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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...

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...

I might argue that the sea is literature’s greatest character, living as she does among the best mysteries ever written. And yet she is modest. She...

For years, I convinced myself I couldn’t grasp the sense of a sentence without paper and ink. The same letters, flashed on a screen, never seemed...

The collaboration between Germany’s industrial magnates and the Third Reich was a story of mutual exploitation and moral abdication. The electrical parts manufacturer Siemens employed thousands...

In the opening moments of King Rocker, a new documentary about the English post-punk musician Robert Lloyd, the comedian Stewart Lee stands at the entrance to...

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...

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...

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...