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Vicente L. Rafael on how a massacre in the Philippines faded from ...

2025-10-08T14:32:04Z

Vicente L. Rafael on how a massacre in the Philippines faded from American history https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/10/23/massacre-under-the-starry-flag-moro-massacre-philippines/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-10-08_Rafael-MoroMassacre-1

Eric Foner on when the underground railroad took to the sea ...

2025-10-02T15:24:01Z

Eric Foner on when the underground railroad took to the sea https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/10/23/the-underground-railroads-stealth-sailors-freedom-ship-rediker/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-10-02_Foner-EscapingSlavery-1

“The members of the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project ...

2025-09-27T15:33:01Z

“The members of the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project demolish many of the myths surrounding the institution, proving that its founders…were far more abusive than conventional accounts suggest.” —Scott W. Stern https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/10/09/writing-their-prisons-history-indiana-womens-prison/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-09-27_Stern-IndianaWomensPrison-2

“The question Where are you from? will cease to be suspicious ...

2025-09-16T12:48:01Z

“The question Where are you from? will cease to be suspicious only when the question Where are you going? is asked just as often.” —Ilija Trojanow https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/09/10/after-flight/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-09-15_Trojanow-AfterFlight-2

Martin Filler on the golden age of department stores ...

2025-09-13T11:56:00Z

Martin Filler on the golden age of department stores https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/09/25/what-joys-lie-in-store-american-fashion-department-stores/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-09-13_Filler-DepartmentStores-1

“In a lily-white sport…Althea Gibson, a Black woman, was a ...

2025-09-07T11:09:00Z

“In a lily-white sport…Althea Gibson, a Black woman, was a whirlwind of energy and determination, shattering the color barrier at one marquee event after the next.” —Sasha Abramsky https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/09/25/ahead-of-the-game-althea-gibson/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-09-07_Abramsky-AltheaGibson-2

“Everyday language can actually convey cutting-edge physics ...

2025-08-19T18:41:00Z

“Everyday language can actually convey cutting-edge physics concepts very well, if only we can let go of the everyday connotations that some terms carry with them.” —an interview with Sean M. Carroll https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/08/16/far-out-sean-carroll-big-bang/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-08-19_Carroll-BE-2

A new exhibition pays “frank attention to the financial ...

2025-08-19T15:22:08Z

A new exhibition pays “frank attention to the financial incentives that motivated the operators of ocean liners, railroads, and airlines to...use oysters, beef Wellington, kale salad, and martinis to edge out the competition.” —Lora Kelley https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/08/03/a-moment-of-pleasant-indecision/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-08-19_Kelley-TransitDining-3

In 1978, an English librarian discovered “two strips of ...

2025-08-15T13:21:03Z

In 1978, an English librarian discovered “two strips of paper” which “proved to be fragments of an old letter. There was no clue as to who had written it,” Charles Nicholl writes, save for the name of its recipient: “Good Mrs. Shakspaire.” https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/08/05/who-is-mrs-shakspaire-what-is-she-anne-shakespeare/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-08-15_Nicholl-Hathaway-2

Among the notorious Mitford sisters, “fascism was less an ...

2025-08-10T12:57:00Z

Among the notorious Mitford sisters, “fascism was less an ideological belief than a catastrophic assertion of personality, a bid for attention in a family of extremophiles.” —Frances Wilson https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/08/21/tremendous-stickers-outrageous-mitford-sisters/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-08-10_Wilson-Mitfords-2

“Veronese was always the most industrious of painters, his ...

2025-08-08T13:57:01Z

“Veronese was always the most industrious of painters, his focus never flagging from the center of a canvas right out to its corners…. His work demands an equal intensity of concentration from his viewers.” —Ingrid D. Rowland https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/08/21/the-gentleman-of-verona-paolo-veronese/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-08-08_Rowland-Veronese-2

David S. Reynolds on a new history of slavery, slaveholders, and ...

2025-08-04T13:58:01Z

David S. Reynolds on a new history of slavery, slaveholders, and enslaved people during the American Revolution https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/08/21/the-contradictory-revolution-american-inheritance-larson/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-08-04_Reynolds-Larson-1

“Somehow, it exemplifies IP accretion while also telling a ...

2025-07-26T10:52:00Z

“Somehow, it exemplifies IP accretion while also telling a stylish, surprising, moving story about oppression, radicalization, violent resistance, and, in its second season, genocide.” —Gabriel Winslow-Yost on Andor https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/07/24/the-revolution-will-not-be-star-wars/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-07-26_Winslow-Yost-Andor-2

Charlie Dulik on the past and future of tenant organizing ...

2025-07-22T17:52:00Z

Charlie Dulik on the past and future of tenant organizing https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/07/22/the-long-fight-for-tenant-power/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-07-22_Dulik-Tenants-1

Xi Jinping’s father had been purged for “help[ing] the ...

2025-07-22T16:10:03Z

Xi Jinping’s father had been purged for “help[ing] the daughter of an old friend who was writing a sensitive novel,” Ian Johnson writes. “Perhaps his son [Xi Jinping] has decided that these were mistakes and to pursue instead much more focused and ruthless policies.” https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/07/24/lessons-of-the-father-xi-zhongxun-hu-yaobang/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-07-22_Johnson-XiZhongxun-3

“Muslims in the US are among the most culturally, ethnically, ...

2025-07-20T13:10:14Z

“Muslims in the US are among the most culturally, ethnically, and racially diverse in the world,” writes Aida Alami. The American imams who lead them “serve a community that [has] arguably never needed them more.” https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/07/15/the-new-imams/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-07-20_Alami-TrainingClerics-2

“The simplicity of Sheila Heti’s prose effaces much of its ...

2025-07-14T15:10:22Z

“The simplicity of Sheila Heti’s prose effaces much of its craft in a similar way, and this illusion of effortlessness is a major source of its pleasure: it makes us feel as though we could capture the world as easily.” —Lola Seaton https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/07/24/incorrigible-nudity-alphabetical-diaries-sheila-heti/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-07-14_Seaton-Heti-3

“Merely restoring public health funding as it existed before ...

2025-07-14T10:45:18Z

“Merely restoring public health funding as it existed before Trump is not enough…. Federal public health agencies, including the CDC and NIOSH, should not just be reestablished but expanded.” —Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/07/08/the-dismantling-of-american-health-care/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-07-10_Gaffney-Health-Care-2

“AIs don’t ‘write’ essays or anything else—the use of ...

2025-07-12T14:53:15Z

“AIs don’t ‘write’ essays or anything else—the use of that verb shows how easily we anthropomorphize,” James Gleick writes. “As plagiarists, they obscure and randomize their sources but do not transcend them.” https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/07/24/the-parrot-in-the-machine-the-ai-con-bender-hanna/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-07-12_Gleick-AI-3

Joyce Carol Oates on the literally toxic origins of serial ...

2025-07-04T11:56:11Z

Joyce Carol Oates on the literally toxic origins of serial killers https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/07/24/death-in-the-air-murderland-fraser-oates/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-07-04_Oates-Fraser-1

David Shulman on the second Nakba, now in full gear in the West ...

2025-07-03T15:52:13Z

David Shulman on the second Nakba, now in full gear in the West Bank https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/07/24/netanyahus-war-david-shulman/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-07-03_Shulman-WestBankJune2025-1

“The simple willingness to be dishonorable destabilizes ...

2025-06-13T15:05:07Z

“The simple willingness to be dishonorable destabilizes everything American power affects, instilling anxiety on every side…. Instability, shrewdly managed, is a great multiplier of power.” —Marilynne Robinson https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/06/26/notes-from-an-occupation-marilynne-robinson/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-06-13_Robinson-democracy-3

Ursula Lindsey on Mohamed Choukri’s hardscrabble life in the ...

2025-06-09T15:18:21Z

Ursula Lindsey on Mohamed Choukri’s hardscrabble life in the margins of Tangier https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/06/01/the-roots-of-bukeles-gulag/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-06-09_Washington-CECOT-3

Marilynne Robinson on a homegrown occupation ...

2025-06-05T13:10:13Z

Marilynne Robinson on a homegrown occupation https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/06/26/notes-from-an-occupation-marilynne-robinson/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-06-05_Robinson-democracy-1

“The very idea of a free university,” writes David Cole, ...

2025-04-23T13:12:23Z

“The very idea of a free university,” writes David Cole, “cannot coexist with the ideological micromanagement Trump sought to impose.” https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/04/19/why-harvard-defied-him/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-04-23_Cole-Harvard-3

The New York Review of Books is proud to join Mastodon today to ...

2025-04-03T19:17:32Z

The New York Review of Books is proud to join Mastodon today to bring you essays and reviews about literature, politics, art, history, philosophy, science, society, and culture. In fact, our April 24 issue is now online, with Fintan O’Toole on Trump’s destructive European policy, Vivian Gornick on City College, Erin Maglaque on sex with Christians, Merve Emre on Tom Wolfe, Peter Singer on morality, Omer Bartov on Israel’s genocide, and much more.
https://www.nybooks.com/issues/2025/04/24/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-04-03_04-24-25-Spring-Books-issue-reveal