https://www.nybooks.com en-US Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:09:09 -0500 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/07/now-what-midterms-joseph-oneill/ Since 2019 Joseph O’Neill has been writing essays for the Review exhorting the Democratic Party to play offense in the face of what was beginning to seem like an aversion to winning. So in November 2024, in the bewildering days after Donald Trump’s reelection, I wrote to O’Neill in search of a diagnosis of the […]]]> Joseph O’Neill, Daniel Drake Sat, 07 Nov 2026 10:45:00 -0500 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/07/now-what-midterms-joseph-oneill/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/06/the-blue-wave-i/ David Cole • Sue Halpern • Mark O’Connell • Quinn Slobodian The People’s Referendum David Cole Early in President Donald Trump’s second term, I spoke at a local Washington, D.C., bookstore on civil liberties and the rule of law. DOGE was taking a wrecking ball to federal agencies, Trump had pardoned everyone involved in the […]]]> David Cole, Sue Halpern, Mark O’Connell, Quinn Slobodian Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:30:00 -0500 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/06/the-blue-wave-i/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/05/the-next-generation-democrats-midterm-victory/ The American left has won a historic election by successfully linking the affordability crisis to Republican corruption, and the whole Democratic Party must now learn from their example.]]> Fintan O’Toole Thu, 05 Nov 2026 07:30:00 -0500 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/05/the-next-generation-democrats-midterm-victory/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/04/janet-malcolm-psychoanalysis-and-biography/ Season 2, Episode 7 of Private Life]]> Michael Greenberg, Jarrett Earnest Wed, 04 Nov 2026 21:50:41 -0500 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/04/janet-malcolm-psychoanalysis-and-biography/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/03/trump-hitler-democracys-trip-wires-christopher-browning/ The fourth episode of Endgame with Fintan O’Toole welcomes the Holocaust historian Christopher Browning, whose most recent essay for the Review, “Surely Not?,” considers how an actual “Manchurian candidate” in the White House would never dare to be as radical and widely destructive as Donald Trump has in fact been. Acknowledging the risks and limitations […]]]> Christopher R. Browning, Fintan O’Toole Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:47:54 -0500 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/03/trump-hitler-democracys-trip-wires-christopher-browning/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/03/oysters-high-and-low/ Chincoteagues, Willapoints, Blue Points, Olympias, Portugaises, and Whitestaples. Oysters sizzled in butter, simmered in cream, boiled in their own juices, baked with breadcrumbs, broiled over rock salt, roasted whole, thrown on grills, chopped into soups, mashed into bisques, fried with eggs, stuffed into turkeys, and served raw on the half shell over beds of shaved […]]]> Anne Fadiman Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:00:00 -0500 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/03/oysters-high-and-low/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/02/are-there-no-limits-to-religious-freedom/ Does a Catholic school have a constitutional right to demand state funds for its pre-K program while refusing to admit four-year-olds whose parents are gay or transgender, when the state requires all recipients of such funding not to exclude children on that basis? You might think the answer would obviously be no. And for most […]]]> David Cole Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:58:22 -0500 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/02/are-there-no-limits-to-religious-freedom/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/01/serbias-graduation-day/ I was wrong. Until October 25, when Serbia’s students won an extraordinary victory in an early general election, I thought they had little chance of bringing down Aleksandar Vučić, their country’s authoritarian leader. For the last two years I had followed as the students created a leaderless movement and selected candidates for an electoral list […]]]> Tim Judah Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:21:35 -0500 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/01/serbias-graduation-day/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/01/one-nation-under-the-prosperity-gospel/ As the grandson of a Pentecostal preacher, I can quote each of the thirty-five verses of Exodus 32, in which the recently liberated Hebrew peoples, fed up waiting for Moses to descend from Mount Sinai with divine orders, ask his brother, Aaron, to make them new gods. After beckoning them all to give up their […]]]> Caleb Gayle Sun, 01 Nov 2026 10:41:32 -0500 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/11/01/one-nation-under-the-prosperity-gospel/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/30/here-be-monsters/ I’d been noticing monsters everywhere. It was 2025 and President Donald Trump had been calling immigrants “monsters.” His opponents hurled the term right back at him. Monsters appeared at the movies, from Sinners to Frankenstein, and on the radio, from Lady Gaga’s “The Beast” to the chart-topping songs from KPop Demon Hunters. My three-year-old daughter […]]]> Shannon Heffernan Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:43:39 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/30/here-be-monsters/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/29/a-doubt-that-takes-easily-thelyson-orelien/ This fall a literary scandal has erupted in France around a debut novel with a dramatic title—C’était ça ou mourir (“It Was Either That or Die”)—by the Haitian-Québécois author Thélyson Orélien. Orélien’s account of a Haitian migrant’s odyssey across South and North America made it onto the best-seller list and secured nominations for all the […]]]> Ursula Lindsey Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:20:46 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/29/a-doubt-that-takes-easily-thelyson-orelien/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/bidens-choice-crossing-the-red-line-ahmed/ As Israel’s assault on Gaza grew worse and worse, Joe Biden and his advisers acted as though they had no option but to offer their unconditional support. Why couldn’t they see the destruction they were enabling?]]> Ben Rhodes Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/bidens-choice-crossing-the-red-line-ahmed/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/the-many-views-of-yvonne-jacquette/ Her frequent ascents in airplanes and helicopters, and to the tops of skyscrapers, granted the painter an unusual and rich perspective.]]> Max Norman Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/the-many-views-of-yvonne-jacquette/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/olana-interrupted-ellen-harvey/ The sublime landscapes that inspired Frederic Edwin Church are refracted through climate change in Winter in the Summer House, an installation by the British American artist Ellen Harvey.]]> Jé Wilson Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/olana-interrupted-ellen-harvey/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/multiplying-selves-how-it-works-out-myriam-lacroix/ In How It Works Out, a couple reappears in alternate realities—as celebrities, parents, cannibals, pets and insects—in search of the best of possible worlds.]]> Nathan Whitlock Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/multiplying-selves-how-it-works-out-myriam-lacroix/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/one-battle-after-another-red-brigades/ Two new histories of the Red Brigades explain how terrorism took hold in the wealthiest parts of Italy in the 1970s.]]> Alexander Stille Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/one-battle-after-another-red-brigades/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/hull-house-on-the-hudson-a-slumless-america-mary-simkhovitch/ Mary K. Simkhovitch, the founder of Greenwich House, believed in the radical idea that housing should be made as livable for the working class as it was for the middle class.]]> Vivian Gornick Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/hull-house-on-the-hudson-a-slumless-america-mary-simkhovitch/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/me-too-in-the-middle-ages-justice-for-jehanne/ A forensic study of a rape survivor from 1473 Dijon reveals a legal process surprisingly accepting of imperfect victims and contradictory testimony.]]> Erin Maglaque Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/me-too-in-the-middle-ages-justice-for-jehanne/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/big-money-small-races-super-pacs-in-the-city/ Since Citizens United, super PACs have poured billions of dollars into elections. A new book argues that outside money has its biggest impact in local races, where voters know the least.]]> Jake Bernstein Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/big-money-small-races-super-pacs-in-the-city/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/urban-legend-tally-brown-new-york/ Tally Brown, New York reintroduces an “underground star” to the city whose stages, clubs, and bathhouses have been largely forgotten.]]> Melissa Anderson Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/urban-legend-tally-brown-new-york/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/evolution-of-a-cynic-communion-jd-vance/ JD Vance’s new memoir attempts to sidestep the vice-president’s ambitions with a shallow recounting of his conversion to Catholicism.]]> Mark O’Connell Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/evolution-of-a-cynic-communion-jd-vance/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/reality-has-proved-treacherous/ A new novel recounts Penelope Fitzgerald’s strange sojourn in Mexico in the early 1950s, when her matter-of-fact despair was just coming into view.]]> Andrew Katzenstein Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/reality-has-proved-treacherous/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/deer-woman-in-the-dining-room-jenny-grassl/                     antlers bud blood-pink     twelve points rise with woman pain                     always the escaped                     smell of iron and shame             I stain serve sore at table in apron whites              pour wine                     fork meat diners         finger silver knives around this heartbeat                     centerpiece                     of one’s own rack thorned and tender the curious read my roses there                     a dozen              tines hardened […]]]> Jenny Grassl Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/deer-woman-in-the-dining-room-jenny-grassl/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/the-flood-of-life-in-praise-of-floods-scott/ Our desire to control a river’s course always conflicts with a river’s determination to shape its own.]]> Verlyn Klinkenborg Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/the-flood-of-life-in-praise-of-floods-scott/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/picture-this-reading-pictures-history-of-illustration/ Throughout the history of print, illustrators have helped visualize writer’s stories, and at times became storytellers themselves.]]> Ruth Bernard Yeazell Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/picture-this-reading-pictures-history-of-illustration/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/28/from-the-archive-the-loves-of-lena-dunham/ Season 2, Episode 6 of Private Life]]> Elaine Blair, Ruby McCollister Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:55:11 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/28/from-the-archive-the-loves-of-lena-dunham/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/28/nose-in-a-book-leanne-shapton/ A dispatch from the Art Editor]]> Leanne Shapton Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:44:07 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/28/nose-in-a-book-leanne-shapton/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/28/very-bernie-memes-midterms/ In the fall of 2015 I attended a workshop at our children’s elementary school that warned of the dangers of Snapchat, the social media platform popular, in those days, with tweens and teens. Adults feared that “snaps,” or disappearing posts, would be an opportunity for peer pressure, bullying, and harassment. But a seventy-four-year-old presidential candidate […]]]> Dan Chiasson Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:53:50 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/28/very-bernie-memes-midterms/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/27/americas-second-gilded-age-jean-strouse/ Season 1, Episode 3 of Endgame with Fintan O’Toole]]> Jean Strouse, Fintan O’Toole Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:31:20 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/27/americas-second-gilded-age-jean-strouse/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/27/trumps-blob-foreign-policy/ In mid-March Sebastian Gorka, the White House’s senior director for counterterrorism, took the stage at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. The think tank has served as the inner sanctum of the foreign policy establishment for more than a century: the place where a bipartisan collection of diplomats and strategists planned much of […]]]> Jonathan Guyer Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/27/trumps-blob-foreign-policy/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/26/a-collective-reminiscing-theresa-hak-kyung-cha/ Over the course of the 1970s and early 1980s, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha created a small body of art and writing celebrated in Asian American culture for its embrace of difficulty. Her best-known project, the experimental text Dictee (1982), contains an unpredictable mix of forms—catechism, letter, biography, schoolbook—and images ranging from anatomy charts and Paleolithic […]]]> Spencer Lee-Lenfield Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:45:40 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/26/a-collective-reminiscing-theresa-hak-kyung-cha/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/24/ripped-off-gavin-francis/ Among the bodybuilders Gavin Francis discusses in his essay from the October 22 issue of the Review, the most surprising is surely Leopold Bloom, the hero of Ulysses, who keeps in a drawer (along with his stash of pornographic postcards) a chart measuring his progress with “Sandow-Whiteley’s pulley exerciser,” a real device invented by the man […]]]> Gavin Francis, Chandler Fritz Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:30:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/24/ripped-off-gavin-francis/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/back-to-the-future-andy-burnham-fintan-otoole/ Can Andy Burhnam’s vision of economic recovery in the hinterlands keep the UK together?]]> Fintan O’Toole Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:45:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/19/back-to-the-future-andy-burnham-fintan-otoole/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/23/the-renters-take-providence-morales/ On September 9 the incumbent mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, Brett Smiley, lost his reelection bid to a twenty-seven-year-old democratic socialist named David Morales. It was the first time an incumbent mayor failed to win his party’s primary in the city’s history, and the latest in a wave of progressive victories over establishment Democrats that […]]]> Nina Sparling Fri, 23 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/23/the-renters-take-providence-morales/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/22/natives-of-the-country-lebanon-jewish-community/ On March 29, 1985, Elie Hallak, a fifty-eight-year-old physician and the vice president of Lebanon’s Jewish Communal Council (Conseil communal israélite libanais), was abducted from his home in West Beirut. His kidnappers belonged to a shadowy militant Shiite network, associated with the milieu from which Hezbollah was then emerging, which called itself the Organization of […]]]> Joelle M. Abi-Rached Thu, 22 Oct 2026 07:30:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/22/natives-of-the-country-lebanon-jewish-community/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/21/elaine-blair-on-lena-dunham-sex-and-television/ Season 2, Episode 5 of Private Life]]> Elaine Blair, Jarrett Earnest Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:46:03 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/21/elaine-blair-on-lena-dunham-sex-and-television/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/20/bernie-sanders-utopia-lab/ Season 1, Episode 2 of Endgame with Fintan O’Toole]]> Dan Chiasson, Fintan O’Toole Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:28:49 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/20/bernie-sanders-utopia-lab/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/17/switching-on-lola-seaton/ In our October 22 issue, Lola Seaton reviews Jonathan Buckley’s latest novel, One Boat. “Buckley’s best fiction,” she writes, “is refreshingly free of self-regard: lovingly crafted but out of devotion to his characters rather than to exhibit his technical gifts.” This commitment to the lives of the people in his stories makes his books “alive […]]]> Lola Seaton, Lauren Kane Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:30:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/17/switching-on-lola-seaton/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/out-from-underground-weathermen/ Fifty years after the last Weather Underground bomb exploded, former members and their children reassess the costs of the group’s violent struggle.]]> Adam Hochschild Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/out-from-underground-weathermen/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/the-sheer-size-of-it-all-edward-burtynsky/ Edward Burtynsky’s photographs chronicle the gigantic scale of the scarred landscapes created by twentieth-century extractive industries.]]> Bill McKibben Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/the-sheer-size-of-it-all-edward-burtynsky/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/poem-david-plante/ No, no, I don’t believe in my poems, Not really, but I defer to the poet in me Who belies belief with a fact that Requires no belief, to write a poem In which fire is the poetic Element, fire burning in a wood At night, the leaves falling in flames From trees, and he […]]]> David Plante Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/poem-david-plante/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/work-poem-claire-devoogd/ I’m too broke to make the work Or I don’t care enough about the work To be as broke as I should let myself be To have the time to make the work I work too hard to make the work Or my indolence is too great to take that pleasure In the work that […]]]> Claire DeVoogd Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/work-poem-claire-devoogd/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/march-13-2020-shane-mccrae/ Because the islands bright white          solid stone Reach down through shifting mud beneath the creek Except what might be seen          by radar meek Orisons sounding the meek’s due          but none Near for use          things lost in their pocks are gone Never to be regained          I lost a week Ago an action          figure’s golden beak- Shaped […]]]> Shane McCrae Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/march-13-2020-shane-mccrae/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/the-plot-to-delete-democracy-nerd-reich-duran/ In The Nerd Reich Gil Durán shows how Silicon Valley billionaires have pushed a fringe ideology—what is popularly called techno-fascism but is closer in aspiration to straight-up totalitarianism—into the affairs of state.]]> Sue Halpern Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/the-plot-to-delete-democracy-nerd-reich-duran/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/making-light-of-a-dark-past-la-bola-negra/ La Bola Negra sidesteps the vicious politics of the Spanish Civil War to tell a story about gay sexual freedom.]]> Colm Tóibín Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/making-light-of-a-dark-past-la-bola-negra/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/mapping-mississippi-white-bennie-thompson/ Bennie Thompson’s trailblazing career came after the success of the Voting Rights Act and could end with its fall.]]> Jeffrey Toobin Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/mapping-mississippi-white-bennie-thompson/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/vermeers-vanishing-act-johannes-vermeer/ Why is it that so many smart, inquisitive writers, smitten by the elusiveness of Vermeer’s pictures, should work so hard to wrestle that elusiveness into submission?]]> Susan Tallman Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/vermeers-vanishing-act-johannes-vermeer/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/yemen-the-endless-siege-the-yemen-model-stark/ The “Yemen Model” of American foreign policy has proved a catastrophic failure, leaving brutal proxies better armed and ordinary Yemenis less safe.]]> Nicolas Niarchos Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/yemen-the-endless-siege-the-yemen-model-stark/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/unfinished-business-big-kiss-bye-bye-claire-louise-bennett/ Claire-Louise Bennett’s novels have found a new language to evoke the often circular, abstracted nature of human consciousness.]]> Meghan O’Gieblyn Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/unfinished-business-big-kiss-bye-bye-claire-louise-bennett/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/rebel-rebel-the-invention-of-george-sand-sampson/ George Sand’s scandalous life, including a decade-long affair with Chopin, has obscured the influence of her many novels.]]> Kathryn Hughes Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/rebel-rebel-the-invention-of-george-sand-sampson/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/a-city-all-his-own-baldwin-lee/ In his view camera pictures of New York in the late 1970s, Baldwin Lee made the photographic tradition of the city as empty stage set his own.]]> Joel Smith Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/a-city-all-his-own-baldwin-lee/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/turning-around-the-easel-emily-mae-smith/ The painter Emily Mae Smith hands over her brush to a character borrowed from pop culture—a gesture with symbolic depth.]]> Will Heinrich Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/turning-around-the-easel-emily-mae-smith/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/indefensible-delights-what-we-did-before-our-moth-days-wallace-shawn/ Wallace Shawn’s plays expose the ways in which civilized society is maintained by a violence that is everywhere denied.]]> Adam Thirlwell Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/indefensible-delights-what-we-did-before-our-moth-days-wallace-shawn/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/privatized-stress-working-title-i-want-to-change-leslie/ Saul Leslie’s A Working Title I Want to Change, a satire about the British supermarket chain Tesco, joins a spate of recent novels about people trying to survive the gig economy.]]> Daisy Hildyard Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/privatized-stress-working-title-i-want-to-change-leslie/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/whither-american-socialism-eugene-v-debs/ Since the time of Eugene V. Debs, socialists have struggled to persuade Americans that they could create a more just society.]]> Michael Kazin Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/whither-american-socialism-eugene-v-debs/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/talk-to-it-chatbots-artificial-intimacy-inventing-eliza/ This is the chatbots’ original sin: they are programmed to deceive us.]]> James Gleick Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/talk-to-it-chatbots-artificial-intimacy-inventing-eliza/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/burning-bright-for-now-tigers-between-empires/ The Amur tiger and the jaguar are among the most elusive big cats in the world. Biologists have spent years tracking them down to save them.]]> Colin Thubron Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/burning-bright-for-now-tigers-between-empires/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/14/the-return-of-child-labor/ For years I have been haunted by a grainy video I saw in 2023, when I was interviewing poultry processing workers in Green Forest, Arkansas. In those months I spoke often with the organizer Magaly Licolli, who directs Venceremos, a grassroots organization dedicated to protecting the rights of poultry workers. One day we were sitting […]]]> Alice Driver Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/14/the-return-of-child-labor/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/14/rachel-kushner-reads-from-love-and-death-in-the-american-novel/ Season 2, Episode 4 of Private Life]]> Leslie A. Fiedler, Rachel Kushner Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/14/rachel-kushner-reads-from-love-and-death-in-the-american-novel/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/13/thomas-jefferson-with-annette-gordon-reed/ Season 1, Episode 1 of Endgame]]> Annette Gordon-Reed, Fintan O’Toole Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:13:38 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/13/thomas-jefferson-with-annette-gordon-reed/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/the-dream-of-ai-primacy/ The US drive to win the AI race against China now feeds a fantasy of permanent American dominance in global affairs.]]> Julian Gewirtz Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/the-dream-of-ai-primacy/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/12/introducing-endgame/ Our newest podcast, hosted by Fintan O’Toole]]> Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/12/introducing-endgame/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/11/our-1989-house-of-hopes/ On October 7, 1989, East Germany celebrated its fortieth anniversary with a military parade down Karl-Marx-Allee—an old-fashioned display of state power as protests against Communist rule spread across the country. Opponents of the regime were galled by the phalanxes of goose-stepping soldiers and columns of tanks. That same day, representatives of East Berlin’s theaters gathered […]]]> Ian Johnson Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/11/our-1989-house-of-hopes/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/10/between-earth-and-sky-dovzhenko/ Oleksandr Dovzhenko was a connoisseur of clouds. In many of his shots, the big sky of Ukraine’s fields and steppe swallows the frame. When tiny human forms emerge upward into the heavens, they come as a surprise. As they grow they become monumental, often viewed from below. This is a fairly standard technique in Soviet […]]]> Sophie Pinkham Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/10/between-earth-and-sky-dovzhenko/ https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/10/the-composer-matthew-aucoin/ In the Review’s October 22 issue, Matthew Aucoin surveys Philip Glass’s six-decade musical career, occasioned by the premiere of his new symphony, Lincoln, at Tanglewood this past summer. “Any artist who invents a distinctive, instantly recognizable mood is sure to leave a mark on the history of their art form,” Aucoin writes. “And Glass did […]]]> Matthew Aucoin, Daniel Drake Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:30:00 -0400 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/10/10/the-composer-matthew-aucoin/