THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

DECEMBER 20. 2025

A Christmas Story

The Bible is unquestionably the most scrutinized “book” in history. Yet certain obvious facts about it nonetheless escape notice. For example, as Diarmaid

‘Minimum Victory’

On December 1, a group of prominent Ukrainian intellectuals and politicians published a manifesto in Ukrainska Pravda about how the war might end. “It is

DECEMBER 19. 2025

‘They Killed Our People’

In the spring of 2008, at a small desk piled with papers and notebooks, Lisa Hicks-Gilbert sat spellbound in front of a laptop. After a lifetime of

DECEMBER 18. 2025

East Side Story

The Hungarian poet Géza Röhrig, the Shark Tank shark Kevin O’Leary, and Timothée Chalamet walk into a bar. The bar is the restaurant of the London Ritz,

DECEMBER 17. 2025

A Medicine Ball in Your Stocking

The final art newsletter of 2025 covers the art and illustrations in the Review’s Holiday Issue and has a more practical purpose than previous