G.W. Bowersock | The New York Review of Books

Elephant in the Room

November 21, 2019 issue

The Invention of Time

Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire

by Paul J. Kosmin

November 7, 2019 issue

Letter

Ra'anan Boustan

Elephant in the Room

November 21, 2019 issue

The Pirates of Palestine?

June 6, 2019 issue

The Many Lives of Palestine

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

by Nur Masalha

April 18, 2019 issue

Letter

Egon H.E. Lass

The Pirates of Palestine?

June 6, 2019 issue

Rootless Cosmopolitans

In Search of the Phoenicians

by Josephine Crawley Quinn

June 28, 2018 issue

The Voice of God

What the Qur’an Meant: And Why It Matters

by Garry Wills

December 7, 2017 issue

Lost on the Road to Damascus

The Kingdom

by Emmanuel Carrère, translated from the French by John Lambert

April 20, 2017 issue

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

March 21, 2017

Evolution & the Bible

December 22, 2016 issue

On the Election—I

What is to be done about the Republican Party?

November 10, 2016 issue

The Bible and the Perils of ‘Evolution’

The Good Book of Human Nature: An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible

by Carel van Schaik and Kai Michel

The Mediterranean World: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon

by Monique O’Connell and Eric R. Dursteler

Gottes Körper: Jüdische, christliche und pagane Gottesvorstellungen in der Antike [God’s Body: Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Conceptions of God in Antiquity]

by Christoph Markschies

October 27, 2016 issue

Letter

Carel van Schaik

Evolution & the Bible

December 22, 2016 issue

The Glory of Pergamon in New York

A new exhibition provides a wide-ranging exploration of the art and culture of the so-called Hellenistic world

Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, April 18–July 17, 2016

June 23, 2016 issue

The Classics: A Subtle New View

Classical Literature: An Epic Journey from Homer to Virgil and Beyond

by Richard Jenkyns

April 21, 2016 issue

‘Wholly Jewish’ Saint Paul?

January 14, 2016 issue

Inside the Emperors’ Clothes

Rome transformed and refashioned the cultures it absorbed, and we live today with the aftermath of its conquests

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

by Mary Beard

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

by Tom Holland

Néron en Occident: Une figure de l’histoire

by Donatien Grau

December 17, 2015 issue

Who Was Saint Paul?

The most enigmatic and controversial figure in the early history of Christianity

St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate

by Karen Armstrong

Who Made Early Christianity?: The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul

by John G. Gager

Paul’s Summons to Messianic Life: Political Theology and the Coming Awakening

by L.L. Welborn

Nietzsche Versus Paul

by Abed Azzam

November 5, 2015 issue

The Venice of the Sands in Peril

Among the great cities of antiquity Palmyra is comparable only to Petra in Jordan, Angkor Wat in Cambodia, and the Athenian Acropolis in Greece.

May 25, 2015

Money and Your Soul

The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity

by Peter Brown

May 21, 2015 issue

Please Pass the Blood

Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History

by Rachel Laudan

Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey

by Gary Paul Nabhan

August 14, 2014 issue

What a Saga!

‘The Story of the Jews’ by Simon Schama

The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BC–1492 AD

by Simon Schama

April 24, 2014 issue