“Is the monarchy a suitable institution for a grown-up nation?” asked Hilary Mantel in “Royal Bodies,” an incendiary 2013 essay for the London Review of Books. “We are happy to allow mo...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/27/kate-middleton-two-bodies/
Moira Donegan joins us from Stanford University, where she is a writer in residence at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Although Moira and I have corresponded about feminism and feminis...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/26/a-gender-emergency-moira-donegan/
My oldest friends, Tal and Nate, lived in Clinton Hill for fifteen years. When they moved there in 2005, virtually everyone around them rented; only a few families seemed to have very high income...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/26/musical-chairs-nyc-housing/
An empty stretch of road hemmed in by high cement walls. The level tarmac shines with dew. A muezzin is heard over traffic. Signs point toward Rachel’s Tomb and Jerusalem. Soon a whirring noise...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/24/saint-josef-koudelka/
Judging from the architectural plans that the Border Patrol presented to Congress in 2009, the I-19 Border Patrol Checkpoint was supposed to be enormous. It was to be built in Tubac, Arizona, som...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/23/checkpoint-dreams-arizona-border/
In February Jérôme Tubiana and Joshua Craze wrote a report for the NYR Online about a series of massacres in Darfur, Sudan, where Arab forces are attacking the non-Arab Masalit community as...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/23/tell-it-as-it-is-jerome-tubiana/
On October 13, 1966, the artist Marta Minujín invited sixty Argentine celebrities to a large room, ushered them to seats that were each equipped with a television set and a radio, and filmed and...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/21/wallow-around-and-live-minujin/
A dispatch from the Art Editor
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/20/unfamiliar-colors-leanne-shapton/
The painter Charles Burchfield kept a journal for most of his life, from 1909, when he was sixteen, to 1966, a year before his death. He filled some ten thousand pages—seventy-two notebooks con...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/19/an-orchard-for-a-dome-charles-burchfield/
In our April 4 issue, Daphne Merkin immerses herself in My Name Is Barbra, Barbra Streisand’s “970-page, indexless brick of a memoir.” From this feat of self-mythologizing emerges “an ex...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/16/consider-diva-daphne-merkin/
In 1983, when Argentina held its first presidential election after seven years of military dictatorship, Raúl Alfonsín won with an optimistic slogan: “With democracy one eats, one is educated...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/15/argentina-into-the-abyss/
I am delighted to have Anahid Nersessian as my guest, not least because she’s a good friend. Anahid is a professor of English at UCLA. I have been reading her work for a long time, and I think ...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/12/the-channeler-anahid-nersessian/
Few pieces of federal legislation merit as much and receive as little attention as the Farm Bill.1 Most people who slog through this five-hundred-page-document are stunned by its breadth and comp...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/10/eyes-on-the-farm-bill/
“You can write down all the equations of fluid dynamics and still be surprised by a tornado.”
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/09/your-fancy-pants-brain-james-gleick/
On February 16 Alabama’s supreme court ruled that fertilized, unimplanted embryos created using in vitro fertilization (IVF) are children under state law. The three couples at the center of the...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/08/life-and-death-in-alabama-ivf/
I have often wished that I could access at least one of the many police files that have undoubtedly been compiled about me since September 11, 1973, the day a military junta toppled Salvador Alle...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/07/my-secret-police-files/
In one of the Supreme Court’s most sweeping rulings in modern times, a five-man majority has effectively nullified a critical provision of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the Un...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/06/the-constitution-turned-upside-down/
In the city of Rafah, at the southern edge of Gaza, people are consumed by terror and dread. Over the course of nearly five months, IDF airstrikes have funneled over half of the Strip’s populat...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/02/unilateral-actions-gaza-rafah/
In our February 22 issue, Robyn Creswell writes about one of the most fabled episodes in Arab history in his review of Eric Calderwood’s On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus. Al-A...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/02/a-permanent-elegy-creswell/
The earliest work in Guardian, an exhibition at Tara Downs of seven paintings by Budd Hopkins, is a small abstract tondo, a circular canvas with tracks of off-white paint rising from the surface ...
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/01/out-there-budd-hopkins-art-ufos/