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Merve Emre
What’s Your Type?

Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You and Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood play with the novel’s traditional concern with character types.

Kristen Martin
The Parent Trap

The sociologist Kelley Fong argues that we would do better by children and families if we were to widen our understanding of the social causes of adversity rather than relying solely on the blunt force of Child Protective Services.

Dan Nadel
Cartoon Rules

Bill Griffith’s Three Rocks is a portrait of an artist obsessed with the formal mechanics of the comic strip.

FT
Just Enough Blues

George Michael’s career was driven by two imperatives: to be the biggest pop star in the world and to be taken seriously as an artist.

Party After The The

a poem by 
Dean Browne

The basil plant scenting the window ledge.
You could watch it
succumb for months. To a raffle of aphids.
To heat.
You could take cuttings to garnish your
bruschetta with sweet
contingency. You could love how to it
it must seem
risible mooning after trumpet when
all there is is
triangle. Ding. Flattened and blemished
it laments nothing…

NYRSeminars:
W. G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn

Join Daniel Mendelsohn as he leads a seminar on W. G. Sebald’s 1995 novel, which follows the footsteps of a nameless narrator as he takes a long and erratic walking tour of Suffolk—a journey that becomes a vehicle for ruminating on history and literature, the passage of time, and cultural decay.

Four weekly sessions beginning March 6. Purchase your membership here!

Free from the Archives

On Friday Aleksei Navalny, the Russian lawyer and opposition leader who survived an assassination attempt in 2020 only to be imprisoned by President Putin on spurious charges the following year, died suddenly in the Arctic prison where he had been held since December. President Biden and other world leaders are holding Putin responsible.

On December 3, 2020, while Navalny was still recovering in Germany from the attempt on his life, Amy Knight wrote for the NYR Online about his cause and his intention to return to Russia in order “to speak directly to his people…back on Russian soil.”

Amy Knight
Aleksei Navalny, Ready to Run Again in Russia

“The most convincing testimony to Aleksei Navalny’s effectiveness as an opposition politician is the threat he poses to the Kremlin’s political survival and the trouble to which Putin and allies are willing to go in attempting to destroy him.”

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