The Bloodhound
Nicholson Baker’s latest book, Baseless, is stuffed with examples of just how inventive we humans can get when devising ways to harm one another. Most of...
The Reader of Rocks
In 1815 William Smith published the first detailed geological map of an entire country. Its scope was ambitious, as his long, practical-poetic title suggests: A Delineation...
A Vermeer for the IRA
In an essay first published by The New Yorker in 1995, Lawrence Weschler described an exchange with Antonio Cassese, the presiding judge at the Yugoslav War...
Characters in Search of a Conflict
“It’s not true at all,” we hear in Luigi Pirandello’s story “Romulus,” “that men come together to offer each other comfort and assistance. They come together...
Phantasms of the Opera
The movie Gaslight (1944) tells the story of an opera singer, played by Ingrid Bergman, who wonders if she is going insane as the lights in...
Black art is front and center this Black History Month
For centuries, Black artists have used their crafts to share their lived experiences with the world. Art as self-expression is not a new concept, but how...
Celebrate Black creative visions with Chrome
This Black History Month, the Chrome team is showcasing exciting new work by Black artists in a collection of themes that let you customize the look...
Democracy’s Genuine Crisis
To the Editors: Jackson Lears’s review of Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum [“Orthodoxy of the Elites,” NYR, January 14] fails the first rule of book...
The Real Problems with 1970s Psychology
To the Editors: In Gavin Francis’s thoughtful account of two books on the history of psychiatry [“Changing Psychiatry’s Mind,” NYR, January 14], I was surprised to...
Alex McElroy Is Not Going to Make You Read “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
In our series “Can Writing Be Taught?” we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the process of teaching writing. This...
