Brent Cebul
Bidenomics: Farewell to an Idea?
Joe Biden pursued as transparently assertive an industrial policy as any since the mobilization for World War II. Why did it fail to win over voters?
Andrew Katzenstein
‘Haunted, Haunted’
The characters in Mike Leigh’s new feature, anchored by a magnificent performance by Marianne Jean-Baptiste, hardly seem to be living in his usual noisy democracy.
Study Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady with Merve Emre
NYRSeminars presents the next installment of Merve Emre’s series “What Will She Do?,” four weekly webinar sessions discussing Henry James’s classic novel, starting March 3.
Anne Enright
Alice Munro’s Retreat
In the years after she chose to stay with her husband despite learning that he had abused her daughter Andrea, Alice Munro’s stories came to reveal more than she might have known.
David Cole
What Could Stop Him?
Our Constitution includes multiple guardrails against Trump-like presidents. But those checks and balances only work when citizens resist.
Free from the Archives
The first part of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha was published 420 years ago today. In the Review’s June 11, 1998, issue, Simon Leys assessed the merits of Cervantes’s masterpiece (“one of the greatest works of fiction of any age, in any language [but] also—quite literally—a potboiler concocted by a hopeless old hack, at the very end of his tether”) and surveyed the work of “four modern critics of Cervantes [who] rank among the best literary minds of our time”: Vladimir Nabokov, Henry de Montherlant, Miguel de Unamuno, and Mark Van Doren.
Simon Leys
The Imitation of Our Lord Don Quixote
“The notion of ‘literary classic’ has a solemn ring about it. But Don Quixote, which is the classic par excellence, was written for a flatly practical purpose: to amuse the largest possible number of readers, in order to make a lot of money for the author (who needed it badly).”
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