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
How Top Boys topple down crime’s ladder
Too many prisoners rejoin society with no education, stable housing or job prospects. No surprise that more than half reoffend within a year
In the bleak midwinter
Christmas can be a bleak time of year. While some feel isolated, others are overwhelmed by the need for a perfect family Yuletide when their reality is different
My warnings to our spy watchdogs
Britain is under attack from Russia. And the government is blocking a Parliamentary report that details it