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Our November 19 issue is now online, with Verlyn Klinkenborg on the rivers that you’re used to, Fintan O’Toole on Andy Burnham’s communion, Ruth Bernard Yeazell on illustrious illustration, Mark O’Connell on JD Vance’s overweening ambition, Melissa Anderson on Tally Brown’s underground, Jake Bernstein on the super PAC blitz, Erin Maglaque on a medieval Me Too moment, Vivian Gornick on the history of affordable housing, Ben Rhodes on Biden’s dereliction of Gaza, a poem by Jenny Grassl, and much more.

Ben Rhodes
Biden’s Choice

As Israel’s assault on Gaza grew worse and worse, Joe Biden and his advisers acted as though they had no option but to offer their unconditional support. Why couldn’t they see the destruction they were enabling?

Vivian Gornick
Hull House on the Hudson

Mary K. Simkhovitch, the founder of Greenwich House, believed in the radical idea that housing should be made as livable for the working class as it was for the middle class.

Erin Maglaque
Me Too in the Middle Ages

A forensic study of a rape survivor from 1473 Dijon reveals a legal process surprisingly accepting of imperfect victims and contradictory testimony.

Verlyn Klinkenborg
The Flood of Life

Our desire to control a river’s course always conflicts with a river’s determination to shape its own.

This Week on the New York Review Podcasts

Fintan O’Toole and Jean Strouse talk about the roots of our modern American institutions in the Gilded Age and the work of the robber barons.

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The actress and comedian Ruby McCollister reads Elaine Blair’s 2012 essay about the HBO series Girls and its depictions of sex.

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