Jake Nevins
Imperial Era

The National Football League’s embrace of gambling, Taylor Swift, Nickelodeon subscribers, data analysts, beer enthusiasts, international sports markets, and ever more corporate sponsors helped the Super Bowl fit right in to Las Vegas.

Dennis Zhou
Filming and Forgetting Taipei

Edward Yang’s films approach Taiwan’s transition from authoritarianism to democracy through everyday stories of love, work, and family.

Matthew Aucoin
Alone in Paradise

George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s opera Picture a day like this illuminates not just the loss of a child but also music’s power to create imagined spaces so alluring they become an escape from reality.

Jessie Kindig
The Mississippi and the Mekong

The photographer An-My Lê uses the tools of the imperial eye to assemble an anti-imperial aesthetic.

Josephine Quinn
The Thrill of Late Antiquity

The historian Peter Brown’s memoir recounts an academic career that has taken him from Oxford to Iran to California, in a nostalgic portrait of twentieth-century academic life that can still offer a primer to young scholars.

J. Hoberman
‘Kish Mir in Tuchus!’

Before his violent early death at twenty-five, the Jewish Belgian artist Stéphane Mandelbaum assembled a body of confrontational drawings.

It’s Easy to Lose Faith

a poem by
Miron Białoszewski

A horse and cart went past.
I see. I believe in them.

They grow dark.

The horse and cart went past.
But the horse had a horse…

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!

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