Sponsored by Summer Classics at St. John’s College Darryl Pinckney Zimbabwe’s Wounds of Empire Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novels and essays are marked by her struggle against gender hierarchies and the legacies of colonialism. Ingrid D. Rowland An Exceptional Witness The Holocaust survivor Stella Levi recalls growing up in the Jewish […]
Mao’s wife Jiang Qing helped lead the Cultural Revolution with a Nietzschean philosophy of art. Through revolutionary operas and ballets, she sought a heroic consciousness to could transform society. Whether it comes in the form of a musical composition, a ballet, or a violent revolution, a great work […]
Caitlin Johnstone 5 hr ago Okay so let’s try this: people keep asking me how they can get their hands on some of the Assange paintings I’ve been doing, but if we’re going to do that I’d like to find a way to make it work with the […]
Sponsored by Harvard University Press Our April 6 issue—the Spring Books Issue—is online now, with James Fenton on the English garden, Frances Wilson on Kafka’s diaries, Christopher de Bellaigue on Erdoğan’s disastrous misrule, Martin Filler on Adolf Loos’s minimalism, Christine Smallwood on Bret Easton Ellis’s worst fear, Anahid Nersessian on […]
Dr. Kerry Bolton: An Estimate of the Russo-Ukraine Situation Kerry Bolton discusses the situation in Ukraine and its relationship with Russia, as well as the involvement of globalist forces in the conflict, with an emphasis on the importance of Ukraine to the global system and the conflict between […]
“The classical beauty of the writing, in Tess Lewis’s exquisite translation, gives a sense of the author’s sympathies. . . . [Jünger’s] short, prismatic book is beautiful.” —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal ON THE MARBLE CLIFFS Ernst Jünger Translated from the German by Tess Lewis Introduction by […]
A dispatch from our Art Editor on the art and illustrations in the Review’s March 23 and April 6 issues. Our seventh art newsletter is brought to you from Santa Monica, where the clothing designer Rachel Comey and I have come with the writer Maile Meloy to take a […]
In the Review’s April 6 issue, Ed Park writes about the cartoonist Daniel Clowes, creator of the comic book Eightball (1989–2004), the first eighteen issues of which have just been collected in one volume by the publisher Fantagraphics. “Varying in tone and ambition,” writes Park, Eightball “fixates on verbal zing and graphic […]
Music makes us happy. Millions of people can agree on that. But heavy metal? A genre that is often described as deafening and aggressive, how is can that make people happy? Are the headbanging, beer-drinking and blackclad metal fans even happier than other people? Surely, that can’t be.But […]
By Tamlin Magee1st November 2022 Ralph Bakshi’s bawdy and outrageous 1972 film sparked controversy when it was released 50 years ago – changing animation forever, writes Tamlin Magee. A A blazer-clad student called Fritz attends drug-fuelled orgies, steals guns from corrupt cops, sets his college on fire, finds […]
Sponsored by Reaktion Books Francisco Cantú An American Story Kelly Lytle Hernández’s latest book chronicles the tumultuous period leading up to the Mexican Revolution, casting the border as ground zero for continental change. Liza Batkin Men Explain Abortion Drugs to the FDA In a Texas lawsuit, Christian medical […]
Theara Coleman ‘Offensive’ books that have been rewritten Joel Mathis Can Biden save Medicare? Devika Rao New carbon capture technology can turn carbon into baking soda Advertisement from Wisebread Best Rewards Card of 2023 With $200 Bonus Brendan Morrow Chaim Topol, Fiddler on the Roof star, dies at […]
— Ray Rahman, senior editor, Vulture Sometimes it seems that everyone, from Hollywood insiders to viewers at home, has a reason to be mad at the Oscars. But one group has been particularly riled up for years: animators. Two decades ago, the Academy launched a category for Best […]
Sponsored by MUBI “When we first stepped onto the Red Carpet, I felt a little like Captain Cook must have felt walking ashore in the Society Islands just before he was bludgeoned to death.” This was Larry McMurtry’s description of arriving at the 2006 Academy Awards—where he and his […]
In Meme Wars, so-called “disinformation” experts call for the suppression of more ideas and speakers to protect democracy. Brian Doherty | From the April 2023 issue (Bloomsbury Publishing) In the Trump era, prankster reactionaries went online aiming to perplex and unnerve the olds and normies. In their book […]
— Katherine Brooks, deputy editor, Vulture We’re less than a week out from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ annual celebration of movie magic, and there’s one important department that will go unrecognized at the 2023 Oscars: the stunt professionals. While superior production design, visual effects, […]
Sponsored by Platform Books Sarah Schulman Red Lights, Blue Lines Three recent books examine the discrimination and hypocrisy at the heart of policing “vice.” Geoffrey Wheatcroft Bloody Panico The British Conservative Party was once one of the great popular political movements of Europe. What happened? Anjum Hasan Endless Trances […]
Biology is back, big time–but it wasn’t men who tried to kill it Janice Fiamengo 21 hr ago For at least a few hours, it looked as if the 1960s soul classic “(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman,” memorably performed by Aretha Franklin, was imperiled by […]
Sponsored by Platform Books In John J. Lennon’s latest essay for the Review, he reads Sarah Weinman’s book Scoundrel, an account of the saga of the writer and convicted murderer Edgar Smith, who had once been championed by William F. Buckley. “As a journalist who covers criminal justice […]
The 41 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now Wired From ‘Physical: 100’ to ‘Wednesday’, these are our picks for the best Netflix streaming titles to binge this week. READ How AI Could Transform Email Reece Rogers Artificial intelligence may streamline a form of business communication that’s already super […]
March 01, 2023 Roger L. Simon Roger L. Simon is an award-winning novelist, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, co-founder of PJMedia, and now, editor-at-large for The Epoch Times. His… Hypocrisy Unlimited: Hollywood’s Secret Counterfeit Vaccine Network SHARE* READ MORE Stu Cvrk Stu Cvrk retired as a captain […]
Don’t miss out on more stories you may enjoy. Who Should You Believe When Chatbots Go Wild? Steven Levy Microsoft and others ask us to ignore their glitchy bots’ pleas for personhood. But we need better explanations—and guardrails. READ Should I Learn Coding as a Second Language? Meghan […]
Rachel Nolan An Amazonian Exodus The discovery of a Bible led a Peruvian man on a decades-long process of conversion, leading him and his disciples to a settlement in the West Bank, where they became caught up in a demographic contest with Palestinians for the future of Israel. […]
“The following is a description of a video that I did not watch,” writes Vanessa Barbara in her report on the nation’s recent presidential election in the February 23, 2023, issue of the Review. “‘A male synthetic organism was walking down the street when it came across an […]
Sponsored by House of Anansi Evan Kindley Departments on the Defensive A new book by John Guillory explores the history of literary studies and casts a despairing eye at the future of literary criticism. David S. Reynolds The Remarkable Grimkes A new multigenerational history of the abolitionist Grimke family […]
Purchase $35.95 (534 pages) Talking to the Wolf: The Alexander Dugin Interviews Nicholas Rooney Talking to the Wolf is an insightful and stimulating collection of interviews with Russian geopolitical philosopher Alexander Dugin, many of which appear in Nicholas Rooney’s fascinating 2022 film documentary The Wolf in the Moonlight. […]
New York Review of Books “Polls over the last decade indicated that no more than a quarter of Finns supported NATO membership,” writes Gordon F. Sander in the Review’s March 9 issue. One month after Russia invaded Ukraine last year, however, public opinion had shifted, and “a poll by Finland’s […]
Sponsored by Brandeis University Press Thomas Rogers The Long Shadow of German Colonialism The people of what was once German-occupied Africa are demanding reparations for the colonial violence that shapes the region to this day. Kathryn Hughes A Complicated Reformer Adherents to Maria Montessori’s radical methods have extended from […]
Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley History is fucking boring in this country and sadly, Black history is far from the exception that proves the rule. According to the straight white corporate guardians of Black History Month Incorporated, It’s all pacifism and peanut butter. The […]
1 97-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s stunning reveal as ‘The Masked Singer’ brought a judge to tears Few people manage to achieve the status of both Hollywood legend and human legend, but Dick Van Dyke is definitely one of them. The 97-year-old actor, dancer, singer and all-around showman blew […]
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A dispatch from our Art Editor on the art and illustrations in the Review’s February 23 and March 9 issues. In late January and early February, New York City temperatures hit strange highs, rain blindsided us, and snow was mostly absent. Over the course of four weeks, three friends visited, […]
New York Review of Books “What are the consequences of illuminating human darkness for entertainment?” asks John J. Lennon in our March 9 issue. “When we do this, do we hinder the progress of writers who focus on criminal justice reform?” He is writing about Sarah Weinman’s book Scoundrel, […]
We’re still offering a special discount on new memberships to the NYRB Classics Book Club: Sign up for twelve months now and you’ll receive $60 off the regular rate. Membership in the club ensures a monthly literary surprise selected from among our newest titles by the NYRB editors. […]
Magister David Harris called it “alright” and “nothing particularly special.” By James Factora February 10, 2023 Kim Petras performs onstage during the 65th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 05, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Although Ted Cruz and other Republicans might […]
Sponsored by Association of Writers & Writing Programs On January 24 we published Austin Gilkeson’s review of Amazon’s new Tolkien-inspired series, The Rings of Power. One of the pleasures of the source material, Gilkeson notes, is the “sense of a deep past that can be excavated through careful […]
— Gazelle Emami, culture editor, New York New York book critic Andrea Long Chu is a devoted player of video games, so I had a feeling she’d have something smart to say when The Last of Us was turned into an HBO series. She liked the show and, […]
Sponsored by W. W. Norton & Company Larry Rohter ‘Bad for Business’ In Harsh Times, Mario Vargas Llosa grieves for the path Guatemala might have taken had the United States and the United Fruit Company not intervened in 1954 to overthrow the reformist president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán. Hermione Lee The […]
We’re still offering a special discount on new memberships to the NYRB Classics Book Club: Sign up for twelve months now and you’ll receive $60 off the regular rate. Membership in the club ensures a monthly literary surprise selected from among our newest titles by the NYRB editors. […]
1 ‘SNL’ cast can’t keep it together during a sketch where Ego Nwodim battles her steak dinner Most episodes of “Saturday Night Live” are scheduled so the funnier bits go first and the riskier, oddball sketches appear towards the end, in case they have to be cut for […]
The iconic scene leaves behind a complicated legacy that remains relevant to this day. By James Clark The first time movie-goers saw Sylvester Stallone in his iconic role was October 1982, when director Ted Kotcheff’s First Blood blasted its way onto the big screen. Rambo is often the […]
Sponsored by University of Nebraska Press Ursula Lindsey Rape and Resistance in Egypt A new book recounts the heroics of activists who organized to protect women from sexual violence during the Egyptian revolution and to assert their right to participate in the country’s political life. Andrew Butterfield A ‘Magic […]
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— Marisa Carroll, features editor, New York Scrolling through your Netflix home screen, there are a million documentaries these days. Or are they reality shows? Or are they stealth advertisements for pop stars desperate for a brand reboot? In this delicious entertainment industry deep dive, New York’s Reeves […]
Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Coming soon! $33.95 (534 pages) Talking to the Wolf: The Alexander Dugin Interviews Nicholas Rooney Talking to the Wolf is an insightful and stimulating collection of interviews with Russian geopolitical philosopher Alexander Dugin, many of which appear […]
In the Review’s February 9, 2023, issue, Francesca Wade reviews a new biography of the enigmatic modernist Mina Loy, a poet and artist whose work has been “periodically ‘rediscovered’ while remaining elusive.” Her life was peripatetic and haunted: she had affairs with Italian Futurists, married the boxer-poet Arthur […]
Here’s the earliest known photo of WWII Army veteran Ed Farhat as he embarked on his professional career. Someone later added Farhat’s trademark beard with a sharpie. (Image courtesy: Dave Burzynski) 23 Jan 2023 Military.com|By James Barber Edward Farhat lived the American Dream. The 10th of 11 children […]
— Alan Sytsma, editor, Grub Street Whenever writer Emily Sundberg tells me she’s noticed something happening, I lean in. She has an uncanny ability to identify nebulous feelings that everyone has been sensing but nobody has quite figured out. In this case, she sent me a quick photo […]
Rafi Schwartz Meet Jeff Zients, Joe Biden’s new chief of staff Brendan Morrow 2023 Oscar nominations: The biggest snubs and surprises Theara Coleman ChatGPT passed a Wharton MBA exam, academics are taking note Advertisement by BetterHelp Save over $50 on professional online therapy Joel Mathis Why a Black […]
Sponsored by Provocations / University of Nebraska Press In 1917, a year after moving to New York City, the poet, painter, lampshade-maker, and all-around modern artist Mina Loy spoke with a reporter from the Evening Sun. As Francesca Wade writes in “‘The Sanctuary of Pure Expression,’” from the Review’s February […]
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