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Fintan O’Toole
Flicking the War Switch

Even when it comes to the president’s most serious power, Trump has established that he will do whatever produces the images he likes.

Amro Hamada
Gaza: The War on Dialysis

As a young physician in the Strip, I study patients with end-stage kidney disease. Cut off from the care they need, many of them are silently dying.

Christopher R. Browning
Surely Not?

“Surely in a democracy that has survived for 240 years, no foreign embedded Manchurian candidate would dare risk exposing himself by dropping such a cluster bomb of obviously and predictably damaging actions and policies all at once.”

Andrew Delbanco
The Connoisseur of Desire

Throughout his writing life, Fitzgerald’s animating theme was the sweet torment of “nothing further.”

Free from the Archives

“When most people think of birds in New York City,” wrote Robert O. Paxton in The New York Review’s June 23, 2016, issue, “they think of pigeons, or perhaps starlings or house sparrows quarreling at a street corner.” But, he enthused, Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island are in fact home to a surprisingly robust avian population, subject to the same churn of domestic and foreign, big and small, flamboyant and humble that the city’s residents live by.

Robert O. Paxton
Look Up and See!

“Bird life is constantly changing in New York City. We may assume that the marshy island that the first European settlers encountered in the early seventeenth century thronged with ducks, geese, herons, and other conspicuous water birds that were soon consumed or chased off as the city arose. But change did not stop when the city became fully built. New York City’s bird life has been altered in interesting ways in just the past fifty years.”

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