Should We Reform the Court?
The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States had an image problem from the moment President Biden established it last April, fulfilling a...
His Nemesis Was Stupidity
Last year was the two hundredth anniversary of Charles Baudelaire’s birth. We now have new translations of his poetry and prose, and a reissue of the...
A Hero Of His Time?
To the Editors: I write in response to Gary Saul Morson’s egregious misrepresentations in his review of my biography of Boris Savinkov [“Falling in Love with...
The Constitution & the Slave Trade
To the Editors: In his review of Woody Holton’s Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution [NYR, January 13], Sean Wilentz presents an...
Why Didn’t We Notice the Man Convicted of Alice Sebold’s Rape Was Innocent?
In 1982, Alice Sebold, an 18-year-old freshman at Syracuse University, was brutally attacked during an evening walk in Thornden Park. Though Sebold reported the crime to...
My Trump-Loving Family is Ruining My Relationship
The novel Groundskeeping takes places in the months around the 2016 presidential election. Aspiring writer Owen Callahan moves back home to live with his Trump-supporting uncle...
How Do The Themes Of Exile And Dispossession Feature In Mahmoud Darwish’s Poetry?
Mahmoud Darwish is one of the most spectacular poets who encapsulates the experiences of Palestinians. His poems often trace themes of homelessness, exile, freedom, and the...
What Adaptations of “Little Red Riding Hood” Tell Us About the Lasting Power of Fairytales
We forget a lot of things as human beings. And with the passage of time, memory tends to fade and fade until it disappears all together....
The Interrupted Literary Career of Friedo Lampe and the Underpinnings of the Nazi Obsession With Books and Literature
On May 1, 1945, six days before the Nazis would surrender to Allied forces, Friedo Lampe found himself six miles outside of Berlin, in the way...
Why I Love Reading Memoirs By Poets
I make my living as an editor. This means that grammar rules…well…rule my life. The literal definition of my job is to find and fix incorrect...
