The Toll of the Clock
Time is impassive, more animal than human. Time would not care if you fell out of it. It would continue on without you. It cannot see...
A Document of Losses
“You cannot destroy the forest without spilling blood,” observes a baobab tree near the start of Véronique Tadjo’s In the Company of Men. For centuries this...
Compliments Guys Can Give Girls That Aren’t Too Forward
As women, one of the most annoying things we deal with is catcallers. Can we get an amen? Why on earth would we ever respond to someone...
Compliments Guys Can Give Girls That Aren’t Too Forward
As women, one of the most annoying things we deal with is catcallers. Can we get an amen? Why on earth would we ever respond to someone...
The Mystical Realist
In the 2018 Winter Olympics, Norway wiped the snow with its competition, racking up thirty-nine medals—the most of any nation. (Germany, which has a population sixteen...
A Younger Robert Penn Warren
To the Editors: Fintan O’Toole in his review of Louis Menand’s The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War [NYR, July 22] makes some...
Who’s Afraid of Edmund Spenser?
To the Editors: There is a list in Catherine Nicholson’s article on Edmund Spenser [“The Triumph of Mutabilitie,” NYR, July 1] of writers who found The...
What’s it Worth?
To the Editors: In his cogent and timely review of Howard Steven Friedman’s Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life [NYR, June 10], Cass R....
Michael Ratner’s Tragedy, and Ours
Shortly after September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush announced a new policy required by a new kind of war. Alleged al-Qaeda terrorists would be tried...
On the Trail Blazed by W.E.B. Du Bois
The New York Review’s August 19, 2021 issue features “The Color Line,” Annette Gordon-Reed’s review of three books focusing on the achievement of the Black scholar,...
