When investment bank Kauffman Schwartz passes out innovator awards, wealth advisor Ted Sullivan goes home empty-handed. The plan had been for both Ted and his friend, investment banker Alec Young, to win in their respective divisions at...
Every Sunday, Martin, his parents, and his dog, Maize, go to his grandparents’ house. Every visit is the same; bored one day, Martin decides to “[step] out into the unknown.” In detailed, action-packed double-page spreads in muted...
Her account fueled by the murder of a 16-year-old girl in Detroit, Neely opens with appalling statistics: Black girls and women make up 7% of the U.S. population, but “they were three times more likely to die by homicide compared to...
Those in London society who have met Miss Lydia Hope-Wallace know her only as a painfully shy, absurdly wealthy spinster. That’s because almost no one knows that she’s also responsible for the radical pamphlets published by her anonymous...
Inspired by the stories of people from the embattled region of Kashmir, Dorabji traces one family’s struggles from the 1970s through the near future of 2030. Aisha first appears as a young, socially isolated child living in the small...
Early in his prescient book, legal scholar Brescia points out a stunning irony. We all know this is the era of “surveillance capitalism,” in which the internet habitually violates our virtual space. We understand that purportedly free...
Salt is everywhere in Taoudeni, where Malik lives. His father, a salt trader, regularly crosses the desert to Timbuktu, leading his azalaï of a dozen camels carrying blocks of salt to places where salt is scarce and precious. This time,...
Mysterious clues about the location of an ancient superweapon send the South Florida teen into more of the magical, mythical Rymworld’s exotic realms, from the deadly Wytch Isles to the aptly named Forbidden Tundrå. In Rymworld, certain...
In the year 268, a handsome 26-year-old soldier, Valentinus Romanus, known as “Valentine,” saves the empress from an Alemanni attack. After the battle, he reminisces about his first love, a girl whom he knew as Rose, while drunkenly...
Featuring 10 popular party themes, from dinosaurs to superheroes, fairies to pirates, each section of the book includes a cake, a main, side dishes, party crafts and favors, and decor for a festive atmosphere. Party planners are...
Pittsburgh schoolmates Jane Strum and Ashley Strauss have very little in common. Whereas Ashley focuses a lot of attention on her social status, Jane is autistic, socially awkward, and prefers the company of her cat Lucy. But the two...
The story begins when Ruth Handler sees a doll on a family trip to Europe. It’s different than anything for sale in America, a grown-up doll rather than a baby doll, and she knows she’s on to something. Ruth is the co-founder of the toy...
In his first work of nonfiction, Zusak, the Australian author of the novels The Book Thief and The Messenger , offers a glimpse of his private life in Sydney, where his family has lived in thrall, as he would tell it, to the parade of...
Former army doctor John Watson is seeking new living quarters when he meets intelligent eccentric Sherlock Holmes. They become roommates at 221B Baker Street. Holmes’ array of oddly specific bits of knowledge and his constant stream of...
“Hi, monster friend!” says a scaly green creature. “I’m going to make a special snack for both of us.” Opening the Monster Cookbook , our protagonist displays the ingredients required for a “monster sandwich.” The recipe calls for two...
Life’s busy enough for young Cecilia, who has two full-time jobs: being a kid and interpreting for her Spanish-speaking parents. At any moment, they might request her services in “all kinds of grown-up places.” Donning a rather sharp...
Izzy’s twin sister, Grace, has been acting differently lately, so Izzy sneaks out one night and follows her into the woods. Turns out Grace belongs to the Midnight Society, a group of kids who meet to tell campfire stories. Grace is...
Nick Cameron, a “consulting geologist,” is having dinner in a “desiccated dump in the flat Sonoran Desert” in Arizona when in walks Theo, a dame “hotter than a Soviet drill bit at the bottom of the Kola Superdeep Borehole.” She’s got...
Quinn Le Blanc is the current Queen of Fives, reigning over the underworld from a “humble old house in Spitalfields” known as the Château. At 26, she has her eye on a new mark and is planning the ultimate con, to be carried out in five...
In his nonfiction debut, the author paints a wide-range portrait of the current state of the world and the challenges that it poses to contemporary philanthropic institutions: “The geopolitical fractures that constitute the headlines...
La asunción del presidente de Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, el año pasado significó el renacimiento de la democracia en un país notoriamente corrupto. Esfuerzos concertados de las élites amenazan ahora con derrocarlo bajo cargos falaces...
Bernardo Arévalo’s inauguration last year as president of Guatemala symbolized the revival of democracy in a notoriously corrupt country. A concerted effort by obstructionist elites now threatens to oust him on specious grounds—and bring...
When Joe Biden described himself this month as “the most pro-labor President in American history,” he was being overly self-congratulatory. Union density actually fell during his presidency, he signed a bill blocking a railroad workers...
“Even the best spies have their time in the cold,” an old secret agent tells his grandson. They’re sitting by the fire in an episode of Apple TV’s Slow Horses, adapted from Mick Herron’s best-selling novels. The agent is alluding to...
To the Editors: Daniel Kevles has written a fair and balanced review of my book, Brotherhood of the Bomb [NYR, December 4, 2003]. He correctly notes that my conclusion that Robert Oppenheimer was a member of a closed unit of...
At eighty-one, the British filmmaker Mike Leigh shows few signs of wanting to retire so long as he can find funding for his projects. This has always been a tricky business because of his working method: he never has a script to show...
As the Democratic Party reckons with another loss to Donald Trump, no issue looms larger than its continued hemorrhaging of working-class voters. It’s not hard to find proximate causes for this crisis. Inflation—which rose from 1.4...
Abduweli Ayup was born in 1973 in Upal, a town close to the city of Kashgar in the far west of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region—or East Turkestan, as many Uyghurs prefer to call their homeland. Upal is where the medieval linguist...
“With blondes, he praises their gentleness; with brunettes, their faithfulness…. The large ones he calls majestic, the little ones charming.” So Don Giovanni’s manservant, Leporello, tells the jilted Donna Elvira. Then the knife...
Donald Trump and his supporters have hardly been shy about his ambitions for education. They can be found laid out concisely in three documents: the Republican Party’s brief platform for his presidential campaign, known as Agenda 47; the...
On January 10 the Supreme Court will hear argument in an unprecedented First Amendment case that will determine the future of TikTok, a social media platform used by about 170 million Americans, or more than half the country’s...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art owes its extraordinary collection of Mexican prints to a single collector: the French (but also Mexican, but also American) artist and critic Jean Charlot. Born in Paris in 1898, Charlot arrived in Mexico...
If you were to ask any person in the English street, even an occasional concertgoer, to name our country’s outstanding musical figure from the past generation, you might hear the names of various conductors, pianists, maybe singers. But...
In Sam Gold's Romeo + Juliet, the lovers' headlong rush into marriage is in tension throughout with the surprising regression to childhood that characterizes so much of the production.
We’ve seen many skirmishes in America’s culture wars over the decades; one recent round, over abortion, was on the ballot in ten states during the 2024 elections. But the most dramatic battle of them all, between two of the twentieth...
When the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky first saw a tape of Balanchine’s Apollo, he watched in disbelief. Here was elegance without exaggeration, tension and beauty without stagy excess.
My face is a case studyin gravity. A face study. A grave.Effaced, I introduce myselfby name, a quippydelegate, ceci Susan,this lifelong stand-in.Named after my motheror rather, the pseudonym that hidher foreign origin. Shoushik.She’d...
sky and congestion up ahead—why wait in line with this chewed boot, this cold breakfast river below and everywhere the straight face of a season passing— long mile separates ice from ice here—maybe a...
Balzac’s The Lily in the Valley gives full-throated voice to romantic passion and at the same time contains it, inflating its rhetoric while ironizing it.
Something has gone terribly wrong. In his 2004 book Why Globalization Works, the economics journalist Martin Wolf wrote that “liberal democracy is the only political and economic system capable of generating sustained prosperity and...
Eliza Griswold, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, begins her latest book, Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church, by announcing her method as “immersion journalism.” The technique, she suggests,...
One evening during the Summer Olympics last August, I wandered through central Paris at dusk with a friend. We watched on a café TV as the American sprinter Noah Lyles narrowly won the hundred-meter dash and became the fastest man in the...
A freewheeling spirit runs through the history of Leverett, Massachusetts, which celebrated its 250th anniversary this year. Named for a colonial governor who advocated for religious tolerance and political autonomy, Leverett, with a...