Getting His Way
To the Editors: Andrew Delbanco, in his review of David Mikics’s Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker [NYR, May 13], makes reference to several obsessions of Kubrick which...
Why Did We Invade Iraq?
Nearly two decades have passed since President George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in 2003, arguably the greatest strategic blunder in American history. It...
Cubicle Messiah
One morning a few years ago, as I entered the York Street subway station in Brooklyn, a friendly young woman handed me a promotional T-shirt from...
Why Did We Invade Iraq?
Nearly two decades have passed since President George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in 2003, arguably the greatest strategic blunder in American history. It...
Remember the Designers!
To the Editors: It was very encouraging to see a review of two important books dealing with opera scenography [Larry Wolff, “Phantasms of the Opera,” NYR,...
Ravenna Between East and West
“Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice,” Marco Polo says to Kublai Khan in Invisible Cities (1972), Italo Calvino’s reimagining of...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for July 1, 2021
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $1.99 Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West Get This Deal $1.99 Thirteen Doorways, Wolves...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for July 1, 2021
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $1.99 Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West Get This Deal $1.99 Thirteen Doorways, Wolves...
Rivka Galchen on the Particular Horrors of Actual Witch Hunts
Katharina Kepler is a witch, or so her neighbors think. She’s also the mother of brilliant Johannes, mathematician, and author of the planetary laws of motion...
Why Doctors Like Me Need to Read Chronic Illness Memoirs
On my easiest days as a gastroenterologist, the work makes exquisite sense. Maybe a woman comes back to my office just to say thanks, those antibiotics...
