13/go-out-and-sue-a-polluter/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/11/a-widening-gulf-adam-hanieh/ “It would be a mistake to treat the Gulf as politically homogeneous. The war has clearly shown the weight of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, but it has not eliminated the different calculations of other Gulf states.”]]> Adam Hanieh, Nawal Arjini Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:30:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/11/a-widening-gulf-adam-hanieh/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/11/a-workingmans-surrealist-hc-westermann/ You could say that H. C. Westermann became an artist on the morning of March 19, 1945. While serving as a marine gunner on the USS Enterprise during World War II, the twenty-two-year-old witnessed an enemy aircraft dive-bomb the nearby USS Franklin off the coast of Japan, killing more than seven hundred men—most of them […]]]> Jeremy Lybarger Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/11/a-workingmans-surrealist-hc-westermann/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/10/the-emirates-on-the-tightrope/ On Sunday, March 22, the United Arab Emirates’ foreign minister, Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan, maternal brother of UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan, put on a brave face. The evening prior, President Donald Trump declared that if the Strait of Hormuz was not opened within forty-eight hours, he would order strikes on Iranian […]]]> Colin Powers Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:27:39 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/10/the-emirates-on-the-tightrope/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/09/namwali-serpell-on-toni-morrison-criticism-and-narrative-empathy/ In this episode of Private Life, the writer and New York Review contributor Namwali Serpell joins Jarrett Earnest to discuss her new book, On Morrison, a collection of essays about Toni Morrison and her work.  Click the “Subscribe” link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform. Their conversation covers Morrison’s life as a […]]]> Namwali Serpell, Jarrett Earnest Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:21:30 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/09/namwali-serpell-on-toni-morrison-criticism-and-narrative-empathy/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/04/novels-of-future-aaron-matz/ “Difficile est saturam non scribere: if you’re paying attention to present conditions, it’s difficult not to write satire,” writes Aaron Matz, quoting the Roman poet Juvenal, in a review of Dan Sperrin’s State of Ridicule from our March 26, 2026, issue. Unfortunately, literary political satire has been in a long period of decline—and not just because it has been supplanted […]]]> Aaron Matz, Willa Glickman Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:30:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/04/novels-of-future-aaron-matz/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/reimagining-the-future-of-ireland-otoole-mcbride-toibin/ Two writers from different parts and traditions of the island argue with each other and themselves about the advantages and disadvantages of Irish unification.]]> Colm Tóibín Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/reimagining-the-future-of-ireland-otoole-mcbride-toibin/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/blood-in-the-game-bloodline-fever-beach/ For two novels that address the escalating violence, rampant corruption, and class resentment poisoning our society, Lee Clay Johnson’s Bloodline and Carl Hiaasen’s Fever Beach are also surprisingly funny.]]> Francine Prose Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/blood-in-the-game-bloodline-fever-beach/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/misjudgment-at-nuremberg-james-vanderbilt/ In James Vanderbilt’s film Nuremberg, about the trial of the major Nazi war criminals, the questioning of Russell Crowe’s all too charming Hermann Göring becomes a moment of invented high drama.]]> Alice Kaplan Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/misjudgment-at-nuremberg-james-vanderbilt/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/to-share-is-our-duty-uncollected-letters-of-virginia-woolf/ Two consummate Virginia Woolf scholars have added more than 1,400 letters to the corpus. On show are charm, careful condolence, generosity, candor about her reading and writing, and a belief that “communication is health.”]]> Hermione Lee Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/to-share-is-our-duty-uncollected-letters-of-virginia-woolf/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/friendship-7-lucy-sante/ Museum Visit: Friendship 7; a collage by Lucy Sante]]> Lucy Sante Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/friendship-7-lucy-sante/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/the-painters-shadow-world-morgan-meis/ Morgan Meis’s Three Paintings Trilogy is the most exciting new writing about the visual arts to appear in a generation.]]> Jed Perl Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/the-painters-shadow-world-morgan-meis/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/the-throwaway-planet-waste-wars-clapp/ Three books raise political and moral questions about human consumption—and the value we place on those who clean up the waste.]]> Caroline Fraser Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/the-throwaway-planet-waste-wars-clapp/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/living-through-the-civil-war-george-templeton-strong/ George Templeton Strong’s diaries provide the North’s best record of daily passions and woes during its struggle against the South.]]> Michael Gorra Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/living-through-the-civil-war-george-templeton-strong/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/lots-wife-andrea-cohen/ I always get confused.I think it’s Lot’sturning back that turnedher to salt. A wholepillar of it. I always thinkhe’s an Orpheus of sorts,though Orpheus wasgorgeous and a knockouton his lute. But Lot?There’s not a wholelot we can say in his favor.I have to think his wife had a name other thanLot’s wife, that shemight have […]]]> Andrea Cohen Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/lots-wife-andrea-cohen/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/a-vast-symphony-of-stone-viollet-le-duc/ In his renovation of Notre-Dame, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc projected his own Romantic vision of the Middle Ages onto the Gothic cathedral.]]> David A. Bell Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/a-vast-symphony-of-stone-viollet-le-duc/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/the-aging-class-golden-years-work-retire-repeat/ Retirement, like so much of the American economy, is a broken system that benefits private interests and exploits the most vulnerable people.]]> Trevor Jackson Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/the-aging-class-golden-years-work-retire-repeat/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/world-of-his-fathers-returning-nicholas-lemann/ Nicholas Lemann’s Returning traces his Louisiana family’s gradual distancing across generations from its Jewish faith and his own efforts to reembrace it.]]> Brenda Wineapple Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/world-of-his-fathers-returning-nicholas-lemann/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/psalm-121-timmy-straw/ From the prohibition against representation    that binds the globe in images.From that blue sea from which like whips    my help will cometo mend me nameless to this rock the world    that I may see you,my Lord. Who once misfit the eye    as mere prosperity,the glare that causes objects. Who once    set us in the deepa password, lock and mercenary. Who […]]]> Timmy Straw Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/psalm-121-timmy-straw/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/heavens-elegist-tennyson-boundless-deep-holmes/ Alfred Tennyson's poetry addressed the central anxiety of his day: how to live in a world where scientific discoveries were slowly replacing religious faith.]]> Kathryn Hughes Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/heavens-elegist-tennyson-boundless-deep-holmes/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/a-devotee-of-deception-old-man-by-the-sea-starnone/ In Domenico Starnone’s The Old Man by the Sea, an elderly writer looks back across a life in which he has always sought distance and control rather than passion. ]]> Tim Parks Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/a-devotee-of-deception-old-man-by-the-sea-starnone/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/why-the-west-an-exchange/ To the Editors: In his review of Georgios Varouxakis’s The West [NYR, December 18, 2025], Yuri Slezkine makes assertions that should unsettle anyone concerned about the fate of liberal democracy. Most troubling are these: that historic Russia is a largely passive entity against which “the West” defines itself; that Ukraine—a country fighting for its existence […]]]> John Connelly, Maria Sonevytsky, Yuri Slezkine Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:30:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/why-the-west-an-exchange/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/01/gini-alhadeff-reads-nadja/ In this episode of Private Life, the writer, translator, and editor Gini Alhadeff reads excerpts from Mark Polizzotti’s recent translation, for NYRB Classics, of André Breton’s 1928 surrealist novel, Nadja. Blending autobiography and fiction, this abidingly strange book recounts, analyzes, and remembers Breton’s brief love affair with the eponymous young woman in 1920s Paris. Click the […]]]> André Breton, Gini Alhadeff Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:39:49 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/01/gini-alhadeff-reads-nadja/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/03/31/timid-europe-iran-war/ On Sunday, March 22, three weeks into the US–Israeli war in Iran, Donald Trump received an unlikely pledge of support. The previous Friday he had taken to Truth Social to lambast his fellow NATO members, calling them “COWARDS” for refusing to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has effectively blocked with threats […]]]> Caitlin L. Chandler Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:47:25 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/03/31/timid-europe-iran-war/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/born-in-the-usa-birthright-citizenship-david-cole/ For the Supreme Court to accept the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke birthright citizenship, it would have to repudiate the Constitution, its own precedents, and the long-standing position of all three branches of the US government.]]> David Cole Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/born-in-the-usa-birthright-citizenship-david-cole/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/03/29/tell-me-your-worst-helene-schjerfbeck/ The Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck told her models to stay silent and look away from her while she worked. She would not tolerate conversation or a returned gaze. As a result her paintings show the many ways art can present a person indirectly: in profile, eyes closed, staring off in the distance or looking askance, […]]]> Bridget Alsdorf Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:03:02 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/03/29/tell-me-your-worst-helene-schjerfbeck/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/03/28/indecorous-decorations-medieval-sexuality/ Around the year 1400 a young woman in Central Europe was given a saddle made of bone, likely for her wedding day. As she rode from her parents’ home to that of her new husband, she sat upon carved scenes of lovers embracing and men banging drums or clutching their belts. In France, at about […]]]> Lauren Kane Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/03/28/indecorous-decorations-medieval-sexuality/