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The latest edition of our brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Dan Chiasson in Wellesley, and more....

When people express concern about the consequences of pandemic politics for democracy, they are thinking of a fairly familiar, and limited, repertoire of activities—voting, primaries, conventions,...

For those not clued into conservative grievance culture, the behavior of Devin Nunes and his Republican colleagues during the impeachment hearings in the House struck an...

To the Editors: Alan Ryan argues that when society makes compromises as various people seek rights (e.g., a gay couple trying to buy a wedding cake...

What if the finest, funniest, craziest, sanest, most cheerfully depressing Korean-American novel was also one of the first? Practically everything about Younghill Kang’s brash modernist comic...

Among the many new phrases that have suddenly become common currency—“six feet,” “social distancing,” “flatten the curve”—“essential worker” is perhaps the most significant. The term acknowledges...