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Ibsen’s Broken Homes
Martin FillerStephanie Berger/Brooklyn Academy of MusicJohn Turturro as the architect Halvard Solness and Kelly Hutchinson as his secretary in Ibsen's The Master BuilderThe fact that many architects...
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Time Regained!
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Catalonia, Spain © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2013Salvador Dalí: The Sense of Speed, 1931A pregnant moment...
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The Unanswerable Question
Alberto ManguelEdward Gorey Charitable Trust One day in 1842, the thirty-eight-year old Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in his notebook: “To write a dream, which shall resemble the real course of a dream,...
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Simone Weil
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) contributed over fifty reviews, articles, and letters to The New York Review between 1963 and 2002. The following is an extract from her review of Simone Weil’s Selected...
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Obama's Long Road to Peace
David ColeMario Tama/Getty ImagesUS Marines, Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan, January 22, 2002President Barack Obama’s speech Thursday at the National Defense University (NDU) may turn out to be the most...
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Stay Out of Syria!
After the troubling revelations of the May 8 Senate hearing on Benghazi, much remains unclear about the attack that killed four Americans last September. Were the killers aiming to prove the...
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"And Now a Word from Our Sponsors"
Zach MaherGetting started can be difficult. When your name draws a blank, it’s unlikely that anyone will buy what you’re selling. Luckily, the attention that worthy unknowns need in order to get...
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Playing Moscow's Game
Amy KnightMladen Antonov/ReutersUS Secretary of State John Kerry in Moscow's Red Square, May 7, 2013As usual, the Russian government is playing a tough game with the US and its Western allies over...
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Chavismo: The Crack Up?
Alma GuillermoprietoCorbis/Reuters/Miraflores PalaceFormer Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez (right) with television presenter Mario Silva on the set of "La Hojilla" in Caracas, November 24,...
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Wagner and the Jews
Perhaps no other composer in history sought to combine such obviously incompatible elements in his works. The qualities that make Richard Wagner’s supporters so enthusiastic are often the same ones...
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Guatemala: Will Justice Be Done?
Bettmann/CorbisEfraín Ríos Montt, center, at the time of his military coup in Guatemala, March 1982On May 20, in a 3–2 decision, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala, the country’s highest tribunal,...
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The Ashes of Hollywood
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) contributed nearly one hundred reviews, articles, and letters to The New York Review between 1963 and 2006. The following is an extract from his two-part article “The Ashes of...
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Looking It in the Face
Charles SimicGrandville Of course, I never really believed it would happen. Grow old, I mean. I knew it was coming, saw the evidence of it in my friends and relatives, but despite that, I acted as if...
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Sylvia Plath: Rage and Laughter
April BernardLandshoff/Mademoiselle/Condé NastSylvia Plath on her first day at Mademoiselle, 1953In his idiosyncratic variation on the vampire story, The Sacred Fount, Henry James proposed that every...
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Faking It in China
Ian JohnsonLiu Jiaqi/Xinhua Press/CorbisGondoliers in "Florence Town," Tianjin, China, June 2011One of the most striking features about daily life in China is how much of what one encounters has been...
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Cool, Yet Warm
Nancy CramptonJanet Malcolm, New York City, 1981In “Good Pictures,” an essay about Diane Arbus in Forty-One False Starts, Janet Malcolm’s latest collection, we witness a wonderful outburst of...
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Roberto Bolaño's Devotion
Roberto Bolaño Toward the end of 1992 he was very sickand had separated from his wife.That was the goddamn truth:he was alone and fuckedand he tended to think there was little time left.But dreams,...
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Berkeley: What We Didn't Know
Ted Streshinsky/CorbisClark Kerr and Ronald Reagan leaving the meeting of the University of California’s board of regents at which Kerr was fired from his position as president of the university at...
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The Visionary Detective
What shall we be,When we aren’t what we are?—He Died with His Eyes OpenMinimalism in fiction is rarely conjoined with outbursts of passionate lyricism, and still more rarely do novels about crime and...
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Syria: Inventing a Religious War
Toby MatthiesenShawn Baldwin/CorbisPosters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, and Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah at the Sayyida Zainab shrine,...
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