Easter 2020: The Eighth Sacrament

Pandemic Journal, April 6–12

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Verlyn Klinkenborg in East Chatham, Hugh Eakin in Minneapolis–St. Paul, Dalia Hatuqa in Amman, and more.

April 11, 2020

Uncanny Christmas

Just as for Freud, ancient objects became metaphors for primal states, so for me, the accessories of childhood unlock an archaeology of the mind. Narrative tableaux based on overwrought religious imagery, especially as it intersects with consumerism, became my specialty.

December 24, 2017

Tolnay’s Michelangelo

December 3, 1964 issue

This Is a Test

May 13, 1993 issue

Books of Jewish Beauty

A new, gorgeously illustrated volume of Jewish manuscripts challenges the assumption that Jews have contributed little to the visual arts.

August 28, 2015

Specters of a Civilization

Martin Gusinde’s haunting photographs of the Selk’nam, Yamana and Kawésqar peoples—now collected and published in The Lost Tribes of Tierra del Fuego—present a way of life that has since ceased to exist.

August 9, 2015