Fiametta Rocco, Five Books: 'It’s the story of Oleg Gordievsky, who was probably the...
The most famous first line in 20th-century American literature set in Kings County, New York, must be incomprehensible to many current... Read More
Invariably when discussing religion and politics, separationists invoke the specter of “religious war” as their... Read More
Impresario Max Glücksmann wanted his new theater, the Teatro Gran Splendid, to remind people of the Paris Opera. He had it built in 1919... Read More
The Patch, by John McPhee (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 256 pp., $26)John McPhee wrote his first essay for The New Yorker in 1963 and... Read More
The band of mercenary soldiers had been on the move through hostile territory for several months when they were told they had enlisted under... Read More
What books do we reach for when we know that we soon will die? And do we read to prepare ourselves for death, as the ancient Egyptians did... Read More
Richard Wrangham embraces controversy, and appears to enjoy munching apples from carts he upsets himself. While his new book seems to be the... Read More
Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of the New York Times and now a Harvard professor, is widely regarded as a heavyweight... Read More
Last year was a wild one for the oil industry. Between January and October, oil prices rose to almost $80 per barrel — a 25... Read More
Yesterday I critiqued Jonathan Gienapp's new book, The Second Creation, in which he makes an innovative criticism of an old variety:... Read More
One of the ways in which the current President of the United States differs from all his predecessors, from George Washington to Barack... Read More
In the 2017–18 theater season, 63 percent of the 13.8 million tickets sold to performances of Broadway shows were bought by tourists... Read More
Fiametta Rocco, Five Books: 'It’s the story of Oleg Gordievsky, who was probably the...
Here are the stories of men and women who build things, walk across continents, play video games, study ice and fire, build trans-continental highways, engineer software and bridges; stories of insects, plants, biophysics, dinosaurs, time, reality, artificial intelligence, energy. Dig in. Read More
No American intellectual shaped the terms of post-1960s cultural criticism quite like Christopher Lasch. Heir to a dominant liberalism that promised all things to all peoples, he struck instead a pessimistic pose denouncing the noxious alchemy of capitalism, consumption, and the growing authority of the “therapeutic professions.” The subtitle of his surprising 1979 bestseller, The Culture of N Read More
Mere days before the Declaration of Independence was signed in July 1776, 20,000 spectators gathered in a field where Manhattan's modern-day Chinatown lies. All together, soldiers and citizens alike, they amassed the largest crowd to watch a public execution in the colonies at the time. Two days earlier Thomas Hickey, a member of the elite guard responsible for protecting George Washington, was co Read More
