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Our 5/28 issue is now online, with
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on Bill Gates, Frances Wilson on Liza,
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on Ben Lerner, Lynn Hunt on Marat’s afterlife, Charlie Lee on John Gregory Dunne in Vegas, Nina Siegal on the Hoosier grave robber, and much more.
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May 28, 2026 Issue
Table of Contents
https://www.nybooks.com/issues/2026/05/28/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-07_05-28-26-issue-reveal
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“Now that his trio of high-profile cultural projects has been completed, speculation is rife in architectural circles about whether David Adjaye can regain his former eminence.” —Martin Filler
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The Rise and Fall of David Adjaye | Martin Filler
Three high-profile buildings by the eminent Ghanian British architect have just been completed, but allegations of sexual misconduct have severely damaged his prospects for future commissions.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-david-adjaye-princeton-collects/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-07_Filler-Adjaye-3
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“She was the ‘queen of the comeback,’ Judy Garland liked to say; she couldn’t go to the powder room without making a comeback.” —Frances Wilson on Liza Minnelli’s memoir
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Mommie Dearest | Frances Wilson
In Liza Minnelli’s riveting memoir, the ghost of Judy Garland is felt on every page.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/mommie-dearest-kids-wait-till-you-hear-this-liza-minnelli/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-12_Wilson-Minnelli-2
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Jarret Earnest on all the crushes, kisses, tears, and broken hearts of pop music
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Pop & Pleasure & Freedom | Jarrett Earnest
In his decades of writing about pop music, Jon Savage came to understand its liberatory power.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/pop-pleasure-freedom-the-secret-public-jon-savage/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-12_Earnest-TheSecretPublic-1
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Charlie Lee on John Gregory Dunne’s descent into the “idiot Disneyland,” Las Vegas
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What Happened in Vegas | Charlie Lee
An impulsive trip to America’s “idiot Disneyland” thrust John Gregory Dunne among characters who, like him, sought distraction from their private miseries.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/what-happened-in-vegas-john-gregory-dunne/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-12_Lee-Dunne-1
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David Wheatley (
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Against Nostalgia | David Wheatley
In their poems and essays, Kathleen Jamie and Peter Davidson transcend Scottish sentimentalism and find new points of entry into their shared past.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/against-nostalgia-kathleen-jamie-peter-davidson/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-12_Wheatley-2ScottishPoets-1
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Gary Singh
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"Dunne 'was a writer of high taste who delighted in the distasteful, an arch and erudite stylist with the gutter-bound soul of a tabloid hack.' And in Vegas he found the perfect material."
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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What Happened in Vegas | Charlie Lee
An impulsive trip to America’s “idiot Disneyland” thrust John Gregory Dunne among characters who, like him, sought distraction from their private miseries.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/what-happened-in-vegas-john-gregory-dunne/
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Sam Sacks
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"Poetry has been, faute de mieux, one of the metaphors most frequently used for Atget’s bittersweet gaze. There’s something Dickinsonian about his empty spaces, his often quite literal slant." Excellent Max Norman piece on the stark, angular genius of Eugène Atget.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Quoting the World | Max Norman
There may be no unifying style in Eugène Atget’s photographs—only an uncanny realism that still arrests viewers a century after his death.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/quoting-the-world-max-norman/
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Anna Merlan
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There's a lot of concerning new reporting about Vitamin K refusal but unfortunately that's been going on for a while. Here's one of the best pieces I've read about it, from 2019:
www.nybooks.com/online/2019/...
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Among the Vitamin K ‘Anti-Vaxxers’ | Rachel Pearson
Babies are at the highest risk for Vitamin-K Deficiency Bleeding in the first week of life, so the standard of care is to give the shot within an hour after birth. Many parents don’t know that the ris...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2019/01/31/among-the-vitamin-k-anti-vaxxers/
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Adam Hochschild on Molly Crabapple’s history of the Jewish Bund
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A Dream of a Socialist Commonwealth | Adam Hochschild
Molly Crabapple’s history of the Bund recovers an egalitarian, secular, cosmopolitan vision of Jewish identity and political life that was lost in the horrors of the twentieth century.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/a-dream-of-a-socialist-commonwealth-the-jewish-bund/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-12_Hochschild-TheBund-1
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“As Silicon Valley took its modern shape in the 1990s, it did so under the shadow of Bill Gates.... He was the father they rebelled against and, in so rebelling, became.” —
@bentarnoff.com
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Whither the Nerd-Bully? | Ben Tarnoff
Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/whither-the-nerd-bully-bill-gates/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-12_Tarnoff-Gates-2
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Gary Rawnsley
about 7 hours ago
“Trump & Netanyahu have set back the cause of Iranian freedom. Their responsibility for the political winter that follows will not be small.”
@bellaiguec.bsky.social
in a terrific essay on
#Iran
published in the latest
@nybooks.com
add a skeleton here at some point
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Simon Abrams
about 24 hours ago
Dennis Lim’s NYRB write-up of the Georgian drama DRY LEAF is unassuming and expansive and exemplary—a Dennis Lim specialty.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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How Should a Pixel Be? | Dennis Lim
Every low-resolution frame of Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf, shot on a mobile phone nearly twenty-years-old, enacts a drama of form.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/how-should-a-pixel-be-dry-leaf-koberidze/
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The Guerrilla Girls “presented a feminist protest that was at first completely disembodied: a set of posters [that were]...cerebral, fact-based, ironic, with feelings and genitals only distantly implied.” —Elaine Blair
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The Masked Avengers | Elaine Blair
The Guerrilla Girls used indisputable data and a dry, polished style to show that the art world, contrary to its self-conception, was deeply retrograde.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/the-masked-avengers-how-to-be-a-guerrilla-girl/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-06_Blair-GuerrillaGirls-3
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“Pedantry has often been imagined as a physical condition,” Clare Bucknell writes. “Accusations of pedantry often take this form because getting to grips with minds is difficult.”
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Charlatans & Bores | Clare Bucknell
The profile of the pedant has changed surprisingly across time periods and cultures, but what’s constant is that nobody wants to be called one.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/charlatans-bores-on-pedantry-visser/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-06_Bucknell-Visser-3
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“There is another kind of dance you might see in Darfur today: the dance of those who survived massacres…. By dancing they forge a kind of noble, sorrowful equilibrium that might help them go on living or escape once again.” —Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin
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After El-Fasher | Jérôme Tubiana, Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin
It is hardly surprising that people dance during war. Sometimes these are dances of victory. This past October, after eighteen months of siege, the city
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/05/03/after-el-fasher-darfur-sudan/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-05_Tubiana-SudanJanuary26-2
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“The best way to learn something,” Michael Gorra writes, on a class he offered for most of his career, “is to teach it.”
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My Classroom Life | Michael Gorra
The English department I hoped to join had two tenure-track jobs going that year, and one of them looked straightforward enough. They needed a
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/05/01/my-classroom-life/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-06_Gorra-Ambition_Adultery-3
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“June Leaf’s need to literally feel her way through her work is also a subject of her art—perhaps her overriding subject.” —Nicole Rudick
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Seeing by Hand | Nicole Rudick
“I feel my fingers have eyes,” June Leaf once said. The need to literally feel her way through her work is a primary subject of her art.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/seeing-by-hand-june-leaf/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-05_Rudick-Leaf-2
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“Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s music is about as eclectic as his career, managing to fuse together all of the traditions he loves: European romantic melodies, African drumming, jazz, folk, and of course a healthy dose of synthesizers.” —
@bijan.bsky.social
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Ever New | Bijan Stephen
As a child, when I learned about capital-H History, I pictured it as a kind of basalt cliff: unmovable, unshakeable, a monument I could look up
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/30/ever-new-beverly-glenn-copeland/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-05_Stephen-Glenn_Copeland-2-copy
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Jane Bayard Curley on the ninetieth anniversary of ‘The Story of Ferdinand’ at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
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His Moo Was Refined | Jane Bayard Curley
On a rainy Sunday in New York City in October 1935, Munro Leaf, an editor at the book publisher Frederick A. Stokes Company, picked up a legal pad and
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/05/02/his-moo-was-refined-the-story-of-ferdinand/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-05_Curley-Ferdinand-2
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“We underestimate the consequences of losing [salt lakes],” Rosa Lyster writes. “Their disappearance represents a public health crisis, already underway in some parts of the world.”
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This Bitter Earth | Rosa Lyster
The world’s salt lakes are the canary in the coal mine for the climate crisis, and they are shrinking at a drastic rate.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/this-bitter-earth-salt-lakes-tracey/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-05_Lyster-SaltLakes-3
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"In Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s music, the present moment is an astonishing, improbable gift"
@nybooks.com
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Ever New | Bijan Stephen
As a child, when I learned about capital-H History, I pictured it as a kind of basalt cliff: unmovable, unshakeable, a monument I could look up
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/30/ever-new-beverly-glenn-copeland/?src=longreads
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The Peepers | Dan Chiasson
Easter morning Hungry to gainon quiet and nightand cold and rain we pixelatewe complicateour veins are antifreeze our throats are bubblegumour
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/the-peepers-dan-chiasson/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-10_Chiasson-poem-1
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“I consciously write bespoke biographies, cutting my cloth to fit my subject. It’s a form of homage.” —Frances Wilson, interviewed by Chandler Fritz
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‘I Couldn’t Have Done It Without You’ | Frances Wilson, Chandler Fritz
“Most memoirists Botox out their own imperfections, but celebrity ghostwriters tend to do the full facelift.”
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/05/09/i-couldnt-have-done-it-without-you-frances-wilson/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-09_Wilson-BE-1
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“I find finance boring at best and evil at worst—and yet I’m always closely observing men who work in it. When I look at these people, do I see something I recognize?” —an interview with Daniel Lefferts
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Mystery Brain | Daniel Lefferts, Daniel Drake
Last year the right-wing Passage Publishing, whose mission—“to push forward new ideas and ways of thinking that can break us out of our cultural and
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/05/02/mystery-brain-daniel-lefferts/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-04_Lefferts-BE-2
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“When I first caught sight of [David Adjaye’s Princeton University Art Museum], the term Costco Brutalism crossed my mind, but on further reflection I decided that was inaccurate.... [It’s] more like a genteel suburban Nordstrom.” —Martin Filler
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The Rise and Fall of David Adjaye | Martin Filler
Three high-profile buildings by the eminent Ghanian British architect have just been completed, but allegations of sexual misconduct have severely damaged his prospects for future commissions.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-david-adjaye-princeton-collects/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-04_Filler-Adjaye-2
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“Think of salt lakes as the canary in the coal mine...Keeping watch over what is happening to these places is a good way of keeping watch over everything else.” —Rosa Lyster
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This Bitter Earth | Rosa Lyster
The world’s salt lakes are the canary in the coal mine for the climate crisis, and they are shrinking at a drastic rate.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/this-bitter-earth-salt-lakes-tracey/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-03_Lyster-SaltLakes-2
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“Paul Chan’s sculptures are complicated social creatures…. [They] come so eerily close to the brink of life, the gallery at times felt hard to stomach as the venue of their display.” —Dawn Chan
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Inflatable Life | Dawn Chan
On Paul Chan at Greene Naftali
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/inflatable-life-paul-chan-automa-mon-amour/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-04_Chan-Chan-2
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“The high gore quotient of Titus has proved as problematic for interpreters as for directors. Many scholars believe that Shakespeare could not have written the play.” —James Romm
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Vengeance Is Theirs | James Romm
As if to counterweight the gentle, tender-hearted Shakespeare of the film Hamnet, now the brutal and bloody Titus Andronicus has arrived in New York, in
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/26/vengeance-is-theirs/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-04_Romm-Titus-3
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“That’s a catchy phrase, I thought, ‘ambition and adultery’.... A course with that title might be fun to teach.” —Michael Gorra
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My Classroom Life | Michael Gorra
The English department I hoped to join had two tenure-track jobs going that year, and one of them looked straightforward enough. They needed a
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/05/01/my-classroom-life/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-04_Gorra-Ambition_Adultery-2
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“Iranian democrats who were ‘against the war’ desire regime change no less fervently than those who petitioned Trump to attack. The difference is that they want Iranians, not foreigners, to do the job.” —Christopher de Bellaigue
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Iran’s New Winter | Christopher de Bellaigue
The US-Israeli war against Iran, far from encouraging a popular uprising, has strengthened the regime’s grip and set back the cause of Iranian freedom indefinitely.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/irans-new-winter-christopher-de-bellaigue/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-09_Bellaigue-IranApril2026-3
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“Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s music is about as eclectic as his career, managing to fuse together all of the traditions he loves: European romantic melodies, African drumming, jazz, folk, and of course a healthy dose of synthesizers.” —
@bijan.bsky.social
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Ever New | Bijan Stephen
As a child, when I learned about capital-H History, I pictured it as a kind of basalt cliff: unmovable, unshakeable, a monument I could look up
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/30/ever-new-beverly-glenn-copeland/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-03_Stephen-Glenn_Copeland-2
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“The Guerrilla Girls were not petitioners standing outside a building making demands. They had gotten inside. They were moles and whistleblowers, with a dash of the incognito gossip columnist.” —Elaine Blair
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The Masked Avengers | Elaine Blair
The Guerrilla Girls used indisputable data and a dry, polished style to show that the art world, contrary to its self-conception, was deeply retrograde.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/the-masked-avengers-how-to-be-a-guerrilla-girl/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-03_Blair-GuerrillaGirls-2
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“Our understanding of pedantry is…a relatively narrow one,” Clare Bucknell writes. “The only constant across different time periods and milieus is that no one has wanted to be accused of it.”
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Nina Siegel on the real-life Indiana tomb raider
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Indiana’s Indiana Jones | Nina Siegal
FBI agents who raided an Indiana farm in 2014 were astonished to find some 42,000 artifacts and bones looted by an amateur archaeologist.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/indianas-indiana-jones-the-grave-robber-carpenter/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-08_Siegal-ArtCrime-1
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Christopher Tayler (
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‘Facing the Past’ | Christopher Tayler
Ben Lerner’s dazzling new novel, Transcription, plays variations on the conflicts and bonds that are felt among three generations.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/facing-the-past-transcription-ben-lerner/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-08_Tayler-Lerner-1
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“As I grew older I found myself drawn to the basic scenario that animates the Hardy Boys—a menacing force lurking under a seemingly idyllic surface—in other things I read and watched.” —an interview with Daniel Lefferts
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Mystery Brain | Daniel Lefferts, Daniel Drake
Last year the right-wing Passage Publishing, whose mission—“to push forward new ideas and ways of thinking that can break us out of our cultural and
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/05/02/mystery-brain-daniel-lefferts/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-08_Lefferts-BE-3
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“Rather than proceed from underground to the real world above, June Leaf finds value in plumbing things dimly seen.” —Nicole Rudick
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Seeing by Hand | Nicole Rudick
“I feel my fingers have eyes,” June Leaf once said. The need to literally feel her way through her work is a primary subject of her art.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/seeing-by-hand-june-leaf/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-08_Rudick-Leaf-3
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“What gives Stojka’s work its power is how finely it balances the clarity of folk art…with a gouging expressionism that keeps the horrors of the Holocaust fresh.” —
@benadavis.bsky.social
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Visions of Depravity | Ben Davis
On Ceija Stojka at the Drawing Center
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/visions-of-depravity-ceija-stojka-making-visible/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-02_Davis-Stojka-2
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John Wright of Derby, the “painter of light,” was also “a painter of the Enlightenment,” Julian Bell writes. “Attentiveness may be the stuff of these chiaroscuros.”
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Drawn to the Void | Julian Bell
John Wright of Derby introduced chiaroscuro to British audiences, using everything from blazing bladders to ivory planets to illuminate his dazzled subjects.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/drawn-to-the-void-wright-of-derby/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-02_Bell-WrightOfDerby-3
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Eugène Atget’s “pictures of the deserted streets and shabby interiors of old Paris still breathe mystery a century after his death.” —Max Norman
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Quoting the World | Max Norman
There may be no unifying style in Eugène Atget’s photographs—only an uncanny realism that still arrests viewers a century after his death.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/30/quoting-the-world-max-norman/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-02_Norman-Atget-2
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“Titus Andronicus is rarely seen on the stage, in part due to the traumas it can inflict on an audience. The most notable modern version…reportedly saw twenty faintings at a single performance.” —James Romm
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Vengeance Is Theirs | James Romm
As if to counterweight the gentle, tender-hearted Shakespeare of the film Hamnet, now the brutal and bloody Titus Andronicus has arrived in New York, in
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/26/vengeance-is-theirs/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-02_Romm-Titus-2
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Jeff Wasserstrom
5 days ago
I can't remember when an issue of
@nybooks.com
had a TOC that grabbed me the way the latest does: 3 authors who are totally different but all ones I enjoy reading & always learn from: Lynn Hunt, Adam Hochschild, & w/ a stunningly good NYRB debut
@louisalim.bsky.social
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Scarred in Hong Kong | Louisa Lim
Recent fiction by Hong Kong writers explores life in a society traumatized by ever-tightening Chinese national security laws that suppress political discussion and artistic freedom.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/scarred-in-hong-kong-city-like-water-dorothy-tse/
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“Tubiana does not take photos at random; behind every picture is a story about power and money, culture and identity, social and racial inequalities, war and peace.” —Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin
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After El-Fasher | Jérôme Tubiana, Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin
It is hardly surprising that people dance during war. Sometimes these are dances of victory. This past October, after eighteen months of siege, the city
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/05/03/after-el-fasher-darfur-sudan/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-07_Tubiana-SudanJanuary26-3
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Joel S.
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"In 1939, when some legislators proposed an exception... that would allow 20,000 Jewish refugee children into the United States... 25.8 percent of American Jews opposed increasing the tiny quota for refugees, because they feared it would provoke antisemitism."
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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A Dream of a Socialist Commonwealth | Adam Hochschild
Molly Crabapple’s history of the Bund recovers an egalitarian, secular, cosmopolitan vision of Jewish identity and political life that was lost in the horrors of the twentieth century.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/a-dream-of-a-socialist-commonwealth-the-jewish-bund/#fn-1
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“A story that reflected the fears and hopes of its day continues, somehow, to reflect those of our own.” —Jane Bayard Curley on ‘The Story of Ferdinand’
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His Moo Was Refined | Jane Bayard Curley
On a rainy Sunday in New York City in October 1935, Munro Leaf, an editor at the book publisher Frederick A. Stokes Company, picked up a legal pad and
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/05/02/his-moo-was-refined-the-story-of-ferdinand/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-07_Curley-Ferdinand-3
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"Finding his music again feels right because it’s a connection we sorely needed and nearly missed." —@bijan.bsky.social on Beverly Glenn-Copeland for
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Ever New | Bijan Stephen
As a child, when I learned about capital-H History, I pictured it as a kind of basalt cliff: unmovable, unshakeable, a monument I could look up
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/30/ever-new-beverly-glenn-copeland/
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Ben Tarnoff
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I'm in the new issue of
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thinking about Bill Gates, whose point-blank execution in the South Park movie by a US general who's angry about the shittiness of Windows is a core memory for me
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Whither the Nerd-Bully? | Ben Tarnoff
Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/whither-the-nerd-bully-bill-gates/
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“The yearning for foreign intervention among some opponents of the regime and the unease this caused in many others have opened a fissure that the Islamic Republic, adept at divide and rule, will exploit.”—Christopher de Bellaigue
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Iran’s New Winter | Christopher de Bellaigue
The US-Israeli war against Iran, far from encouraging a popular uprising, has strengthened the regime’s grip and set back the cause of Iranian freedom indefinitely.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/irans-new-winter-christopher-de-bellaigue/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-05-07_Bellaigue-IranApril2026-2
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David Wheatley
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What a pleasure to find myself holding forth on Scottish poetry in the new issue of the New York Review of Books. Many thanks to Jana Prikryl and the Review for extending me the hospitality of their pages.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Against Nostalgia | David Wheatley
In their poems and essays, Kathleen Jamie and Peter Davidson transcend Scottish sentimentalism and find new points of entry into their shared past.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/against-nostalgia-kathleen-jamie-peter-davidson/
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Josh Marshall
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"Computerization meant that the commanding heights of the economy would come to be occupied by men who had spent their formative years getting stuffed into lockers, and were now determined to exact their revenge." (paywall)
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Whither the Nerd-Bully? | Ben Tarnoff
Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/whither-the-nerd-bully-bill-gates/
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