Books, Arts, and Culture

“What big teeth you have! All the better to eat you with. The girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody’s meat.” When I read...

Audiobook read by Ray Porter. Out of the embers, a lawless new empire will rise… The first book in New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury...

Southern charm meets nostalgic horror in this supernatural tale about a close-knit women’s book club set in a small Charleston suburb in the 1990s. After a...

Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by “Everyone has received at least one and now...

Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from the likes of our own Mark O’Connell, Emily Gould, Mark Doty, Joanna Hershon, Paulette Jiles, and more—that are...

The latest edition of our brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Dan Chiasson in Wellesley, and more....

When people express concern about the consequences of pandemic politics for democracy, they are thinking of a fairly familiar, and limited, repertoire of activities—voting, primaries, conventions,...

For those not clued into conservative grievance culture, the behavior of Devin Nunes and his Republican colleagues during the impeachment hearings in the House struck an...

To the Editors: Alan Ryan argues that when society makes compromises as various people seek rights (e.g., a gay couple trying to buy a wedding cake...

What if the finest, funniest, craziest, sanest, most cheerfully depressing Korean-American novel was also one of the first? Practically everything about Younghill Kang’s brash modernist comic...