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Our December 3 issue is now online, with Fintan O’Toole on the midterms miracle, David Shulman on NAZA, Darryl Pinckney on Arthur Schomburg’s library, Trevor Jackson on the negatives of nudging, Kristen Roupenian on Jane Schoenbrun’s fantasias, Michael Gorra on Sebastian Barry’s nightmares, Piper French on the legal rot in capital cases, Clare Carlisle on Spinoza’s religion, Mark Danner on the legacy of January 6, an interview with a Nigerian bandit by Helen Epstein and Aminu Abubakar, poems by Jenny Susana Plotts-Pineda and Aaron Fagan, and much more.

David Shulman
Collateral Damage

In the documentary film NAZA, Israeli soldiers speak candidly about their remorse at participating in the war in Gaza.

Darryl Pinckney
Arthur Schomburg’s Legacy

The Schomburg Center in Harlem is marking its centennial by celebrating the man whose library grew into one of the world’s great collections of black history and literature.

Mark Danner
The Tightrope Walker

How did Trump manage to turn a failed coup d’état into a story of his own martyrdom?

Kristen Roupenian
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Change

In the films and fiction of Jane Schoenbrun, the boundary between reality and fantasy is porous, alluring, and must be carefully patrolled.

This Week on the New York Review Podcasts

Fintan O’Toole and Ben Lerner talk about the screen-mediated nature of contemporary reality and the resonance of the human voice.

Listen to Endgame

The writer and psychologist Hannah Baer reads Janet Malcolm’s 1984 essay about Freud, transference, and the analytic role.

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