The Jewish Authenticity Trap
The Holocaust has long loomed large in the American imagination, but in recent years it has come to seem ubiquitous, with Holocaust-related symbols and slogans infiltrating...
Total Recall
King Rao, the billionaire tech founder at the center of Vauhini Vara’s debut novel, The Immortal King Rao, is neither a king nor, strictly speaking, immortal....
Village People
It is not uncommon for a novel to try to convince its readers that they should care. It is far less common for a novel to...
Models for Being
When they were undergraduates at Berkeley in the 1990s, Hua Hsu’s friend Ken was murdered, randomly and wantonly, in a carjacking. That is the precipitating cause...
Pakistan Submerged
Some two thousand years ago, in 325 BC, after a string of conquests across the Indus plains, the forces of Alexander of Macedon mutinied on the...
Originalism’s Charade
The Supreme Court’s decision in June 2022 to overrule Roe v. Wade and erase the constitutional right to abortion was the culmination of a half-century-long campaign...
Clay Genius
In my cabinet I have a cream-colored soup plate, purchased in the early 1990s at an antique store in Greenwich Village. For me it was rather...
The Reactionary Court
To the Editors: Jed S. Rakoff’s fine review of Brad Snyder’s biography of Felix Frankfurter [NYR, November 3] is incorrect in one detail: the turn to...
The Real Christie Mystery
To the Editors: I am loath to argue with Lucy Worsley, whose work on television is very appealing, but have trouble believing that Agatha Christie was...
The Silence of Pius XII: An Exchange
To the Editors: Unfortunately, my new book The Pope and the Holocaust received a review in your pages [NYR, October 20] that rather reflects the bias...
