Mark O’Connell
Single-Player Politics

Luigi Mangione’s alleged killing of a health care CEO was conceived—and received—as a move within a game of symbols.

Colm Tóibín
‘Her Own Woman’

In Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Mary McCarthy created herself on the page—and then reimagined the self she had established.

Martin Filler
Build, Britannia!

As one of England’s foremost authorities on architecture, Gavin Stamp distinguished himself by focusing on how buildings are lived in, rather than how they look.

Barzakh

a poem by 
Fady Joudah

You scrub from my throat the darkness that
sticks to songs
traveling at the speed of light.
The songs you play

are all I hear. With our morning
coffee and kitchen hours.
Gone are my industrial sorrows.
I am back…

Clare Bucknell
Studies for His Mind

Sir John Soane’s museum represents the rare survival of a collection that was more like an early modern cabinet of curiosities—flamboyant, overflowing, full of anomalies—than a nineteenth-century institution.

Poorna Swami
Of Light

Payal Kapadia’s films are defined by the slippage between women’s longing and the dogged grip of reality—not least of India’s unyielding social divisions.

Free from the Archives

Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day, the eponymous feast day for the fifth-century Irish bishop. In March 2018, Sadhbh Walshe wrote for the NYR Online about the Irish American community, which, like so many immigrant communities, had been shrinking as the US gave out fewer work visas and green cards and tightened its borders.

Sadhbh Walshe
Why Irish America Is Not Evergreen

At this St. Patrick’s Day, one could be fooled into thinking that the Irish-American community is as robust as ever. But US immigration rules have largely closed the door to new entries, leading inexorably to a “graying” of Irish America.

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