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- Iran’s New WinterThe US-Israeli war against Iran, far from encouraging a popular uprising, has strengthened the regime’s grip and set back the cause of Iranian freedom indefinitely.
- The Second ‘Redemption’The Voting Rights Act is dead. The law, very likely the most consequential civil rights statute Congress has ever passed, died on April 29, 2026. It was not a natural death. Congress did not repeal it, having concluded, for example, that it was no longer needed. On the contrary, Congress has reauthorized the statute four […]
- After El-FasherIt is hardly surprising that people dance during war. Sometimes these are dances of victory. This past October, after eighteen months of siege, the city of El-Fasher in North Darfur fell to the Janjaweed—the nickname of the government-aligned Arab militias who razed Darfur twenty years ago, now widely used for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces […]
- Mystery BrainLast year the right-wing Passage Publishing, whose mission—“to push forward new ideas and ways of thinking that can break us out of our cultural and political cul-de-sac and open up new possibilities for art and publishing”—has led primarily to the production of texts by Internet intellectuals like Curtis Yarvin and the pseudonymous Raw Egg Nationalist, […]
- His Moo Was RefinedOn a rainy Sunday in New York City in October 1935, Munro Leaf, an editor at the book publisher Frederick A. Stokes Company, picked up a legal pad and dashed off a story for his friend, the illustrator Robert Lawson. Spun out in forty minutes across six handwritten pages, the draft centered on a young […]
- My Classroom LifeThe English department I hoped to join had two tenure-track jobs going that year, and one of them looked straightforward enough. They needed a medievalist, someone to do Chaucer and Beowulf; though later I learned the position had long been a revolving door, ever since a negative tenure decision had ended up in the courts. […]
- Quoting the WorldThere may be no unifying style in Eugène Atget’s photographs—only an uncanny realism that still arrests viewers a century after his death.
- Ever NewAs a child, when I learned about capital-H History, I pictured it as a kind of basalt cliff: unmovable, unshakeable, a monument I could look up at and wonder how it formed. (I had been reading too many fantasy novels at the time.) But as I grew older I learned more and more about what hadn’t been […]
- Maya Lin Reads ‘Ghosts in the House’In the October 21, 1999, issue of The New York Review of Books, Martin Filler wrote “Ghosts in the House,” about Frank Gehry’s life and work at the turn of the century, including the architect’s own house in Santa Monica, his celebrated Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. In this episode of […]
- Why This War? A Conversation on IranNew York Review contributors Pankaj Mishra, Ben Rhodes, and Suzy Hansen come together for a wide-ranging conversation on what the war in Iran means for the future of US politics and America’s place in the world. This conversation originally aired on April 22, 2026.
- Vengeance Is TheirsAs 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, […]
- We GoofedYale 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’: […]
- Manet and Morisot: Game OnAn important exhibition showcases a painterly repartee that altered the trajectory of the two artists’ work and, by extension, modern art itself.
- This Bitter EarthThe world’s salt lakes are the canary in the coal mine for the climate crisis, and they are shrinking at a drastic rate.
- London’s Brutal UndergroundIn Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling, an ordinary boy’s deadly obsession with the ultrarich reveals deeper corruption at the heart of modern London.
- How Should a Pixel Be?Every low-resolution frame of Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf, shot on a mobile phone nearly twenty-years-old, enacts a drama of form.
- The Rise and Fall of David AdjayeThree 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.
- The Masked AvengersThe Guerrilla Girls used indisputable data and a dry, polished style to show that the art world, contrary to its self-conception, was deeply retrograde.
- Art for Our Age of ChaosThe 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.
- PentimentiIt 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 […]
- Ladder to the Moonafter 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 […]
- Visions of DepravityOn Ceija Stojka at the Drawing Center
- Inflatable LifeOn Paul Chan at Greene Naftali
- Seeing by Hand“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.
- Charlatans & BoresThe profile of the pedant has changed surprisingly across time periods and cultures, but what’s constant is that nobody wants to be called one.
- Drawn to the VoidJohn Wright of Derby introduced chiaroscuro to British audiences, using everything from blazing bladders to ivory planets to illuminate his dazzled subjects.
- ‘The Music of What Happens’Seamus Heaney’s complete poems, following on editions of his letters, prose, and translations, confirm the extent of his achievement.
- A Vital UnconsciousWifredo Lam’s paintings spring from a unique synthesis of European modernism and Afro-Cuban consciousness.
- Waiting for Day ZeroThis 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 […]
- Martin Filler on Writing, Frank Gehry, and the Dramatic World of ArchitectureIn 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 […]
- ‘The Right Amount of Crazy’In Trump’s strategy of feigning madness to get what he wants, there is no longer any border between pretense and actual irrationality.
- A Clearing of the GroundSmall 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. […]
- War GamesAt 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 […]
- After the MysticsEarlier 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, […]
- Finding Gertrud KaudersIn 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 […]
- The Hardy MenIn 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 […]
- She Knows a PlaceThere’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,” […]
- Everything but the…A dispatch from the Art Editor
- 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. […]
- ‘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, […]
- A Widening Gulf“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.”
- A Workingman’s SurrealistYou 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 […]
- The Emirates on the TightropeOn 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 […]
- Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison, Criticism, and Narrative EmpathyIn 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 […]
The US-Israeli war against Iran, far from encouraging a popular uprising, has strengthened the regime’s grip and set back the cause of Iranian freedom indefinitely.
The Voting Rights Act is dead. The law, very likely the most consequential civil rights statute Congress has ever passed, died on April 29, 2026. It was not a natural death. Congress did not repeal it, having concluded, for example, that it was no longer needed. On the contrary, Congress has reauthorized the statute four […]
It is hardly surprising that people dance during war. Sometimes these are dances of victory. This past October, after eighteen months of siege, the city of El-Fasher in North Darfur fell to the Janjaweed—the nickname of the government-aligned Arab militias who razed Darfur twenty years ago, now widely used for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces […]
Last year the right-wing Passage Publishing, whose mission—“to push forward new ideas and ways of thinking that can break us out of our cultural and political cul-de-sac and open up new possibilities for art and publishing”—has led primarily to the production of texts by Internet intellectuals like Curtis Yarvin and the pseudonymous Raw Egg Nationalist, […]
On a rainy Sunday in New York City in October 1935, Munro Leaf, an editor at the book publisher Frederick A. Stokes Company, picked up a legal pad and dashed off a story for his friend, the illustrator Robert Lawson. Spun out in forty minutes across six handwritten pages, the draft centered on a young […]
The English department I hoped to join had two tenure-track jobs going that year, and one of them looked straightforward enough. They needed a medievalist, someone to do Chaucer and Beowulf; though later I learned the position had long been a revolving door, ever since a negative tenure decision had ended up in the courts. […]
There may be no unifying style in Eugène Atget’s photographs—only an uncanny realism that still arrests viewers a century after his death.
As a child, when I learned about capital-H History, I pictured it as a kind of basalt cliff: unmovable, unshakeable, a monument I could look up at and wonder how it formed. (I had been reading too many fantasy novels at the time.) But as I grew older I learned more and more about what hadn’t been […]
In the October 21, 1999, issue of The New York Review of Books, Martin Filler wrote “Ghosts in the House,” about Frank Gehry’s life and work at the turn of the century, including the architect’s own house in Santa Monica, his celebrated Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. In this episode of […]
New York Review contributors Pankaj Mishra, Ben Rhodes, and Suzy Hansen come together for a wide-ranging conversation on what the war in Iran means for the future of US politics and America’s place in the world. This conversation originally aired on April 22, 2026.
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, […]
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’: […]
An important exhibition showcases a painterly repartee that altered the trajectory of the two artists’ work and, by extension, modern art itself.
The world’s salt lakes are the canary in the coal mine for the climate crisis, and they are shrinking at a drastic rate.
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.
Every low-resolution frame of Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf, shot on a mobile phone nearly twenty-years-old, enacts a drama of form.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
On Ceija Stojka at the Drawing Center
On Paul Chan at Greene Naftali
“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.
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.
John Wright of Derby introduced chiaroscuro to British audiences, using everything from blazing bladders to ivory planets to illuminate his dazzled subjects.
Seamus Heaney’s complete poems, following on editions of his letters, prose, and translations, confirm the extent of his achievement.
Wifredo Lam’s paintings spring from a unique synthesis of European modernism and Afro-Cuban consciousness.
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 […]
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 […]
In Trump’s strategy of feigning madness to get what he wants, there is no longer any border between pretense and actual irrationality.
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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,” […]
A dispatch from the Art Editor
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. […]
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, […]
“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.”
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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