Magazine
Comeback Kamala?
Come January 2025, Democrats will not control a single branch of the federal government, as Republicans take the White House and Senate while retaining a slender House…
December 4, 2024
Media kisses up to Trump, Democratic abortion misinformation, Handmaid's Tale & the war on women, nation-states and terrorism, a conspiracy against the border.
Magazine
Trump’s erstwhile critics in the press try to come to terms with four more years
Chuck Schumer is seldom thought of as an oracle of political precognition, but we have to hand it to the longtime Democratic senator from New York: On…
Entertainment
The Lion’s Sher: Review of Cher: The Memoir, Part One
One of the more likable qualities of the clunkily titled Cher: The Memoir, Part One is that its author appears to have taken great delight in writing…
Columnists
Malice in Wonderland
Is Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) a philosophical analysis of language, a political allegory of liberal overreach, or a Menippean satire that, by following curiosity over the…
Magazine
NYRB Classics Editor Edwin Frank shares his reading habit
As I’m typing this, to my left is a very long shelf that mostly contains novels by Barbara Pym, Muriel Spark, Beryl Bainbridge, Brian Moore, and Marly…
Beltway Confidential
Jaguar’s last woke gasp
The 2024 elections seem to be, at least for now, proof that Americans have rejected woke liberal messaging. Evidently, our brothers and sisters across the pond missed…
Magazine
A second-chance Super Bowl for second-place cities
Here is a tale of two once-great cities. They lost their steel mills and auto plants. The factories went quiet. The populations dwindled. In spite of that,…
Entertainment
Conclave proves fallible
Let it not be said that Conclave, the new film about the selection of a new pope from director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front)…
Magazine
Is Hakeem Jeffries the next Dr. Seuss?
Politicians and their ghostwriters regularly churn out books in many different well-worn genres, including memoirs, policy manifestos, and novels. Still, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-NY) latest…
Entertainment
Success has many fathers, but Gladiator II is an orphan
The original Gladiator is Ridley Scott’s magnum opus and remains one of the best films since the turn of the century. The script, despite being written on…