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Law & Disorder in Los Angeles

“This is a public, surveys have suggested, that believes crime to be the number-one domestic political issue, want strong law enforcement, and would not and often did not make much of a fuss about police brutality as long as it was kept out of sight, out of mind.”

October 10, 1991 issue

Edmund White

A Hungry Little Boy

“Pears had a special appeal for Balzac; he often kept bushels of them at home and could eat as many as forty or fifty in a day (one February he had 1,500 pears in his cellar).”

January 12, 2012 issue

William Dalrymple

Disappearing Christians

“The first thing that you notice about Taybeh as you drive in is that the village is full of churches: it is in fact one of the last villages around here still dominated by Palestinian Christians.”

September 25, 2003 issue

Susan Sontag

Fascinating Fascism

“Nazi art has always been thought of as reactionary, defiantly outside the century’s mainstream of achievement in the arts. But just for this reason it has been gaining a place in contemporary taste.”

February 6, 1975 issue

Larry McMurtry

Mad About the Book

“I once owned twenty years’ worth of the bound newsletters of a Fort Worth asphalt company whose sideline was industrial grease; I was mentally preparing myself to own those newsletters forever when the writer Annie Proulx came streaking through Archer City, pausing in her dusty journeying just long enough to be swept up by the drama of asphalt.”

December 20, 2001 issue

Zadie Smith

In Defense of Fiction

We have found fiction wanting in myriad ways but rarely paused to wonder, or recall, what we once wanted from it.

October 24, 2019 issue

David Graeber

Against Economics

The discipline is beginning to look like a science designed to solve problems that no longer exist.

December 5, 2019 issue

Joan Didion

In El Salvador

“Terror is the given of the place.”

November 4, 1982 issue

Classics from the Archive

Oliver Sacks

The Bull on the Mountain

June 28, 1984 issue

Zadie Smith

Speaking in Tongues

February 26, 2009 issue

J.M. Coetzee

The Marvels of Walter Benjamin

January 11, 2001 issue

Hilary Mantel

The Perils of Antoinette

January 11, 2007 issue

Joan Didion

Insider Baseball

October 27, 1988 issue

Alma Guillermoprieto

Fidel in the Evening

October 22, 1998 issue

John R. Searle (1932–2025)

Remembering John R. Searle

A selection of John R. Searle’s contributions to The New York Review. Read all of his essays here.

John R. Searle

Consciousness & the Philosophers

March 6, 1997 issue

John R. Searle

Consciousness: What We Still Don’t Know

January 13, 2005 issue

John R. Searle

End of the Revolution

February 28, 2002 issue

John R. Searle

What Your Computer Can’t Know

October 9, 2014 issue

John R. Searle

Why Should You Believe It?

September 24, 2009 issue

John R. Searle

The Storm Over the University

December 6, 1990 issue

Edmund White (1940–2025)

Remembering Edmund White

A selection of Edmund White’s contributions to The New York Review. Read all of his essays here.

Edmund White

A Hungry Little Boy

January 12, 2012 issue

Edmund White

Forster in Love: The Story

November 6, 2014 issue

Edmund White

I Do, I Do

August 14, 2014 issue

Edmund White

Is There a Good Way to Be Gay?

October 25, 2012 issue

Edmund White

Nabokov’s Passion

March 29, 1984 issue

Edmund White

Ecstatic Truth

June 28, 2018 issue

Edmund White

The House of Edith

April 26, 2007 issue

Edmund White

The High Wire of Jean Cocteau

November 24, 2016 issue

Edmund White

Proust the Passionate Reader

April 4, 2013 issue

Joan Didion (1934–2021)

Joan Didion

A selection of Joan Didion’s contributions to the New York Review. Read all of her pieces here.

Joan Didion

Letter from ‘Manhattan’

August 16, 1979 issue

Joan Didion

Discovery

October 11, 1984 issue

Joan Didion

Insider Baseball

October 27, 1988 issue

Joan Didion

New York: Sentimental Journeys

January 17, 1991 issue

Joan Didion

The Golden Land

October 21, 1993 issue

Joan Didion

Varieties of Madness

April 23, 1998 issue

Joan Didion

Fixed Opinions, or The Hinge of History

January 16, 2003 issue

Joan Didion

The Case of Theresa Schiavo

June 9, 2005 issue

Joan Didion

The Deferential Spirit

September 19, 1996 issue

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

Hannah Arendt

A selection of Hannah Arendt’s contributions to the New York Review. Read all of her essays here.

Hannah Arendt

Home to Roost: A Bicentennial Address

June 26, 1975 issue

Hannah Arendt

Lying in Politics: Reflections on The Pentagon Papers

November 18, 1971 issue

Hannah Arendt

A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence

February 27, 1969 issue

Hannah Arendt, translated from the German by Albert Hofstadter

Martin Heidegger at Eighty

October 21, 1971 issue

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt: An Interview

October 26, 1978 issue

Hannah Arendt

A Heroine of Revolution

October 6, 1966 issue

Larry McMurtry (1936–2021)

Larry McMurtry

A selection of Larry McMurtry’s contributions to the New York Review. Read all of his essays here.

Larry McMurtry

Sacagawea’s Nickname

September 20, 2001 issue

Larry McMurtry

Marilyn

March 10, 2011 issue

Larry McMurtry

Inventing the West

August 10, 2000 issue

Larry McMurtry

The Two Lives of General Grant

April 29, 2004 issue

Larry McMurtry

Mad About the Book

December 20, 2001 issue

Larry McMurtry

Broken Promises

October 23, 1997 issue

Larry McMurtry

The West Without Chili

October 22, 1998 issue

Larry McMurtry

Pulpmaster

November 2, 2000 issue

Larry McMurtry

Chopping Down the Sacred Tree

April 22, 1999 issue

Susan Sontag (1933–2004)

Susan Sontag

A selection of Susan Sontag’s contributions to the New York Review. Read all of her essays here.

Susan Sontag

Fascinating Fascism

February 6, 1975 issue

Susan Sontag

Illness as Metaphor

January 26, 1978 issue

Susan Sontag

Photography

October 18, 1973 issue

Susan Sontag

Godot Comes to Sarajevo

October 21, 1993 issue

Susan Sontag

Simone Weil

February 1, 1963 issue

Susan Sontag

Freak Show

November 15, 1973 issue

Umberto Eco (1932–2016)

Umberto Eco

A selection of Umberto Eco’s contributions to the New York Review. Read all of his essays here.

Umberto Eco

Ur-Fascism

June 22, 1995 issue

Umberto Eco

On ‘Krazy Kat’ and ‘Peanuts’

June 13, 1985 issue

Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver

A Case for Textual Harassment

June 9, 1994 issue

James Baldwin (1924–1987)

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

A Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis

January 7, 1971 issue

James Baldwin

God’s Country

March 23, 1967 issue

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007)

Elizabeth Hardwick

A selection of Elizabeth Hardwick’s contributions to the New York Review. Read all of her essays here.

Elizabeth Hardwick

On Sylvia Plath

May 23, 2013 issue

Elizabeth Hardwick

Caesar’s Things

September 24, 1970 issue

Elizabeth Hardwick

In Maine

October 7, 1971 issue

Elizabeth Hardwick

The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King

May 9, 1968 issue

Elizabeth Hardwick

Writing a Novel

October 18, 1973 issue

Elizabeth Hardwick

The Menendez Show

February 17, 1994 issue

Gore Vidal (1925–2012)

Gore Vidal

A selection of Gore Vidal’s contributions to the New York Review. Read all of his essays here.

Gore Vidal

American Plastic: The Matter of Fiction

July 15, 1976 issue

Gore Vidal

Lincoln Up Close

August 15, 1991 issue

Gore Vidal

On Rereading the Oz Books

October 13, 1977 issue

Gore Vidal

Scott’s Case

May 1, 1980 issue

Gore Vidal

An American Sissy

August 13, 1981 issue

Gore Vidal

Remembering Orson Welles

June 1, 1989 issue

Norman Mailer (1923–2007)

Norman Mailer

A selection of Norman Mailer’s contributions to the New York Review. Read all of his essays here.

Norman Mailer

A Man Half Full

December 17, 1998 issue

Norman Mailer

The Genius

November 2, 1972 issue

Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer: Letters on Writing

February 12, 2009 issue

Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

Mary McCarthy

A selection of Mary McCarthy’s contributions to the New York Review. Read all of her essays here.

Mary McCarthy

Report from Vietnam I. The Home Program

April 20, 1967 issue

Mary McCarthy

Report from Vietnam II: The Problems of Success

May 4, 1967 issue

Mary McCarthy

Report from Vietnam III: Intellectuals

May 18, 1967 issue

Mary McCarthy

Dejeuner sur l’Herbe

February 1, 1963 issue

Mary McCarthy

A Memory of James Baldwin

April 27, 1989 issue

Mary McCarthy

Acts of Love

June 25, 1981 issue

Derek Walcott (1930–2017)

Derek Walcott

A selection of Derek Walcott's contributions to the New York Review. Read all of his essays here.

Derek Walcott

Elsewhere

August 16, 1984 issue

Derek Walcott

Italian Eclogues

August 8, 1996 issue

Derek Walcott

The Trusted House

November 10, 2016 issue

Derek Walcott

A Letter to Chamoiseau

August 14, 1997 issue

Derek Walcott

The Master of the Ordinary

June 1, 1989 issue

Derek Walcott

Magic Industry

November 24, 1988 issue

Charles Simic (1938–2023)

Charles Simic

A selection of Charles Simic’s contributions to the New York Review. Read all of his essays here.

Charles Simic

Sticking to Our Guns

December 4, 2015

Charles Simic

Archives of Horror

May 1, 2003 issue

Charles Simic

My Fourth of July

July 3, 2012

Charles Simic

Strangers on a Train

May 18, 2010

Charles Simic

Confessions of a Poet Laureate

April 27, 2010

Charles Simic

The Disappearing Piano Bar

October 27, 2010

Hilary Mantel (1952–2022)

Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel

From ‘Wolf Hall’

July 17, 2008 issue

Hilary Mantel

The Perils of Antoinette

January 11, 2007 issue

Hilary Mantel

Not ‘Everybody’s Dear Jane’

February 5, 1998 issue

Hilary Mantel

The War Against Women

April 30, 2009 issue

Hilary Mantel

Revelations for the West

September 21, 2006 issue

Hilary Mantel

England, Whose England?

November 23, 1989 issue

Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997)

Isaiah Berlin

A selection of Isaiah Berlin’s contributions to the New York Review. Read all of his essays here.

Isaiah Berlin

A Message to the 21st Century

October 23, 2014 issue

Isaiah Berlin

Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism

September 27, 1990 issue

Isaiah Berlin

A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli

November 4, 1971 issue

Isaiah Berlin

Notes on Prejudice

October 18, 2001 issue

Isaiah Berlin

On Political Judgment

October 3, 1996 issue

Isaiah Berlin

The Arts in Russia Under Stalin

October 19, 2000 issue

Janet Malcolm (1934–2021)

Janet Malcolm

A selection of Janet Malcolm's contributions to the New York Review. Read all of her pieces here.

Janet Malcolm

A Second Chance

September 24, 2020 issue

Janet Malcolm

Good Pictures

January 15, 2004 issue

Janet Malcolm

The Master Writer of the City

April 23, 2015 issue

Janet Malcolm

The Trial of Alyosha

June 14, 1990 issue

Janet Malcolm

Truth About Translation

June 23, 2016 issue

Janet Malcolm

Justice to J.D. Salinger

June 21, 2001 issue

Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

Robert Lowell

A selection of Robert Lowell’s contributions to the New York Review. Read all of his essays here.

Robert Lowell

Waking Early Sunday Morning

August 5, 1965 issue

Robert Lowell

Robert Frost: 1875–1963

February 1, 1963 issue

Robert Lowell

Prometheus Bound derived from Aeschylus

July 13, 1967 issue

Lillian Hellman (1905–1984)

Lillian Hellman

A selection of Lillian Hellman's contributions to the New York Review. Read all of her essays here.

Lillian Hellman

Flipping for a Diamond

September 20, 1973 issue

Lillian Hellman

Scotch on the Rocks

October 17, 1963 issue

Lillian Hellman

Dashiell Hammett: A Memoir

November 25, 1965 issue

John Updike (1932–2009)

John Updike

A selection of John Updike’s contributions to the New York Review. Read all of his essays here.

John Updike

The Passion of Graham Greene

August 16, 1990 issue

John Updike

After Katrina

November 30, 2006 issue

John Updike

Hopper’s Polluted Silence

August 10, 1995 issue

Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014)

Nadine Gordimer

A selection of Nadine Gordimer's contributions to The New York Review. Read all of her essays here.

Nadine Gordimer

The Idea of Gardening

February 2, 1984 issue

Nadine Gordimer

Letter from South Africa

December 9, 1976 issue

Nadine Gordimer

The New Threat to Freedom in South Africa

May 24, 2012 issue

Harold Bloom (1930–2019)

Harold Bloom

A selection of Harold Bloom’s contributions to the New York Review. Read all of his essays here.

Harold Bloom

The Glories of Yiddish

November 6, 2008 issue

Harold Bloom

My Favorite Book in the Bible

July 28, 2011

Harold Bloom

Inescapable Poe

October 11, 1984 issue

Harold Bloom

Operation Roth

April 22, 1993 issue

Harold Bloom

Mr. America

November 22, 1984 issue

Harold Bloom

The Real Me

April 26, 1984 issue

Conor Cruise O’Brien (1917–2008)

Conor Cruise O’Brien

A selection of Conor Cruise O’Brien’s contributions to the New York Review. Read all of his essays here.

Conor Cruise O’Brien

Biafra Revisited

May 22, 1969 issue

Conor Cruise O’Brien

Camus, Algeria, and “The Fall”

October 9, 1969 issue

Conor Cruise O’Brien

A New Ireland?

October 7, 1993 issue

Issue 1 (February 1, 1963)

February 1, 1963

A selection from The New York Review’s inaugural issue. Read every essay from the issue here.

The Editors

To the Reader

February 1, 1963 issue

Mary McCarthy

Dejeuner sur l’Herbe

February 1, 1963 issue

Susan Sontag

Simone Weil

February 1, 1963 issue

F.W. Dupee

James Baldwin and the “Man”

February 1, 1963 issue

Dwight Macdonald

To the Whitehouse

February 1, 1963 issue

Robert Penn Warren

Lyrics from “Delight”

February 1, 1963 issue

Elizabeth Hardwick

Ring

February 1, 1963 issue

Adrienne Rich

Poetry

February 1, 1963 issue

W.H. Auden

Adam as a Welshman

February 1, 1963 issue

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