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• The Long Reach of the Satanic Verses
  The Satanic Verses was published more than thirty years ago, but the attack in August on Salman Rushdie, the novel’s author, is a grim reminder that the scandal surrounding it remains alive. Although Ayatollah Khomeini’s notorious 1989 fatwa, which ordered the murder of Rushdie for blasphemy, has never been rescinded, no special measures seem to […]
• The Struggle Over Verdi
  The Parma Verdi Festival, dedicated to Italy’s greatest opera composer, opened Thursday night with one of his strangest and most disturbing operas, La Forza del Destino (The Force of Destiny). Set across the landscape of a Europe at war, Forza is an opera of frustrated passion and vindictive obsession, with choruses alternately rapt in solemn […]
• “Ever Freer to Speak My Mind”
  “The theocratic movement to advance religiously based governance—the antithesis of genuine religious freedom—has installed as the law of the land the essentially unreasoned position advanced in Dobbs,” writes Laurence H. Tribe in the Review’s September 22 issue. His is a thorough indictment of the illogic, legal inconsistencies, and arrogance of the Supreme Court’s ruling to […]
• Godard’s Women
  It must have been in the spring of 2018, because that was the last time I was in Paris. I had been invited to give a talk; my hotel was near the Church of Saint-Sulpice, which I had never visited before. And in that immense cathedral my heart began to pound, because walking beneath those […]
• On the Downbeat
  “Day one post balloons.”  That is how Joan inscribed her book After Henry, which she gave me the day after the balloons dropped and the Democrats finished their 1992 convention. Those four words, for me, captured Joan and the moment itself: the superficial excitement of the convention, the silly balloons dropping, but also a beginning. The first […]
• A Child Is Being Aborted
  My partner and I tried for a baby before our now ten-month-old daughter was born—a situation utterly different from the accidental conception of my eighteen-year-old son, my first, when I was twenty-three. Their arrivals mark different times in my life, different moments of desire, partnership, hardship, anxiety, maturity. Pregnancies—their termination, loss, completion, or abstention—determine a […]
• The Divining Process
  Welcome to The New York Review of Books’s inaugural art newsletter, which will appear periodically and focus on the art—illustrations, spots, caricatures, photographs, and more—in the magazine. I’m Leanne Shapton, the Review’s first Art Editor. Each newsletter will appear alongside a series of paintings made from wherever I happen to be while reading, commissioning, or […]
• Light Under a Bushel
  In our September 22, 2022, issue, Eric Foner reviews Donald Yacovone’s Teaching White Supremacy, an account of history education in America that examines textbooks published between the early nineteenth century and the 1980s. Over the centuries, Yacovone writes, in the United States racism and pedagogy have gone hand in hand. Both subjects are familiar to […]
• A Theater of State Panic
  A small-town business district glides across the screen in grainy 1960s Technicolor. The shot shows a pawn shop, a drug store, and advertisements for cottage cheese and white potatoes. The town is passing itself off as Anywhere, USA, but something is amiss. The brightly colored façades are fabricated and flimsy. Atop the liquor store, a […]
• Timeless Correspondences
  At the end of The Gift, a memoir of H.D.’s American childhood unpublished in her lifetime, she appends a chapter set in the present, London, 1943. An air raid takes her household by surprise, and she describes what it’s like in her fifth-story flat in Lowndes Square with “terrific shattering reverberations of the great guns.” […]
• Throngs of Unseen People
  When eleven-year-old Willie Lincoln died of typhoid in the White House in February 1862, his parents were devastated. For weeks President Lincoln held solitary grieving sessions every Thursday, the day of his son’s death. Mary Lincoln swung between agonized sobbing and passive despair. She wore mourning clothes for months, wrote on stationery trimmed in black, […]
• Endless Summer
  In September 1963 my family moved from Clarion, Iowa, to Osage, Iowa, eighty-two miles away. I was eleven, the oldest of four children. Both towns were roughly the same size—population three thousand or thereabouts—and their residential streets ended abruptly in cornfields. In Clarion, I knew everyone and everything. My friends were Bill and Greg and […]
• Rome Was His Laboratory
  No one in Rome would let Francesco Bianchini punch a hole through their ceiling. Bianchini wanted to measure the size of the solar system, which required the use of a sixteen-foot-long telescope—hence the hole. When he finally found a suitable place to mount his instrument and take measurements, tracking Venus and Saturn across the night […]
• Passage
  I’d never been further than Ballina, and only in the back of a cart.The train shuffled field after tree after field, as Dada did with cardsand me as a spindle at the heart of it, the last still thing in the world.It was as well, maybe, departure was giddy so I thought the whirlmeant more […]
• Where Will We Live?
  The climate crisis can be understood as an experiment in pace. By burning the remains of hundreds of millions of years of flora and fauna in the course of a few decades, we’re forcing the planet through changes that usually take eons; deep time is suddenly running like one of those films of a flower […]
• Corrections of Taste
  Near the end of Terry Eagleton’s Critical Revolutionaries, there’s a sentence that made me stop for a moment in disbelief. Perhaps it was meant to. F.R. Leavis was by far the most dogmatic of the twentieth-century critics with whom the book is concerned, and Eagleton writes that the Cambridge don held that “literary criticism was […]
• Cosmic Oceans Squeezed into Atoms
  Suppose you are traveling on a municipal bus in the sunbaked South Indian city of Chennai, and you know Tamil. At some point, overwhelmed by the sheer density of color and form that you can see through the window, you raise your eyes to the board just above the driver’s seat, where a couplet is […]
• Understanding Diabetes—and Paying for It
  On April 9 of this year, The New York Times featured an obituary for Arthur D. Riggs, a scientist likely unknown to most readers. Riggs’s career was largely spent at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California, where he discovered how to use recombinant DNA technology—which brings together genetic sequences from multiple […]
• Doomed to Lucidity
  Around ten years ago, the British writer Andrew Miller found himself in something of a crisis. Until then, his career had been a pretty gilded one. His first novel, Ingenious Pain (1997), set in the eighteenth century, won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award—worth €100,000—from a shortlist that included Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, […]
• Poet of the Dispossessed
  Keiron Pim’s absorbing biography of one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and disquieting writers begins with a description of Joseph Roth’s birthplace, a small town called Brody, now in western Ukraine. A footnote observes that “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine occurred as this book was being prepared to go to print…. Descriptions of buildings and […]
• Little Town on the Prairie
  Liang Village sits on the edge of the North China Plain, about 650 miles south of Beijing. The area was settled by migrants who came in waves throughout Chinese history, attracted by the fertile soil in what was traditionally one of the country’s breadbaskets. But its economic promise faded a long time ago. The brickworks […]
• A Powerful, Forgotten Dissent
  Among the thousands of cases the Supreme Court has decided, only a handful of dissenting opinions stand out. There is Justice John Marshall Harlan’s solitary dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 decision upholding the doctrine of “separate but equal.” “All citizens are equal before the law,” Harlan objected. “There is in this country no […]
• The Slow-Motion Coup
  What has Donald Trump taken from our democracy?
• Clinging to Hollywood’s Underbelly
  Stopping to see an old friend en route to California on horseback, the protagonist of Saddle Tramp (1950), a folksy ranch hand played by Joel McCrea, announces that he’s “just passing through.” The same could often be said of the film’s Argentine-born director, Hugo Fregonese, who spent his professional life in a near-constant state of […]
• The Vanishing Point of the Laws of War
  The United Nations has assessed that 276 million people worldwide today are “severely food insecure.” Forty million are in “emergency” conditions, one step short of the UN’s technical definition of “famine.” By early this year the combined effects of the climate crisis, the economic fallout from Covid-19, armed conflict, and the rising costs of fuel […]
• Soft Shapes
  The cover of our Fall Books Issue was hand-drawn and -painted by Jon Klassen, the Canadian writer and illustrator of a Caldecott Award–winning picture book trilogy about hats: I Want My Hat Back, This Is Not My Hat, and We Found a Hat. As a mother, I find his work reliably weird and beautiful, finding […]
• In the Shadow of Invasion
  In August I spent two weeks traveling around Ukraine by train, using my sketchbook to document quotidian existence in the shadow of Russia’s invasion. By the time I arrived the Ukrainian army had largely pushed the war back to the country’s south and east. Lviv, Odesa, and Kyiv had returned to vivid life. Kids tore […]
• Lear’s Lyrical Coasts
  And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,They danced by the light of the moon. The shifting margin of sea and land, often lit by the moon, held a lure for Edward Lear, a tidal ambivalence. In 1836, when he was twenty-four and about to leave England to become a landscape painter, he […]
• The Same Problem on Repeat
  To be an American is to live under a regime of profound inequalities, which result from the same concentrations of wealth that make the country an international power. Health care is one of the points at which those inequalities converge most catastrophically. As the journalist Steven Thrasher writes in his recent book The Viral Underclass, […]
• The Painter in the Paint
  Andrew Kuo, whose painting Stay Up, 2014 shimmers on the cover of our Summer Issue—the first issue after we redesigned the print magazine—is an artist and author who contributes regularly to T: The New York Times Style Magazine and cohosts, with Ben Detrick, a podcast about basketball and culture called Cookies Hoops. In 2021 Kuo […]
• My Husband the War Criminal
  Pension Schmidt, better known as “Salon Kitty,” was one of the most glamorous bordellos in Nazi Germany. Among its illustrious clientele were foreign diplomats, government ministers, generals, and regime functionaries. The interior of the grand bourgeois building—located at 11 Giesebrechtstraße in Berlin, close to Kurfürstendamm—was elegant, with expensive rugs, crystal chandeliers, plush armchairs, and thick […]
• The Party’s Over
  In 1991 Margaret Thatcher accepted an invitation to speak in the city that had just ceased to be Leningrad and was now St. Petersburg again. As a demonstration of the ruthlessness that has made it so good at holding on to power, her own Conservative Party had deposed her the previous year as prime minister […]
• Rococo Risks
  Ange Mlinko’s Venice opens with a prefatory poem recalling a trip from Beirut to Cyprus, the birthplace of Aphrodite. It is Boxing Day 2009. The poet and her children look forward to the new year and the new decade, and, pushing their luck, bid a “good riddance to the past.” How could this decade be […]
• Our Toxic Nuclear Present
  Back when movies were still available on VHS, a friend gave me Akira Kurosawa’s I Live in Fear (1955). (The Japanese title, Ikimono no kiroku, translates literally as “Record of a Living Being.”) Like most of Kurosawa’s films set in contemporary Japan, it was eclipsed by his masterpieces set in the Heian or Sengoku periods, […]
• Toy Apple Beauty
  First there is the outsider.Then there is a second outsider—lessOutside than the first, but still.Then there is the third outsider,Who is now, actually, inside something,Albeit something slightly less definable.Eventually we all move togetherInto some kind of sanctuary,An estuary,Until someone decides to leave again.And the thorn birds are preening their violet plumageIn the topmost branches of […]
• Their Glorious Façades
  Gavin Lambert’s The Goodby People is set during the inexhaustibly fascinating few years preceding its original publication in 1971, in the city of Los Angeles, where the earth trembles and the hedonistic sun shines no matter what. Though the fantasies it churned out for some decades had branded the psyche of the world, the rigid […]
• Disaster Was Her Element
  Miranda Seymour's I Used to Live Here Once is a richly detailed and warmly sympathetic look at Jean Rhys's turbulent, disjointed life.
• Little Emperor of Solstice
  Doing this and that, further shredded by ribbonsI’m your inner child from beforethe procedure of ambition I ran the neighborhood on training wheelsHeavy rubberized pastel flowed from my bike tassels Blues and greens that mean something different nowthat my ear has aged I live inside you where music fillsthe empty space of my headI mean […]
• It’s Not Easy Being Green
  What will we be eating in the future? Will it be wholesome, locally grown organic produce or some Soylent Green–like nightmare food? The only certainty, George Monbiot argues in Regenesis, is that we cannot continue to eat what we eat today. Climate disruption will see to that. And even if climate impacts are less severe […]
• Where Does the Buck Stop?
  Midway through Hernan Diaz’s wondrous new novel, Trust, a wealthy financier sits at a desk, looking out of a high-rise window at a welder, suspended on a beam, who seems to be returning his gaze: Each man appeared to be hypnotized by the other. But when the welder adjusted his cap and his coat, always […]
• Outdoing Reality
  The Lockheed Martin Hellfire 114 R9X, nicknamed the “ninja bomb” or the “flying Ginsu,” is an air-to-surface, drone-launched missile, approximately five feet long and seven inches in diameter, weighing roughly one hundred pounds, with a top speed of 995 miles per hour. Most members of the Hellfire family are designed to carry different types of […]
• Xanadu’s Architect
  1. Half a century ago, second-wave feminism swelled into a social tsunami that wrought profound changes in American life. Among them was a concerted effort to correct the underrepresentation of women in occupations that had systematically excluded them, including architecture. As the history of women in the building art began to be charted for the […]
• Questioning Desire
  Second-wave feminism was a movement with many fronts: antidiscrimination and legal equality; subsidized child care; health care and reproductive rights; the prevention and prosecution of domestic and sexual violence; the redefinition of gender roles. Radical feminists came out of the student left of the 1960s, thought of themselves as (nonviolent) revolutionaries rather than reformers, and, […]
• Promise and Disillusion in South Africa
  On a scorching summer morning ten years ago, I attended a rally in a mining settlement north of Johannesburg headlined by Julius Malema, the pudgy, firebrand former leader of the African National Congress’s Youth League. At the time, Malema was engaged in a battle for control of the ANC with South African president Jacob Zuma, […]
• How to Cast a Metal Lizard
  In 1627–1628 Charles I of England bought an enormous art collection from Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua. The Gonzaga dynasty had hosted Andrea Mantegna and Giulio Romano at their court, collected antique statues, and bought new works by Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, and Correggio. The Gonzagas’ brilliant but imprudent expenditures had landed them in financial trouble. Charles’s […]
• Immune to Despair
  When I visited Ukraine in July 2016, only one way remained across the Siverskyi Donets River to the separatist Luhansk People’s Republic: a bridge half destroyed by shelling, passable only on foot. From Stanytsia Luhanska, a Don Cossack settlement, elderly people and mothers with young children traversed the bridge, hauling carts of tomatoes and cucumbers […]
• Family Lore
  For fifty years the historian and novelist Marina Warner has been teaching us how to see the histories that lie behind myths and symbols, and especially how to interpret the meanings secreted in images projected by, and onto, women. Her first book, published in 1972, was a biography of “a wicked woman in power,” the […]
• Brick, Mortar, and Rot
  Stability is to the Spanish what freedom is to Americans. (This is a stereotype, but life abroad inures you to stereotypes you may have rejected as a fair-minded observer from afar.) Where American parents might advise their children to go their own way, to do whatever will make them happy, their Spanish counterparts are more […]
• These Disunited States
  The Ukraine war and global economic troubles momentarily overshadowed domestic discord in the United States earlier this year, but it didn’t go away. The groundless insistence by former president Donald Trump and his supporters that the 2020 election was stolen, Republican efforts to limit voting rights and to install state officials willing to disregard adverse […]
• The Complicity of the Textbooks
  Like most works of history, W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America concludes with a bibliography listing primary and other sources consulted by the author. Most of the groupings are unexceptional—for example, monographs, government reports, and biographies. But Du Bois’s first and largest category comes as a shock to the modern reader: it consists of […]
• ‘Hell, Yes, We Are Subversive’
  In 1969 a UCLA student who was also an undercover FBI agent revealed in the campus newspaper that the school’s philosophy department had recently hired a member of the Communist Party. A week later, the San Francisco Examiner reported that that person was a twenty-five-year-old professor named Angela Davis. The University of California Board of […]
• Was the Third Way the Right Way?
  To the Editors: Robert Kuttner portrays much of recent Democratic Party governance, especially the Clinton administration, as “neoliberal,” an epithet for policies that he and the author under review, Gary Gerstle, consider a short step from laissez-faire in service to oligarchy [“Free Markets, Besieged Citizens,” NYR, July 21]. By so doing, the reviewer promotes a […]
• Latvia & World War II
  To the Editors: Gordon F. Sander covers the dramatic changes underway in memorializing World War II in Latvia [“Memory Wars in Latvia,” NYR, July 21], highlighting important shifts in popular opinion along with some ambiguities and insecurities that will likely remain even once Soviet monuments are removed. However, I believe that Sander omitted two important […]
• Cover-ups & ‘Uncoverings’
  To the Editors: Jennifer Wilson’s fascinating article on Pushkin’s Blackness [“The First Russian,” NYR, August 18] leaves a gap in treatments of the poet’s African heritage between 1981 and 2006. In 1987 the height of glasnost coincided with the 150th anniversary of the poet’s death. Nationalist cultural voices, growing in confidence and popularity, used this […]
• A Brutal Place Playing at Paradise
  Although I have a great fondness for my home state, California was a mistake. At a glance, it is all beauty, abundance, and wealth, but cock your head just so and there they are: the successive waves of blood-soaked dispossession, the carnage of a polity founded and renewed by fortune-seekers who never seem to realize […]
• Deconstructing Dobbs
  The chaos and cruelty unleashed in late June by the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which wiped out a half-century of constitutional protections for the reproductive rights—and thus the equal citizenship—of women in America, have been well documented. The ruling quickly led to a patchwork quilt of abortion bans differing […]

New York Times Books©

• Book Review: ‘Stay True: A Memoir,” by Hua Hsu
  In “Stay True,” Hua Hsu, a staff writer for The New Yorker, recounts his relationship with an Asian American college friend, whose search for identity quietly shaped the author’s own.
• Hilary Mantel Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve
  Hilary Mantel brought great precision to her writing, and asked the same of us in our reading.
• Review: ‘The Furrows,’ by Namwali Serpell
  In Namwali Serpell’s novel “The Furrows,” a childhood tragedy brings a lifetime of strange encounters.
• What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago
  The trove of items deposited in Key West, now part of a new archive at Penn State, includes four unpublished short stories, drafts of manuscripts and boxes of personal effects.
• Review: ‘Teaching White Supremacy,’ by Donald Yacovone
  A new history by Donald Yacovone examines the racist ideas that endured for generations in educational materials.
• Belle, Sebastian and Me
  Following the world’s twee-est band down the Pacific Coast after a divorce and the death of a parent.
• New Historical Fiction
  Special powers, avian obsession and visions of the future fuel these transporting and entertaining tales.
• Review: ‘Mr. Wilder and Me,’ by Jonathan Coe
  Jonathan Coe’s novel “Mr. Wilder and Me” explores the late career of a legendary Hollywood director.
• Review: ‘I Fear My Pain Interests You,’ by Stephanie LaCava
  In Stephanie LaCava’s novel “I Fear My Pain Interests You,” a young actress manages the strains of family and failed romance.
• In ‘The Furrows,’ Namwali Serpell Confronts a Sibling’s Disappearance
  Confronting sudden loss in her own life, Namwali Serpell has written “The Furrows,” a disquieting portrait of the human mind, warped by grief.
• Book Review: ‘Shrines of Gaiety,’ by Kate Atkinson
  In this fizzy picaresque, the novelist conjures a London coming alive after World War I, where a nightclub empire offers refuge — and hides secrets.
• The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone
  Joe Hagan discusses “Sticky Fingers,” his 2017 biography of Wenner, and a panel of Times critics talks about their 2019 list of outstanding memoirs.
• Irwin Glusker, 98, Dies; Gave American Heritage Its Distinctive Look
  A veteran art director, he was best known for his work at the lavish magazine of U.S. history that became a fixture in dens across the country.
• New Crime Fiction
  In Alaina Urquhart’s serial-killer thriller “The Butcher and the Wren,” a Louisiana forensic pathologist matches wits with a murderer.
• Hilary Mantel Books, Reviews and Interviews: A Reading Guide
  Mantel’s body of work spanned memoir, short stories, essays — and, of course, historical fiction. Here’s a guide to her writing.
• Harvey Awards to Induct New Hall of Fame Members
  Neil Gaiman, Marjorie Henderson Buell, Gilbert Shelton and Roy Thomas will be honored for their comic book work at New York Comic Con on Oct. 7.
• Hilary Mantel, Prize-Winning Author Known for ‘Wolf Hall,’ Dies at 70
  The two-time Booker Prize-winning author was known for “Wolf Hall” and two other novels based on the life of Thomas Cromwell.
• 7 Audiobooks to Listen to Now
  Nick Cave, religious cults and a dead mother-in-law who may or may not have come back to life: immersive narratives to download this month.
• Review: “The Wind Rises” (Alma, Book 1) by Timothée de Fombelle
  A West African girl thrust from her family’s private Eden confronts awful truths on the high seas in Timothée de Fombelle’s “The Wind Rises.”
• Review: “The Door of No Return” by Kwame Alexander
  In his new novel-in-verse, “The Door of No Return,” the Newbery Medal-winning author works hard to show that white people weren’t the only ones perpetuating an unjust system.
• 12 New Books We Recommend This Week
  Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
• Deanna Raybourn Puts Power in the Hands of Older Women
  In “Killers of a Certain Age,” the longtime historical novelist dips a toe in contemporary waters — and celebrates an oft-ignored age group.
• Andrew Sean Greer By the Book Interview
  “I couldn’t read more than a page of ‘Last of the Mohicans,’” says the novelist, whose new book is “Less Is Lost.” “Not only is it wildly offensive, it’s unintelligible gibberish. There. I said it. Come after me.”
• Book Review: ‘Our Missing Hearts,’ by Celeste Ng
  “Our Missing Hearts” explores a fictional world where Chinese Americans are spurned and books are recycled into toilet paper.
• Saul Kripke, Philosopher Who Found Truths in Semantics, Dies at 81
  A leading 20th-century thinker, he published a landmark work at 32. Known for lecturing extemporaneously without notes, he dazzled colleagues with the breadth of his ruminations.
• Springfield, Missouri, Is Their Muse
  Working in their home city, the photographer Julie Blackmon and her daughter, Stella, a filmmaker, find some mystery in everyday life.
• John Train, Paris Review Co-Founder and Cold War Operative, Dies at 94
  His career, ranging from literature to finance to war, and from France to Afghanistan, seemed to cover every interest and issue of his exalted social class.
• Book Review: ‘The Story of Russia’ by Orlando Figes
  In a new book, the historian Orlando Figes argues that the war on Ukraine is only the latest instance of a nation twisting the past to justify its future.
• Book Review: ‘Self-Portrait With Ghost,’ by Meng Jin; ‘Tomorrow in Shanghai,’ by May-lee Chai; ‘A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On,’ by Dung Kai-cheung
  Stories set in China, the U.S. and Hong Kong are deadpan, dysfunctional, sentimental — and weird.
• Book Review: ‘By Hands Now Known,” by Margaret A. Burnham
  “By Hands Now Known,” by Margaret A. Burnham, examines the chronic, quotidian violence faced by Black citizens in the American South — and the law’s failure to address it.
• In ‘Joyce’s Women,’ 2 Great Irish Writers Square Up
  Edna O’Brien’s latest stage work, at the Abbey Theater in Dublin, imagines the inner lives of important female figures around James Joyce.
• Newly Published, From Neuron Forests to Cryptocurrency
  A selection of recently published books.
• John W. O’Malley, Leading Catholic Historian, Dies at 95
  He wrote groundbreaking histories of the Second Vatican Council, the late medieval church and the Jesuits, of which he was a member.
• Jasmine Guillory Finds Her Happily-Ever-After as a Romance Writer
  After leaving a law career to focus on fiction full-time, Jasmine Guillory is publishing her eighth novel, “Drunk on Love.”
• A Finnish Scholar Wants to Change How We See American History
  In “Indigenous Continent,” Pekka Hamalainen aims to upend the nation’s grand narrative, putting Native people and Native power at the center.
• ‘Four Saints in Three Acts’ Review: An Opera Becomes a One-Man Show
  The actor David Greenspan is a tour-de-force, taking on all the roles of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson’s large-cast opera from 1934, sans music.
• Spotify Makes a Bet on Audiobooks
  The streaming service that transformed the music industry is expanding into audiobooks, and will offer more than 300,000 titles on a pay-per-book model.
• Book Review: ‘Lady Justice,’ by Dahlia Lithwick
  In “Lady Justice,” Dahlia Lithwick celebrates the female lawyers, judges and others who stood up to the administration.
• The Enduring Wisdom of ‘Goodnight Moon’
  It’s the first book many babies receive as a gift, and one of the few that parents will keep when their child is grown. Why does this 75-year-old story have such staying power?
• Book Review: ‘You’ve Been Played,’ by Adrian Hon
  In “You’ve Been Played,” a self-identified gamer warns against the dangers of imposing artificial incentives on all aspects of our lives.

The Chronicle of Higher Education©

• When Truth and Social Justice Collide, Choose Truth
  Why I’m resigning from my professional society.By Jonathan Haidt Why I’m resigning from my professional society.
• The Dumbing Down of the Purpose of Higher Ed
  The university’s core values are under attack. We must speak up.By Patricia McGuire The university’s core values are under attack. We must speak up.
• What the Faltering OPM Market Means for Colleges
  Even institutions not involved with the companies should take heed.By Phil Hill Even institutions not involved with the companies should take heed.
• Why Faculty of Color Are Leaving Academe
  Too many find themselves disenfranchised, exhausted, and isolated.By Joshua Doležal Too many find themselves disenfranchised, exhausted, and isolated.
• You’ve Burned Out. Now What?
  Academe’s competitive productivity is a dead end.By Rebecca Pope-Ruark Academe’s competitive productivity is a dead end.
• The Charade of Political Neutrality
  Colleges are in the middle of the culture wars whether they like it or not.By Holden Thorp Colleges are in the middle of the culture wars whether they like it or not.
• Debt Forgiveness Is a Political Minefield
  Biden's plan will help millions of people who deserve relief. But it will be messy.By Kevin Carey Biden's plan will help millions of people who deserve relief. But it will be messy.
• Will Artificial Intelligence Kill College Writing?
  Online programs can churn out decent papers on the cheap. What now?By Jeff Schatten Online programs can churn out decent papers on the cheap. What now?
• What Will It Take to Make College More Affordable?
  Political solutions face fierce headwinds, but there's still hope for progress.By Rebecca S. Natow Political solutions face fierce headwinds, but there's still hope for progress.