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Keeping Speech Robust and FreeThe libel lawsuit filed in March 2021 by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News, over the network’s coverage of claims that the company had...
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None-Too-Gay DivorcéesLord, I have been more chased than chaste.—Ursula Parrott, Ex-Wife Seemingly out of nowhere, precociously aphoristic and coolly unsentimental, the...
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The Republic of Translation“There is a big secret about sex,” wrote Leo Bersani in 1987. “Most people don’t like it.” The same might be said of translation, which many...
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At PutneyPink scud clouds over the bridges, Vauxhall, Lambeth, Battersea, spider-work. Black. The...
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Robert Gottlieb (1931–2023)It is probably safe to say that until the early evening of June 14, readers of serious newspapers and intellectual journals such as this one were...
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‘Places That Weren’t Supposed to Be Places’There are ruptures so great that they function as markers of time. “We would say: ‘the year of the great earthquake,’ or: ‘the year of the...
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How to FoldSeated alone at the edge of the bedgrasp the finest fabric first, the shrunken sock or silk softest to touchamong laundry high & hot enough to...
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On Planes and BoatsShortly after closing the June 22 issue of the Review, I flew to LA to chip away at a book deadline. I stayed in Silver Lake, near Historic...
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Black Talk on the MoveJames Weldon Johnson was critical of dialect because it had only two stops: pathos and humor. Mark Twain may have listened to how the black people...
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A Sort of Buzzing Inside My Head“Please write me a sonnet on the subject of the Forth Bridge.” This was apparently the first question that occurred to the English mathematician...
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Queens of the ScreenFor decades the zany underground comedies of the Gay Girls Riding Club were all but lost to history. Formed in the late 1950s and lasting until...
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Who Swims with the Scientist?“Defining wildness is not an easy task,” writes David Quammen in an essay we published online last month, but at the least it “requires living...
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The Land of Dust and PlasticIn 1956 Juan Goytisolo, one of Spain’s most influential contemporary writers, took a bus to the eastern part of Almería, a province in Andalusia....
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Look Up!Berenice Abbott was “the Tulloch-Turnbull girl with her coldblood Kodak” to James Joyce, “Berry” to her ex-roommate Djuna Barnes, a “spry old...
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‘To Leave This World’No one would call Paul Schrader an especially funny filmmaker, but he has made at least one truly hilarious movie: his contribution to Venice 70:...
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In the Cave of the RebelIn the fall of 2021, as military forces from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) swept south toward Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, they...
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The View from the Back SeatWe’ve been viewing the world from inside vehicles for more than a century. It’s no surprise, then, that people have been making films set inside...
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Subjects and ConcordsGoogle is effectively one large index, at least according to Fara Dabhoiwala, who reviews a history of the index in the June 22, 2023, issue. And...
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The Long War on Black StudiesWe fell under the leadership of those who would compromise with truth in the past in order to make peace in the present and guide policy in the...
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Lonely at the TopWhen Alejandro González Iñárritu’s most recent film premiered last fall, he made a point of calling it not an autobiography but an “emography,” a...
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Lope Lives!The plays of Spain’s preeminent Golden Age dramatist, Lope de Vega, come across on the page as compressed and quick off the mark, agile in...
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The Ultimate DealSecrets are a kind of currency. They can be hoarded, but if kept for too long they lose their value. Like all currencies, they must, sooner or...
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Dancing QueenFor over three decades Joan Acocella has written about dance and literature for The New York Review of Books. In a two-part piece published...
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She Said, She SaidThe poster for Prima Facie, a one-woman play by Suzie Miller, shows two faces of the actress Jodie Comer. In one she is placid and wearing a...
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‘A Can of Gasoline Under Indian Law’Four years ago Lisa Blatt argued a case before the Supreme Court called Carpenter v. Murphy. It rested on whether a citizen of the Muscogee...
