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Zadie Smith
‘Trump Gaza Number One’

The AI-generated vision of postwar Gaza that Trump posted on social media was only thirty-three seconds long, but it spoke volumes about how his administration sees the world.

Nicholas Lemann
Henrietta Szold & the Return to Zion

Henrietta Szold devoted her life to the conviction that diaspora Jews should have a strong emotional connection to the Holy Land and to building a Jewish society in Palestine. But how useful is her “cultural” Zionism for Jewish Americans today?

Mark Ford
Poetry After Flossenbürg

A new biography of Anthony Hecht shows that his life was as various and unexpected as his poems, which evolved from modernist pastiche to extended experiments with the dramatic monologue.

Trevor Jackson
Scot-free

We are living through an inflection moment in the distribution of impunity.

The Review at the Oscars

Tonight will be the ninety-seventh Academy Awards ceremony. This year, the Review’s writers essayed four of the Oscar-nominated movies: Anora, which is up for six statues; Nosferatu, with four nominations; and The Apprentice and Gladiator II, both with one nod.

Anna Shechtman and D.A. Miller
Anora’s Honor

The title character in Sean Baker’s new film is sharp-tongued and invulnerable—until a marriage plot catches up with her.

Gabriel Winslow-Yost
A Country for Old Monsters

In Nosferatu and Wolf Man, the forces of evil are not so much confronted as fatalistically, inevitably succumbed to.

A.S. Hamrah
You’re Brutal, I’m Brutal

With its sympathetic portraits of Donald Trump and Roy Cohn, The Apprentice is, in the end, yet another bland Hollywood biopic.

Katie Kadue
‘Let Them Eat War’

Ridley Scott’s sequel to Gladiator draws on a long history of nostalgia for an idealized republican Rome.

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