Agatha Christie’s Nightmares
Lucy Worsley is a popular British historian and the chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces. She is interested in women’s lives, the national obsession with murder,...
‘Write It Again’
As some of you may know, Joan was an eccentric. Or perhaps it is more judicious to say that she was set in her ways, ways...
His Dreaminess Had Will
At heart he was an archivist, and what he archived was his life. Within his hermetic realm he was utterly logical and everything he did made...
The Long Reach of the Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses was published more than thirty years ago, but the attack in August on Salman Rushdie, the novel’s author, is a grim reminder that...
The Struggle Over Verdi
The Parma Verdi Festival, dedicated to Italy’s greatest opera composer, opened Thursday night with one of his strangest and most disturbing operas, La Forza del Destino...
“Ever Freer to Speak My Mind”
“The theocratic movement to advance religiously based governance—the antithesis of genuine religious freedom—has installed as the law of the land the essentially unreasoned position advanced in...
Godard’s Women
It must have been in the spring of 2018, because that was the last time I was in Paris. I had been invited to give a...
On the Downbeat
“Day one post balloons.” That is how Joan inscribed her book After Henry, which she gave me the day after the balloons dropped and the Democrats finished...
A Child Is Being Aborted
My partner and I tried for a baby before our now ten-month-old daughter was born—a situation utterly different from the accidental conception of my eighteen-year-old son,...
The Divining Process
Welcome to The New York Review of Books’s inaugural art newsletter, which will appear periodically and focus on the art—illustrations, spots, caricatures, photographs, and more—in the...
