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- Wrap Your Troubles in DreamsIn 1945, as the spring air of the Japanese countryside poured in through the unfinished roof of their house, twelve-year-old Yoko Ono and her little brother, Keisuke, scions of the fabulously powerful Yasuda family, stared into the blue sky and starved. Their money was worthless, and their rural neighbors had little pity for the city […]
- The Politics of Raw PowerOn Wednesday a group of Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis pinned a man to the ground and, while he was immobilized, blasted pepper spray into his face at point-blank range. On Thursday the House of Representatives, with the necessary support of seven Democrats, passed a government spending bill that appropriated $10 billion to Immigrations and […]
- Is the Constitution ‘Dead, Dead, Dead’?The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.
- Rolling with the Economic TidesIan Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel follows the lifespan of one barge, from bunkhouse to floating prison to barracks and back, as it traces the shadowy outer limits of the maritime economy.
- Teacher’s PetJane DeLynn’s autobiographical novel In Thrall recounts a same-sex affair between a teenager and her closeted English teacher in the early 1960s, a time when exposure could be more traumatic than exploitation.
- Things Fall ApartGabriele Tergit’s Effingers chronicles how one prosperous German Jewish family struggled to answer the question: When is it time to leave?
- The Undefined GothicAt the turn of the twentieth century, a Gothic fever swept Europe as artists searched for meaning in a lost age.
- ChildhoodI did die. Dying was a venetian blind, all parts working together but not in the same direction.Like a succulent, an aloe leaf—break it and it heals.I died like boxes in a storage locker—no hurry to open.Died like a myth—the watermonster leapt out, snatched me from myself. There was a honed instrument—there was a small […]
- Liberalism’s PianistCan Igor Levit restore classical music’s claim to cultural and political authority, or is it irrevocably lost?
- Bangladesh’s Stalled Student RevolutionThe young radicals who ousted the country’s authoritarian prime minister have so far failed to implement the democratic reforms they promised. Will elections in February correct their course?
- Bang the Drumstick SlowlyAbout 26 billion chickens occupy Earth, but apart from the lucky ones in backyards, most are condemned to the hellscape that is industrial farming.
- Wars of ReligionIt is a problem of organization, angelsIn their syndicates look down, elitesHave always looked down on us, she said,But if everyone refuses to dieSimultaneously, a kind of general strikeThen they will have no choiceBut to come to the table, she said, strikingHer fists on the table, which caused our drinksWhich were also candlesTo spill. It […]
- Epic AmbitionsA new life of Gertrude Stein treats her as a philosopher of language to trust, not explain—and gathers force from archival discoveries and intriguing plots of her reception and reputation.
- Trump’s Attack on PhilanthropyUniversities, law firms, and news media have already been targeted by the administration. As the Justice Department pushes to investigate the Open Society Foundations, it seems that philanthropies that support critical voices may be next.
- All That GlittersThe science of gemstones has always been intertwined with their value as luxury items.
- Whose Hemisphere?The US capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro reinforces the Trump administration’s capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.
- Darfur’s Endless WarAs paramilitaries tear through their already devastated province, self-defense fighters in North Darfur have taken up arms to defend their homes.
- Two Odes by Ricardo Reis42/I [1923–1924] Seated securely on the solid pillar Of the verses in which I remain,I have no fear of the endless future influx Of times and oblivion;For the mind, when it steadfastly sees in itself The reflections of the world,Becomes malleable clay, and it is the world That creates art, not the mind.Just as the external instant engraves its […]
- Neigh!A dispatch from the Art Editor
- A More Pliant ChavistaPresident Trump’s decision to support Delcy Rodríguez as Venezuela’s new leader makes clear that oil, not democracy, is his main concern.
- Life StorageAt St. Michael’s, small graves sit in view of Home Depot. The triangular cemetery rests in the middle of a highway interchange, bounded on all three sides by humming roads that cordon its hills off from a sunbaked world of outlet stores and cheap motels. In the children’s section, headstones press up against the fence […]
- Nepal’s Republic of AmnesiaFour months after the revolt that overthrew the government of Nepal, Kathmandu seems calm. The new interim government has officially recognized the protests, led by Gen-Z activists, as the third “people’s movement” in the country’s history. Renovations have started on some of the buildings torched this past September, although the parliament remains a charred shell. […]
- In the Despot ArchivesAfter Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin was ousted from power in 1979, his regime left behind mountains of paperwork generated by the state bureaucracy. Years later, the historian Derek Peterson painstakingly assembled it into an archive. As Helen Epstein writes in our January 15, 2026, issue, “crucial documents were buried under layers of old bicycles, junked […]
- Machado AgonistesMaría Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and recent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, has been calling for a foreign—read: US-led—military intervention in her country for years. Since at least 2019 she has insisted that using outside force to overthrow the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, was the only way to restore democracy to Venezuela. […]
- Dead RingersThe first time I saw a sculpture by Tatiana Trouvé, in an uncommonly dim gallery at a museum in Mougins, in southern France, I assumed that I had found three blankets stacked tidily on a chair, supporting a book. The piece was called The Guardian. It was, I would later learn, one of a series by […]
- The Gray TickIn July 1987 the Hajj ceremony in Mecca turned into a bloodbath. Shia pilgrims, mostly Iranians, staged a protest, chanting against America, Israel, and Saddam Hussein. Saudi security forces confronted them. Violence erupted. Nearly four hundred people were killed. I was seven years old. My favorite uncle happened to be among the pilgrims that year. […]
- Community PoetryIn her poem “The Swan, No. 20 (Hilma af Klint)” from the Review’s October 23, 2025, issue, Victoria Chang delineates the line of beauty (a word that appears five times in the poem) that she discovers while contemplating the eponymous painting. Chang translates af Klint’s combination of abstraction and representation—a shell, a fractured field of […]
- The Power of the SourceThe night Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York, I was at a dinner gathering of fair housing and tenants’ rights advocates in New Jersey. The occasion was celebratory—we were marking fifty years since the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled against exclusionary zoning in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, setting in motion […]
- The Scrolling EyeIn early October Sinn Féin, one of the parties supporting Catherine Connolly’s bid for the presidency of Ireland, posted a clip of her playing ball in the concrete backyard of public housing, and it became clear that she would win. Connolly had made an ill-judged visit to Assad’s Syria in 2018, in the company of […]
- Our MomentsThe situation in which we find ourselves at the beginning of Amit Chaudhuri’s A New World is familiar, from life and in fiction: He had come back in April, the aftermath of the lawsuit and the court proceedings in two countries still fresh, the voices echoing behind him. This is a divorce novel, or rather […]
- Mamdanism Without GuaranteesIn an age when all of planning discourse has been reduced to a choice between YIMBY (“yes in my backyard”) and NIMBY (“not in my backyard”), Zohran Mamdani dodged the binary and offered something different. In his affordable housing plan, he criticized the city’s dependence on neighborhood rezonings, which channel growth toward particular locations, while […]
- A Council DividedEver since the late 1980s, when a Supreme Court ruling and resulting revised city charter essentially remade New York City’s government in the hope of resolving its sheer unconstitutionality and pervasive corruption, the overwhelmingly Democratic fifty-one-person City Council has acted as a foil to two Republicans (Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg), two Democrats (Bill de […]
- ‘Imagination for the Other Fellow’In his victory speech, Zohran Mamdani vowed to put forward “the most ambitious agenda” New York City had seen since the administration of Fiorello La Guardia, whom he’s unhesitatingly named its greatest mayor. Fans and pundits have frequently wrapped Mamdani in La Guardia’s mythic mantle: La Guardia too was a courageous maverick bent on delivering […]
- Trump’s War“It was a brilliant operation, actually.” So claimed Donald Trump early this morning in a phone call with The New York Times about the US military’s overnight invasion and bombing of Venezuela, culminating in the abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, who have been brought to New York to face an indictment […]
- Policies of DenialOn November 14 the Guardian reported, on the basis of internal military documents, that the United States was “planning for the long-term division of Gaza.” Reconstruction of the devastated territory, according to the report, would begin in the Israeli-controlled half of the Strip, east of the “yellow line,” which dozens of Palestinians have been killed […]
- Sanctuary CityCome January, New York City will be led by an immigrant—and, in a series of firsts, by a Muslim Indian American from Uganda. This kind of representation is meaningful in and of itself for many New Yorkers who hail from elsewhere, “especially when immigrant communities are being grabbed off the streets,” as Ana María Archila […]
- Wielding the Ice PickThere is a steeliness to Zohran Mamdani that wasn’t obvious when he first appeared as a candidate for mayor, ablaze with ideas while extending a panoramic embrace to New York’s most invisible communities that inspired a surge of new voters in November. I remember watching a video of him entering a community room bursting with […]
- Until the Next StormClimate policy didn’t feature much in this mayoral election, possibly because much of the exciting legislation necessary to start moving New York toward a carbon-free future has already been passed. The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), signed in 2019, which commits the state to net zero emissions by 2050, is one of the […]
- Democratic ExcellenceZohran Mamdani has introduced several changes to American politics—joining ideological maximalism to policy minimalism, crafting a winning political identity as a Muslim socialist, taking a stand on Palestine, listening to voters. One innovation has not received the attention it deserves: his pledge, on election night, to “leave mediocrity in our past” and make “excellence…the expectation […]
- The Radiance of Tentative HopeIn less suspenseful years a mayoral election in New York City would be a purely local event, but in precarious 2025 it was a national and even international one as well. The United States is still, in all its potentially catastrophic disarray and decline, the most powerful geopolitical entity on earth. Any little fuse might […]
- Leaving KhartoumOn the afternoon of Friday, April 14, 2023, as the last days of Ramadan drew to an end, I went to have iftar with my extended family in Omdurman, across the Nile from Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. It had been a while since I had last seen them there. Born in the US to Sudanese parents, […]
In 1945, as the spring air of the Japanese countryside poured in through the unfinished roof of their house, twelve-year-old Yoko Ono and her little brother, Keisuke, scions of the fabulously powerful Yasuda family, stared into the blue sky and starved. Their money was worthless, and their rural neighbors had little pity for the city […]
On Wednesday a group of Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis pinned a man to the ground and, while he was immobilized, blasted pepper spray into his face at point-blank range. On Thursday the House of Representatives, with the necessary support of seven Democrats, passed a government spending bill that appropriated $10 billion to Immigrations and […]
The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.
Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel follows the lifespan of one barge, from bunkhouse to floating prison to barracks and back, as it traces the shadowy outer limits of the maritime economy.
Jane DeLynn’s autobiographical novel In Thrall recounts a same-sex affair between a teenager and her closeted English teacher in the early 1960s, a time when exposure could be more traumatic than exploitation.
Gabriele Tergit’s Effingers chronicles how one prosperous German Jewish family struggled to answer the question: When is it time to leave?
At the turn of the twentieth century, a Gothic fever swept Europe as artists searched for meaning in a lost age.
I did die. Dying was a venetian blind, all parts working together but not in the same direction.Like a succulent, an aloe leaf—break it and it heals.I died like boxes in a storage locker—no hurry to open.Died like a myth—the watermonster leapt out, snatched me from myself. There was a honed instrument—there was a small […]
Can Igor Levit restore classical music’s claim to cultural and political authority, or is it irrevocably lost?
The young radicals who ousted the country’s authoritarian prime minister have so far failed to implement the democratic reforms they promised. Will elections in February correct their course?
About 26 billion chickens occupy Earth, but apart from the lucky ones in backyards, most are condemned to the hellscape that is industrial farming.
It is a problem of organization, angelsIn their syndicates look down, elitesHave always looked down on us, she said,But if everyone refuses to dieSimultaneously, a kind of general strikeThen they will have no choiceBut to come to the table, she said, strikingHer fists on the table, which caused our drinksWhich were also candlesTo spill. It […]
A new life of Gertrude Stein treats her as a philosopher of language to trust, not explain—and gathers force from archival discoveries and intriguing plots of her reception and reputation.
Universities, law firms, and news media have already been targeted by the administration. As the Justice Department pushes to investigate the Open Society Foundations, it seems that philanthropies that support critical voices may be next.
The science of gemstones has always been intertwined with their value as luxury items.
The US capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro reinforces the Trump administration’s capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.
As paramilitaries tear through their already devastated province, self-defense fighters in North Darfur have taken up arms to defend their homes.
42/I [1923–1924] Seated securely on the solid pillar Of the verses in which I remain,I have no fear of the endless future influx Of times and oblivion;For the mind, when it steadfastly sees in itself The reflections of the world,Becomes malleable clay, and it is the world That creates art, not the mind.Just as the external instant engraves its […]
A dispatch from the Art Editor
President Trump’s decision to support Delcy Rodríguez as Venezuela’s new leader makes clear that oil, not democracy, is his main concern.
At St. Michael’s, small graves sit in view of Home Depot. The triangular cemetery rests in the middle of a highway interchange, bounded on all three sides by humming roads that cordon its hills off from a sunbaked world of outlet stores and cheap motels. In the children’s section, headstones press up against the fence […]
Four months after the revolt that overthrew the government of Nepal, Kathmandu seems calm. The new interim government has officially recognized the protests, led by Gen-Z activists, as the third “people’s movement” in the country’s history. Renovations have started on some of the buildings torched this past September, although the parliament remains a charred shell. […]
After Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin was ousted from power in 1979, his regime left behind mountains of paperwork generated by the state bureaucracy. Years later, the historian Derek Peterson painstakingly assembled it into an archive. As Helen Epstein writes in our January 15, 2026, issue, “crucial documents were buried under layers of old bicycles, junked […]
María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and recent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, has been calling for a foreign—read: US-led—military intervention in her country for years. Since at least 2019 she has insisted that using outside force to overthrow the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, was the only way to restore democracy to Venezuela. […]
The first time I saw a sculpture by Tatiana Trouvé, in an uncommonly dim gallery at a museum in Mougins, in southern France, I assumed that I had found three blankets stacked tidily on a chair, supporting a book. The piece was called The Guardian. It was, I would later learn, one of a series by […]
In July 1987 the Hajj ceremony in Mecca turned into a bloodbath. Shia pilgrims, mostly Iranians, staged a protest, chanting against America, Israel, and Saddam Hussein. Saudi security forces confronted them. Violence erupted. Nearly four hundred people were killed. I was seven years old. My favorite uncle happened to be among the pilgrims that year. […]
In her poem “The Swan, No. 20 (Hilma af Klint)” from the Review’s October 23, 2025, issue, Victoria Chang delineates the line of beauty (a word that appears five times in the poem) that she discovers while contemplating the eponymous painting. Chang translates af Klint’s combination of abstraction and representation—a shell, a fractured field of […]
The night Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York, I was at a dinner gathering of fair housing and tenants’ rights advocates in New Jersey. The occasion was celebratory—we were marking fifty years since the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled against exclusionary zoning in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, setting in motion […]
In early October Sinn Féin, one of the parties supporting Catherine Connolly’s bid for the presidency of Ireland, posted a clip of her playing ball in the concrete backyard of public housing, and it became clear that she would win. Connolly had made an ill-judged visit to Assad’s Syria in 2018, in the company of […]
The situation in which we find ourselves at the beginning of Amit Chaudhuri’s A New World is familiar, from life and in fiction: He had come back in April, the aftermath of the lawsuit and the court proceedings in two countries still fresh, the voices echoing behind him. This is a divorce novel, or rather […]
In an age when all of planning discourse has been reduced to a choice between YIMBY (“yes in my backyard”) and NIMBY (“not in my backyard”), Zohran Mamdani dodged the binary and offered something different. In his affordable housing plan, he criticized the city’s dependence on neighborhood rezonings, which channel growth toward particular locations, while […]
Ever since the late 1980s, when a Supreme Court ruling and resulting revised city charter essentially remade New York City’s government in the hope of resolving its sheer unconstitutionality and pervasive corruption, the overwhelmingly Democratic fifty-one-person City Council has acted as a foil to two Republicans (Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg), two Democrats (Bill de […]
In his victory speech, Zohran Mamdani vowed to put forward “the most ambitious agenda” New York City had seen since the administration of Fiorello La Guardia, whom he’s unhesitatingly named its greatest mayor. Fans and pundits have frequently wrapped Mamdani in La Guardia’s mythic mantle: La Guardia too was a courageous maverick bent on delivering […]
“It was a brilliant operation, actually.” So claimed Donald Trump early this morning in a phone call with The New York Times about the US military’s overnight invasion and bombing of Venezuela, culminating in the abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, who have been brought to New York to face an indictment […]
On November 14 the Guardian reported, on the basis of internal military documents, that the United States was “planning for the long-term division of Gaza.” Reconstruction of the devastated territory, according to the report, would begin in the Israeli-controlled half of the Strip, east of the “yellow line,” which dozens of Palestinians have been killed […]
Come January, New York City will be led by an immigrant—and, in a series of firsts, by a Muslim Indian American from Uganda. This kind of representation is meaningful in and of itself for many New Yorkers who hail from elsewhere, “especially when immigrant communities are being grabbed off the streets,” as Ana María Archila […]
There is a steeliness to Zohran Mamdani that wasn’t obvious when he first appeared as a candidate for mayor, ablaze with ideas while extending a panoramic embrace to New York’s most invisible communities that inspired a surge of new voters in November. I remember watching a video of him entering a community room bursting with […]
Climate policy didn’t feature much in this mayoral election, possibly because much of the exciting legislation necessary to start moving New York toward a carbon-free future has already been passed. The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), signed in 2019, which commits the state to net zero emissions by 2050, is one of the […]
Zohran Mamdani has introduced several changes to American politics—joining ideological maximalism to policy minimalism, crafting a winning political identity as a Muslim socialist, taking a stand on Palestine, listening to voters. One innovation has not received the attention it deserves: his pledge, on election night, to “leave mediocrity in our past” and make “excellence…the expectation […]
In less suspenseful years a mayoral election in New York City would be a purely local event, but in precarious 2025 it was a national and even international one as well. The United States is still, in all its potentially catastrophic disarray and decline, the most powerful geopolitical entity on earth. Any little fuse might […]
On the afternoon of Friday, April 14, 2023, as the last days of Ramadan drew to an end, I went to have iftar with my extended family in Omdurman, across the Nile from Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. It had been a while since I had last seen them there. Born in the US to Sudanese parents, […]
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“NB by J.C.” collects the variegated musings of James Campbell in the Times Literary Supplement.
In “Fires in the Dark,” Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a “love song to psychotherapy.”
Dorothy L. Sayers dealt with emotional and financial instability by writing “Whose Body?,” the first of many to star the detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
“Dom Casmurro,” by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read — and reread — with precise detail and masterly obfuscation.
Brandon Taylor’s novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting.
The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.
Looking for an escapist love story? Here are 2024’s sexiest, swooniest reads.
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“The Outsiders” is the first new musical to open since 2022 to become profitable.
Nearly half a century before “Heated Rivalry” skated its way to screens, a budding literary talent pseudonymously published some sporty smut of his own.
In “Hated by All the Right People,” the journalist Jason Zengerle looks at the conservative pundit’s many transformations.
In his “Island at the Edge of the World,” the British archaeologist Mike Pitts delves into the misconceptions and legends surrounding a complex ancient culture.
In “Until the Last Gun Is Silent,” Matthew F. Delmont shows how the conflict consumed a civil rights leader and tore a soldier apart.
In “Vigil,” an oil tycoon on his deathbed receives a visit from an angel.
An artist knocked off her path by a manipulative professor is at the center of Larissa Pham’s spare and troubling new book, “Discipline.”
Our critic on four excellent new novels.
The pop culture critic discusses his new book about the sport and its place in American culture.
Like the flakes themselves, no two are the same.
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Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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