Race & Romance in America

James Baldwin & the Fear of a Nation

His observations about race in America feel as relevant and cutting as ever

May 12, 2016 issue

What Protest Looks Like

“When Living Is a Protest,” a series of twenty-two images by photographer Radcliffe “Ruddy” Roye, expands our notion of what protest can mean.

October 20, 2016

Kushinagar

The extraordinarily successful French magazine *XXI* is the publishing industry’s greatest champion of comics reportage. It has regularly sent cartoonists out into the world and given them a good deal of magazine space. Editor Patrick de Saint-Exupery, a seasoned journalist himself, was open to any idea I had and supportive…

May 19, 2012

Luc Tuymans: A Retrospective

In “Gray Magic,” from the February 11 issue of The New York Review, Sanford Schwartz writes about the Luc Tuymans retrospective, which will be on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from February 6 to May 2. (It originated at the Wexner Center for the Arts in…

January 22, 2010

Houdon’s Sensuous Sculpture

In “The Best Faces of the Enlightenment,” from the April 8 issue of The New York Review, Willibald Sauerländer writes about a new exhibition of the work of Jean-Antoine Houdon, whom he calls “the last and probably greatest French sculptor of the eighteenth century.” In his works—a selection of which…

March 19, 2010

David Levine: A Slide Show

January 8, 2010