New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books, often referred to as NYREV or NYRB, is a bi-monthly magazine that features articles covering literature, culture, economics, science, and contemporary issues. Based in New York City, it was founded on the belief that discussing significant books is a crucial part of literary life. Esquire magazine has praised it as "the top literary-intellectual publication in the English language." Additionally, in 1970, writer Tom Wolfe characterized it as "the main theoretical platform for Radical Chic."

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Translating from Troy to Ithaca | Daniel Mendelsohn, Lauren Kane

4 days ago | nybooks.com | Lauren Kane |Daniel Mendelsohn

New translations of Homer are bound to revive millennia-old questions of authorship and ancient diction. As Daniel Mendelsohn writes in the introduction to his rendition of the Odyssey, published this April by the University of Chicago Press, the alluring paradox of the epic is that contemporary readers can come to it “with a bracing sense of déjà vu: we feel we know these narratives, we have met these characters, we recognize these themes.
The Spy in the Jeu de Paume | Nina Siegal

6 days ago | nybooks.com | Nina Siegal

The word “resistance” is in heavy rotation these days, but it’s difficult to pin down its meaning in the current political landscape. For Americans of the last generation, however, it generally referred to the heroic French Resistance, which fought fascism during World War II by means of espionage and sabotage. This Resistance was not a single unified movement.
Climate Action | Elizabeth Kolbert, Jonathan Mingle, Bill McKibben

1 week ago | nybooks.com | Fintan O’Toole |Elizabeth Kolbert |Jonathan Mingle |Bill McKibben

The New York Review of Books presents the fourth installment in a series of online events hosted by Fintan O’Toole. New York Review contributors Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill McKibben, and Jonathan Mingle join O’Toole for a conversation on the damage a second Trump administration can bring to already meager efforts to curb global warming. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.
Organizing the Opposition | Sara Nelson, Astra Taylor, Zephyr Teachout

1 week ago | nybooks.com | Fintan O’Toole |Sara Nelson |Astra Taylor |Zephyr Teachout

For the third installment in a series of online events hosted by Fintan O’Toole, New York Review contributors Astra Taylor and Zephyr Teachout and AFA-CWA, AFL-CIO President Sara Nelson discuss what successful opposition looks like today. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.
Mischief in the Pages | Merve Emre, Sasha Weiss

1 week ago | nybooks.com | Sasha Weiss |Merve Emre

Sasha Weiss is the first editor I ever worked with on a reported piece, at the time a new type of assignment for me. I was writing about the mysterious Elena Ferrante and I was entirely unsure of what to do, but I soon discovered that I could put my faith in Weiss as part teacher, part therapist: She has a unique way of pushing her writers, forceful yet compassionate.
‘Illness and Its Very Concept’ | Edna Bonhomme

1 week ago | nybooks.com | Edna Bonhomme

When I decided to move from Brooklyn to Berlin in 2017, I was attracted by the prospect of a medical system that would protect me from debt and premature death. Like of people living in Germany, I have statutory health insurance, which means that when I had major abdominal surgery in 2022 I did not have any additional copays for my procedure or two-night hospital stay.
From Evasion to Defiance | David Cole

1 week ago | nybooks.com | David Cole

On June 2, 1919, bombs went off in eight cities across the country. One blew the door off the house of the country’s attorney general, A. Mitchell Palmer, in Georgetown. The government’s response was to round up thousands of foreign nationals, not on charges that they were involved in the bombings but for technical immigration violations and association with communist or anarchist organizations.
Vanishing Rights: Immigration, Deportation, and the Rhetoric of Invasion

2 weeks ago | nybooks.com | Fintan O’Toole |Francisco Cantú |Julia Preston |Hector Tobar

In the second of a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration, Fintan O’Toole hosts Francisco Cantú, Julia Preston, and Héctor Tobar for a panel on the fight for immigrant rights. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.
Justice for Chagos? | Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

2 weeks ago | nybooks.com | Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Like all laws that govern our countries, states, and communities, international law did not fall from the sky. It was conceived and established by a small cadre of Western powers against a backdrop of imperial expansion. It rationalized decades of pillage and domination by seeing non-Western peoples as uncivilized and therefore incapable of self-government.
The Portraitist | Coco Fusco

2 weeks ago | nybooks.com | Coco Fusco

This isn’t really my language, but the language I learned. So I’m reluctant to give something a name that is imposed on me. —Felix Gonzalez-TorresNearly thirty years after Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s death at the age of thirty-eight, his artworks are instantly recognizable. His stacks of paper, his piles of hard candy, and his strings of lightbulbs all play with geometric form, serial repetition, and outsourced fabrication in ways that helped to redefine minimalism.