New York
William Meyers: Civics
At a time when partisan feelings are strong, William Meyers’s “Civics” project steps back to look at the problems of common concern
Seven New Poems
New poetry by Amy Barone
Empty Seats At The Met
Peter Gelb cannot fill New York’s opera house. Can it be saved from terminal decline?
New York Survival Story
How the New York Public Library weathered a near-death experience
Close Encounters
Catcalling isn’t so bad — until it crosses the line
The Little Prince Of Queens
Joseph Cornell’s shadow boxes are poetic windows on the mind of a man with a restricted life
Irving Kristol on Jews and Judaism
Gertrude Himmelfarb on her husband
Drawing Board: New York Mid-Century
Memorial to a metropolis
Pynchon’s 9/11: Things Fall Apart
Thomas Pynchon’s new novel displays all the bravura imagination of the rest of his oeuvre, but sees the elusive writer finally coming to terms with the world
Painter of the Strenuous Life
Where Edward Hopper found isolation, George Bellows heard the hubbub of modern America
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts