We’ve all heard the chestnut about “not letting a crisis go to waste,” but there’s no crisis here, just a multibillion-dollar ...

Jean Strouse’s brisk, wise “Family Romance” takes on the painter’s relationship to the Wertheimers, a vast Jewish clan he immortalized on canvas.

In her life and work, she moved through the world with a disarming blend of youthful curiosity and daring intelligence.

The Biblical Book of Job chronicles a string of catastrophes relentlessly plaguing the main character, Job, who loses his ...

Shortly after Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, a raft of self-help books and articles appeared, written by students of post-Soviet society. Drawing on lessons gleaned from Vladimir Putin’s ...

Germany's business elite thought they could control the demagogue. Steve Schwarzman and Peter Thiel think that now ...

Patrick Iber on the fascism debate for Dissent magazine. Loubna El Amine on Israel’s attacks on Lebanon for The New York Review of Books. Nesrine Malik on the Palestinian journalist Wael al ...

Browning on Hitler’s enablers for The New York Review of Books. Deborah Friedell on ... was the chief political correspondent for Slate magazine. He is based in Charlottesville, Va., ...

A fortnightly magazine on literature, culture and current affairs written in the US, The New York Review of Books is founded on the belief that discussion of books is an important literary principle.

NYRB's edition brought the unabridged saga to anglophone readers for the first time, in a masterful translation by Jenny McPhee, and introduced Morante—still criminally underappreciated in the U ...

By Alex Vadukul At a time when print media is on the way out and streaming technology has slashed into box office returns, a band of downtown cinephiles in New York has started a film magazine.