Caleb Crain | The New York Review of Books

Lifer

October 17, 2024 issue

Fatal Embracements

In Tom Crewe’s debut novel The New Life, based on the first tolerant Victorian case studies of homosexuality, sex becomes a touchstone that helps bridge time.

The New Life

by Tom Crewe

December 7, 2023 issue

Sallies

February 9, 2023 issue

Idea Man

Exhalation

by Ted Chiang

Stories of Your Life and Others

by Ted Chiang

June 27, 2019 issue

‘Roma’: Through Cuarón’s Intimate Lens

Roma is an act of understanding—an investigation by director Alfonso Cuarón of where he came from, and of what and who made him.

January 12, 2019

Blood in the Sky

H Is for Hawk

by Helen Macdonald

April 23, 2015 issue

Almost History

At the end of World War II, as it became clear that Hitler was headed for defeat, Russia and the Western powers raced against each other to claim territory in Europe. It looked as if all of Eastern Europe was fated to fall under Soviet sway. At the last minute, however, it almost didn’t turn out that way.

August 21, 2013

‘In Defense of the New York Public Library’: An Exchange

July 12, 2012 issue

Letter

Robert Darnton

A Turning Point for the NYPL

The biggest change in the library since it opened 101 years ago

October 25, 2012 issue

A Very Different Pakistan

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

by Daniyal Mueenuddin

November 5, 2009 issue

‘Move Closer, Please’

The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson

an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 7–December 31, 2007, and the Amon Carter Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, February 16–April 27, 2008.

May 1, 2008 issue

The Miracle Woman

Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America

by Matthew Avery Sutton

July 19, 2007 issue

The Murder of Lucy Pollard

A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial

by Suzanne Lebsock

Race Man: The Rise and Fall of the 'Fighting Editor' John Mitchell Jr.

by Ann Field Alexander

July 15, 2004 issue

A Star Is Born