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North Gaza: Between Death and Displacement

As it escalates its attacks on north Gaza, the Israeli army has ordered the entire civilian population to evacuate—and cut off food aid to all who remain.

October 17, 2024

Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein, and Steffie Woolhandler

The Only Way to Fix US Health Care

The evidence confirms what our patients regard as common sense: copays and deductibles cause people to skip needed care and hence suffer poorer health, and even mortal consequences.

November 7, 2024 issue

Patricia J. Williams

Expanding the Vocabulary

With great discipline and sanity, Kamala Harris has been navigating a minefield of Trumpian insults and attempts to debase her.

November 7, 2024 issue

Sue Halpern

The Coming Tech Autocracy

A functional government, committed to safeguarding its citizens, might be keen to create a regulatory agency for AI or pass comprehensive legislation, but we in the United States do not have such a government.

November 7, 2024 issue

Laurence H. Tribe

Where Freedom Ends

Law can oppress as easily as it can liberate, and it is the everyday life we lead at our kitchen tables and in our bedrooms that is most dangerously threatened by a return of Trump to power.

November 7, 2024 issue

Polaroid of an orchid taken by Ralph Ellison in his apartment on Riverside Drive in Manhattan, 1972–1994

Polaroid taken by Ralph Ellison in his apartment on Riverside Drive in Manhattan, 1972–1994

“As I’ve moved back and forth between Ellison’s photographs and the ruminations about the camera arts found in his writing, I’ve been struck by the extent to which he recognized in photographs and movies a hyperbolic reality that paralleled his own over-the-top imagination. His vision is as unruly as it is refined.”

— Jed Perl: Ralph Ellison’s Alchemical Camera

November 7, 2024

Current Issue

Election 2024: A Symposium

Jonathan Lethem

The Forty-Fourth Year of the Reagan Administration

What would it sound like if the Democratic elite said the quiet part out loud?

November 7, 2024 issue

Anne Enright

Words Not Said

On the undecided voter

November 7, 2024 issue

Matthew Desmond

How to Solve the Housing Crisis

What the next president can do

November 7, 2024 issue

Pankaj Mishra

The Flailing Superpower

The spectacle of America on the global stage

November 7, 2024 issue

Jacqueline Rose

Antigone’s Law

Who can make the world a better place?

November 7, 2024 issue

Elaine Blair

Stop Infantilizing Moderates!

Democrats need a stronger message for the uncommitted voter.

November 7, 2024 issue

Marilynne Robinson

‘The Joke Turns Fearful Earnest’

On taking democracy seriously

November 7, 2024 issue

Nathaniel Rich

Silent Spring

Why aren’t the candidates talking about climate change?

November 7, 2024 issue

Susan Faludi

Laugh-In

On the joyful Kamala Harris and the mirthless Donald Trump

November 7, 2024 issue

Mark Lilla

Another Change Election

On the need to preserve our institutions

November 7, 2024 issue

Christine Smallwood

As I Lay Dying

Across thousands of pages, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Morning Star series presents a relentless excess of its characters’ inner lives; at its best, it poses troubling questions about the scope of human knowledge.

November 7, 2024 issue

Nicole Rudick

‘A Woman Who Wins’

In her series of historical novels about the life of Saint Hilda of Whitby, Nicola Griffith explores how a woman of modest means became one of the most influential people in seventh-century Britain.

November 7, 2024 issue

Mark Danner

Getting Out the Fear Vote

As Trump improvises at his rallies, his grim imaginings of a mongrelized, crime-ridden country are transformed into unfalsifiable myths.

November 7, 2024 issue

Christine Henneberg

Calculated Risks

Since the overturning of Roe, it has once again become a subversive act to provide medical care for women as though their lives are as valuable as men’s.

November 7, 2024 issue

Christopher R. Browning

Hitler’s Enablers

The complicity of conservative nationalists in the Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933 offers disturbing parallels to the current American political situation.

November 7, 2024 issue

Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson

The Peril of Civil Breakdown

The US political situation radiates instability. How likely is extremist violence in the aftermath of the election?

November 7, 2024 issue

Fintan O’Toole

Playing for Time

With the boisterous energy of direct speech, the novelist Ferdia Lennon takes on both the playfulness and the harsh realism of Euripides.

November 7, 2024 issue

New Poems

Shane McCrae

Sonnet in Which Most of the Rhymes Fail

November 7, 2024 issue

Natalie Shapero

Semi-Arid

November 7, 2024 issue

Frances Leviston

Slip

October 17, 2024 issue

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Zephyr Teachout

Harris’s Chance on Trade

Kamala Harris has a chance to outflank Trump’s rhetoric on tariffs—and lay out her own vision of fair, green, worker-first global commerce.

October 13, 2024

J. Hoberman

The Beatles Effect

A new documentary treats the Fab Four’s Shea Stadium concert as a window into the dreams and nightmares of the summer of 1965.

October 12, 2024

Nate Wooley

Eastern Sounds

Ahmed Abdul-Malik recorded six overlooked albums combining jazz and North African folk music. A new European quartet has revived his legacy to create a new music of their own.

October 6, 2024

Joost Hiltermann

The Path to Regional War

For more than nine months, Israel and the Iran-led axis of resistance maintained a precarious balance of mutual deterrence. Now that balance has collapsed.

October 11, 2024

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October 24, 2024, 5pm

What If He Wins? A Conversation About Trump and the Law

Join New York Review contributors Fintan O’Toole, Pamela Karlan, and Mark Danner for a conversation about the legal issues at stake during the upcoming presidential election.

October 30, 2024, 4pm

‘For Our Freedom and Yours’: Ukraine, Europe, and the US Election

Join New York Review contributors Timothy Garton Ash and Timothy Snyder for a conversation around the fate of US policy in Ukraine and Russia during a Harris or Trump administration.

October 21–November 25

“What Will She Do?”: Merve Emre on Middlemarch

Join Merve Emre for a six-session webinar on George Eliot’s Middlemarch beginning Monday, October 21, 2024 at 5 pm EDT.

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Election 2024

Fintan O’Toole

Kamala’s Moment

Kamala Harris’s campaign asks: Who is a normal American now?

September 19, 2024 issue

Ben Tarnoff

Venture-Backed Trumpism

Why have right-wing ideas found such an eager audience among tech elites during Biden’s presidency?

September 19, 2024 issue

Fintan O’Toole

Trump’s Old News

The debate showed that the former president faces a new danger: not that his lies are outlandish but that they are getting stale.

September 13, 2024

Ian Frazier

Heeeere’s Tim!

Governor and Mrs. Walz break the Democrats’ pattern of seeming to prefer the coasts.

August 13, 2024

Free from the Archives

Geoffrey O’Brien: Back on Catfish Row

“What is striking about Porgy and Bess in performance is how much freedom Gershwin’s music allows for the exploration of character…. The music gives space for unanticipated revelation, just as it allows a flexibility of approach.”

Eric Owens as Porgy and Angel Blue as Bess in Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera

Get Thee to a Nunnery!

Meghan O’Gieblyn

Leaving the Fold

The memoir of a former nun who left her convent after twelve years reveals the contradictions of the monastic life as well as the limits of memoir.

June 20, 2024 issue

‘Joy’; from the Lombardy edition of the Taqwim as-Sihha, an eleventh-century medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad, circa 1390

Clair Wills

Love in Plague Time

In Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them, a novel that follows several hundred years in the life of an English nunnery in the Middle Ages, prioresses come and go, novices prove better or worse bets, and the masons leave the new chapel spire unfinished. But the interior voice speaks across the centuries.

January 16, 2020 issue

The writer Marie de France, who lived in England in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, pictured in a collection of poems in old French, from an illuminated manuscript copied in Paris circa 1285–1292

Mary Wellesley

Our Literary Foremothers

Diane Watt, a professor of medieval literature, shows that the earliest English women writers lived centuries before Julian of Norwich or Margery Kempe.

October 22, 2020 issue

Francine du Plessix Gray

Harrisburg: The Politics of Salvation

By 1970 Sister Elizabeth McAlister, a devout nun in the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary and an art history teacher at Marymount College, had been transformed by the recent revolution in the Church and the political turbulence of the 1960s. Then in 1970, she was arrested for allegedly conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger.

June 1, 1972 issue

The North Star State

Aida Alami

Somali and American, a Minnesotan Community

Established by European settlers in the nineteenth century, it was once referred to as “White Cloud.” But today, this town of 68,000 inhabitants has seen a growing number of Somali refugees arrive in the last two decades to work in meat factories or to attend the local campus of the state university.

July 2, 2019

David Treuer

The Power Brokers

A recent history centers the Lakota and the vast territory they controlled in the story of the formation of the United States.

December 3, 2020 issue

Garry Wills

The People’s Choice

When Jesse Ventura revealed that he does not wear underwear, Fruit of the Loom sent him 12,000 pairs of undershorts. He donated them to two charities. Even boorishness, in the alchemy of this moment, became a benefaction. The citizens of Minnesota treat Ventura as a sly practical joke they are playing on themselves.

August 12, 1999 issue

Alison Lurie

The Frog Prince

One of Garrison Keillor’s greatest gifts is his ability to modulate from realism to fantasy, or from low farce to high comedy.

November 24, 1988 issue

The Democrats

Russell Baker

The Heights of Charm

“Though all FDR’s medical advice indicated the job might kill him, he had grown into it. It was what he did and who he was. His love for it was so obvious that millions would have cried out in disbelief if told that he was quitting.”

September 29, 2016 issue

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

The Ages of Jackson

“If the frontier was the force driving the Jacksonian upheaval, how to account for the preoccupation in the pamphlet literature by Jackson’s supporters with problems of a commercial society—with monopoly, with banking, with the business cycle, with the unequal distribution of the fruits of labor, with workingmen, with trade unions, with class conflict?”

December 7, 1989 issue

Garry Wills

The Party Isn’t Over

“Carter is criticized for his Georgia mafia, his personal righteousness, his remaining an ‘outsider’ even while in office. But all of these are necessary if he is to retain some claim upon the South. Denied the easy appeal of Wallace and Nixon to repression and veiled racism, he must cling to the distinctive style that links him to the South.”

June 15, 1978 issue

Irvin Ehrenpreis

Buchanan Redux

“James Buchanan’s great accomplishment as president was to relieve Lincoln of the burden of provoking the Civil War.”

August 8, 1974 issue

Our Warming World

Aaron Matz

Flaubert’s Planet

Do novelists, and their readers, bear some responsibility for the climate crisis?

July 21, 2022 issue

Sophie Pinkham

A Hotter Russia

The cliché, avidly promoted by Moscow, is that Russia will be a relative winner in climate change, but a new book argues that the country will find itself in trouble.

June 23, 2022 issue

Jonathan Mingle

Reasons for Concern

The IPCC’s latest report, with warnings for supply chains and food security, may be the most suspense-filled document in human history.

March 9, 2022

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Israel and Gaza

Loubna El Amine

Lebanon: Memories of War

Israel’s attacks on Lebanon are striking not just individual Hezbollah members but my family’s entire social world.

September 23, 2024

Tareq Baconi

Killing Their Way to Peace

Israel’s targeted assassinations have never succeeded at dismantling Palestinian resistance movements. Now they threaten to set off a regional war.

August 15, 2024

Joshua Leifer

A ‘Moral, Strategic, and Diplomatic Abyss’

In the latest round of disputes within Israel’s ruling coalition, the eliminationist, messianic far right seems poised to triumph.

July 2, 2024

Isabella Hammad

Acts of Language

Amid the actual violence of Israel’s assault on Gaza, why have so many writers treated pro-Palestine speech as a threat?

June 13, 2024

Brief Encounters

Beatrice Radden Keefe, interviewed by Lauren Kane

Illuminating the Scriptorium

“There is possibly too much emphasis on the ‘wackiness’ of medieval life and thought. How easily we chortle at the goings-on in the margins of Gothic manuscripts, as if the pages were meant only to be silly.”

October 12, 2024

Elizabeth Kolbert, interviewed by Willa Glickman

Vegetative States

“Just about everything we have learned about the natural world in recent decades suggests that qualities like intelligence and sentience are much more widely distributed across the animal kingdom.”

September 28, 2024