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Patricia J. Williams
Expanding the Vocabulary
With great discipline and sanity, Kamala Harris has been navigating a minefield of Trumpian insults and attempts to debase her.
On the Election
Ten New York Review contributors consider the United States’ sixtieth presidential election, on subjects ranging from the psyches of undecided voters to America’s foreign policy failures, the country’s ongoing housing crisis, and the candidates’ silence on climate change and Palestine.
Matthew Desmond
How to Solve the Housing Crisis
What the next president can do.
Elaine Blair
Stop Infantilizing Moderates!
Democrats need a stronger message for the uncommitted voter.
Nathaniel Rich
Silent Spring
Why aren’t the candidates talking about climate change?
Sari Bashi
North Gaza: Between Death and Displacement
As it escalates its attacks on north Gaza, the Israeli army has ordered the entire civilian population to evacuate—and cut off food aid to all who remain.
Mark Danner
Getting Out the Fear Vote
As Trump improvises at his rallies, his grim imaginings of a mongrelized, crime-ridden country are transformed into unfalsifiable myths.
Jed Perl
Ralph Ellison’s Alchemical Camera
The novelist’s photographs reveal an aestheticizing impulse that is difficult to reconcile with the relentless seriousness of his observations and critiques of American society.
Sonnet in Which Most of the Rhymes Fail
Together in a lake I see a thousand
About a thousand in a burning lake…
Election 2024
The New York Review of Books is pleased to announce a series of virtual events on the most pressing aspects of the 2024 presidential election. In each conversation, held on Zoom, our contributors discuss the critical issues of our time. You may register for the final two conversations in this series at the links below.
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