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Sam Needleman

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  • 1 month ago | nybooks.com | Sam Needleman |David Salle

    Sanford Schwartz once wrote in The New York Review that when David Salle puts down his brush and picks up his pen to write art criticism, he does so with the same “seemingly out-of-nowhere assurance” with which he arrived on the painting scene in the late 1970s.

  • 2 months ago | nybooks.com | Sam Needleman

    Tacita Dean’s mesmerizing, elegiac drawing and filmmaking spring from both broad exploration and acute focus.

  • Mar 29, 2025 | nybooks.com | Sam Needleman |Nell Irvin Painter

    Since the end of the last century, Nell Irvin Painter writes in her essay “‘This Land Is Yours,’” published in our March 27 issue, historians of many different American regions have shown in their work that “places assumed to be only and always White were not.” One of the purposes of these local Black histories has been to challenge “the delusion,” as Painter calls it, that parts of the country other than the South constitute “a land of freedom far removed from the American original sin of...

  • Nov 16, 2024 | nybooks.com | Sam Needleman |Ruth Yeazell

    Ruth Bernard Yeazell is a scholar of the novel whose work has focused more on the visual arts than the average literary critic’s. She has written for The New York Review not only about Austen, Dickens, and George Eliot, but also about Frans Hals, Vermeer, female self-portraitists, and, in our November 21, 2024, issue, John Singer Sargent.

  • Jul 6, 2024 | nybooks.com | Sam Needleman |Francine Prose

    Among the essays about novels in the Review’s 2024 Fiction Issue—including Anne Enright on John McGahern’s The Pornographer and Michael Gorra on Percival Everett’s James—is a review by Francine Prose of Tommy Orange’s first two books, There There and Wandering Stars. “Deploying the capaciousness and elasticity of the novel form,” Prose writes, “Orange switches back and forth from the intimate to the panoramic, from the present to the past. He can probe deeply into each character’s psyche….

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The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books @nybooks
29 Jun 25

“Since the first hour of the war I’ve been speaking with my friends and family in Iran,” writes Amir Ahmadi Arian. On that first day they were “united in a chorus of fatalism.” https://t.co/SbLQfpTQiJ

The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books @nybooks
28 Jun 25

“More academic historians certainly ought to acquire the skill of writing for large audiences. To do so gratifies the ego, swells the bank account, and may give pause to those who knowingly or not, distort what actually happened and why.” —@mkazin https://t.co/Us3eJHUHiY

The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books @nybooks
28 Jun 25

Miriam Pensack (@MiriamPensack) on the “Zonians” clamoring for American control of the Panama Canal https://t.co/tOQ9YNPXeG