The story opens some time past the 2040s in an underground “pod” bunker, where 16-year-old Eten has formidable psychic powers and trademark silver hair. Her younger siblings share similar genetic traits, though not so strongly developed....
Cooley, professor of political science at Barnard College, and Dukalskis, associate professor of politics and international relations at University College Dublin, open with the West’s celebration of the USSR’s collapse in 1989. Victory...
Some years ago I published a book called New York City of Trees. On facing pages of photographs and text, it presented portraits of fifty-five trees in the city’s five boroughs. One was of a Callery pear in the Chelsea neighborhood of...
On the morning of December 31, 1999, hundreds of people gathered at the base of the Panama Canal Administration Building, a sweeping, colonial-style beige edifice carved into a steep hill on the edge of Panama City and flanked by an...
Kirby is scared. His dads are separated, and his brother keeps having seizures. During them, Baxter says he sees “the lightning people”—and that “they’re coming.” As Baxter’s seizures worsen, Kirby uses his passion for theater to write...
The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) remains one of the greatest works of personal prose writing in the English language. Offering insights into politics, reviewing theatrical and musical performances, and chronicling Pepys’ loves and...
As they’re closing down RJ’s Taproom after another routine night, co-owner Randall Low and waitress/dancer Cindy Kaczorek are shot to death. Their killer escapes without touching the cash register, leaving the Paterson Police Department...
Judith Drainger moves from London to Adelaide, Australia, at the age of 59 following two major life changes: the death of her domineering mother, Marigold, and her divorce. It’s a big adjustment, but Judith has been known to make such...
On July 21, 2021, after Donald Trump had finished his first term as president, he gave an interview at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey to a ghost writer and a publisher who were working on the memoirs of his former chief of staff...
Designated “Driver Eight,” 15-year-old Shiloh attempts neural linking with “the machine.” This giant robot landed on Earth long ago, and scientists from around the world have gradually recovered scattered parts. In the U.S., Synap...
It’s hard to be a mother in any society, but for Muslims, the stress of modern parenting’s contradictory demands can sometimes seem impossible to bear. With this book, bint Rehan offers “an excavation of the environment in which we...
Abbott’s latest opens with a sense of foreboding—a feeling synonymous with Abbott and one that only grows as the hardships of three suburban Detroit women come to light. The Bishop sisters—Debra, Pam, and Harper—are resilient, but they...
Marie Jones was a social worker from Staten Island, but that was before she transformed herself into a private investigator, got a divorce, and moved to Manhattan. When she wears a blond wig, fake teeth, and red lipstick, she’s Luella...
Tenacious has always lived up to her name, whether walking to a waterfall when her legs are tired or climbing to the “tippy-top of the tire swing.” And now she’s determined to ride her bike in the Wheel Parade. Although she does her best...
The story begins—and remains—at a vast, dilapidated compound in the desert where narrator Lily and nine other young women await the arrival of “the boys.” (The compound’s setting is unspecified, and there are hints about dystopian times:...
In this debut book, Jackson explores California’s public lands—not the national parks and forests, but the 15 million acres that fall under the purview of the Bureau of Land Management. The quest began when a beleaguered Jackson couldn’t...
In this incisive and thought-provoking memoir, moderate Republican Murkowski dives directly into her Senate career, beginning with her controversial 2002 appointment by her father, followed by four hard-won terms—including her historic...
Until Clara Driscoll’s letters to her family were found, no one knew that she was responsible for these creations. After studying art and design, Clara moved from her Ohio farm to New York City and was hired by glassmaker Louis Comfort...
Seven years after saving McKenzie’s life, Angela Bjork has a request. She’d like him to track down the Ankylosaurus skull valued at $6 million that was taken from a dig she was working near Powderville, Montana, before it had even been...
Big is a dream who towers over all the other dreams in his town. In this story, they all have only two goals: to find their matching person and to help them realize their dream; when they’re successful, the dreams turn blue. As other,...
The author, an integrative healthcare practitioner, takes readers on a journey through the ins and outs of reiki, framing it as a method of healing and rejuvenation—and not, she clarifies, as a kind of religious belief. Reiki, a Japanese...
The author invites readers on a “journey of self-recovery where [they’ll] know with every molecule within [them] that [they] are worthy.” Sánní discusses her training in practices like Neuro-Linguistic Programming and her experience...
The narrative opens on 10-year-old Marlene, who lives in rural Tennessee during the Great Depression. During summer break, she helps her family with chores, spends time with her 6-year-old brother, Silas, and makes regular trips into...
The summer has started late, so I’ve been late to fold up the winter blankets and put them away. This newsletter comes to you from my annual putting-the-blankets-in-the-closet weekend and covers the art and illustrations in the June 12...
Getting sick in Gaza means entering a system that is itself on life support. To see a doctor in the first place, if you can’t afford the outrageous cost of transportation by car you often have to walk long distances on nearly impassable...
It’s 2011—not a simpler time, but one whose cultural turbulence, now settled in hindsight, is bound to appear more manageable than our own. The declared threats to the art world aren’t the Sacklers or the censorship of Palestinian...
As Nina Siegal observes in our May 29 issue, history is often found in the margins: a scribbled diary entry, a name scrawled on the back of a stolen painting, or, the subject of Siegal’s essay, a museum quietly watched by a woman no one...
In June 2020—three months after the Covid-19 pandemic shut down New York City, killing at least 18,600 residents to that point, in the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement, the biggest social uprising in the city’s history—a...
In 1860 Milton Bradley released The Checkered Game of Life, a board game in which players compete across a patterned plane of gilt and muslin, beginning on a square marked “Infancy” and ending, if they are lucky, at the opposite corner,...
What we’ve come to call “election denial” is, of course, a conspiracy theory, and support for that is an article of faith for many Trumpists who want to work in the administration, so to a greater or lesser extent, they’re all under the...
I’d called a crusade against my enemy.On the site of my ordeal, no sculptureremembers me. Where my body flared likea window, then smoldered like stone, ivy flickers. Fine then, go to the cathedral.It lies a quarter mile away. The glassof...
The debate over Proust’s relation to his Jewish identity ultimately turns not just on his personal attachments but on how he represents Jewish characters in his novel.
Nick Witham's Popularizing the Past portrays five American historians who published popular books that sacrificed neither intellectual depth nor political bite.
Last night I woke to the moonlit field striped with zigzag bars of shadow like a destroyer’s flanks, althoughit was a hunchback scream that called, a limping clamor, on and on, to which the bole of a broken apple tree turned...
Stand before Vincent Valdez’s paintings The City I (2015–2016) and The City II (2016) and you will find that you’ve been transported to a bluff overlooking the twinkling grid of an American city at night. But this is no tranquil vista....
With absorbing footage of gutted apartment buildings and ravaged storefronts, Drop Dead City anatomizes the drama of New York's descent into near bankruptcy.
To the Editors: In his review of our Platonov translations [NYR, June 12], Michael Hofmann says much about himself but oddly little about the many sides of Platonov’s genius. It is unlikely that any reader of Hofmann’s review would...
To the Editors: Neal Ascherson’s review of Richard J. Evans’s Hitler’s People [NYR, March 27] references my book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. Ascherson says that according to Evans, later...
Most artists dislike the art world; Mike Kelley was no exception. The Detroit-born conceptual artist, who established his reputation in Los Angeles—where he lived until his death by suicide in 2012—had little patience for the dominant...
Mahmoud Khalil’s first court hearing was held in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday, March 12, a morning that teetered between sun and clouds. Friends, observers, and journalists had been lining up for hours outside the imposing Thurgood...
The Terrorism Confinement Center was designed to be a black hole. When Nayib Bukele’s flagship “megaprison”—known as CECOT, after its Spanish acronym—opened in January 2023 in a desolate stretch of Tecoluca, about forty-five miles from...
In our May 29, 2025, issue, Chris Ware takes a close look at Olivier Schrauwen’s graphic novel Sunday and the formal qualities that make comics uniquely suited to transmitting thought. Ware writes: “In what other medium could one...
With six conservatives on the nine-person court, Chief Justice John Roberts knows that another prudent defection on his part will not be enough to save Roe. But he might entice one of the conservative justices into supporting a less...