March 2021

To the Editors: I enjoyed Tim Flannery’s review of The Genesis Quest by Michael Marshall [NYR, December 3, 2020], but find his concluding comments in one...

To the Editors: I very much enjoyed Stephen Greenblatt’s authoritative review of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet [NYR, January 14]. However, I was surprised that Greenblatt did...

for Ötzi Pulling the arrow’s shaft   ·   from his own shoulder   ·   on the east ridge with   ·   and an axe of solid copper and   ·   ibex meat undigested   ·   conifer pollen, so late spring   ·   bearskin snowshoes   ·   a...

Family blessings are a curse, or they can be. If you’re the grandson of an American president as well as the great-grandson of a Founding Father...

Why do I feel so bad all the time is the question asked by so many young people today. In order to sneak a bite-size amount...

A few weeks before the publication in early February of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends, Nicole Perlroth’s disquieting account of the global...