May 2021

To the Editors: I sincerely hope all those who have an interest in Alexander Griboedov and his play Woe from Wit will buy my translation and...

To the Editors: We were pleased to note the reference to Günter Demnig’s Stolperstein project in Joshua Hammer’s review of Alexander Wolff’s book Endpapers: A Family...

To the Editors: Readers of Leo Rubinfien’s recent essay on Japanese photobooks [“‘My Eyes Are Infamously Greedy,’” NYR, February 11] might appreciate knowing that although an...

To the Editors: It has been pointed out to me that I was mistaken when I wrote in my review of Vincent van Gogh: A Life...

Why, nearly six decades after his murder, do Americans still care so much about and, for the most part, continue to think so highly of John...

There is a scene in Eula Biss’s new book of essays, Having and Being Had, that makes me almost howl with recognition. Her son, “J,” begins...

Śathakopan of Kurukur likely lived in the ninth century of the Common Era. He certainly spent nearly all of his life in the far southern reaches...

How can one make sense of the alarming replication of malignant rulers in so many different countries over the past hundred years? Is it possible to...

“I like to make things,” the saxophonist and composer Julius Hemphill told an interviewer from the Smithsonian in 1994, a year before his death from diabetes....

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