THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

JULY 30. 2026

Where the Meanings Are

Fairfield Porter was an insider among the East Coast elite, but his own portraits of life in Southampton and Maine give the charming impression of an outsider looking in.

The Grand Master of Abjection

Pope. L, best known for his performance art, also made drawings and paintings animated by his sense of the absurd and his concern for the marginalized.

Along the Ucayali River

Sara Flores adapts the ancient designs of the Shipibo-Conibo tribe of Peru into large, pattern-based paintings.

Language Is the Medium

To the Editors: I read Dan Chiasson’s reflections on AI with sympathy and interest, and thought the statement he issued to his students was absolutely

Jackie Robinson’s Worst Nightmare

To the Editors: In Andrew Katzenstein’s review of A. M. Gittlitz’s Metropolitans he writes that Jackie Robinson was “a loyal Republican until Barry

JULY 29. 2026

‘Take that Phony Dream and Burn It’

Just a few weeks before Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman premiered on Broadway on February 10, 1949, President Harry Truman elaborated his “Fair Deal”

JULY 28. 2026

Close Calls

In the Supreme Court’s recently concluded term, it showed that it is willing to constrain Trump but less willing to accept limits on its own authority.

People Want to Be Heard

Sarah Stillman is a staff writer at The New Yorker and one of the most decorated investigative reporters of her generation. She has won several National

JULY 26. 2026

Life on the List

Late one night in May 2016, Naif al-Qaysi was riding shotgun in an old Landcruiser as it barreled down an empty highway through the desert connecting

JULY 25. 2026

All of Life

In the Review’s June 25 issue, Joe Dunthorne writes about a recent oral history of the New York School poets and poses himself a challenge: “How to

La Querelle des Femmes

In 2015, I was on a panel at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design titled “Do We Need Exhibitions Just for Women? ” As I remember, most of the participants

JULY 24. 2026

Secondhand Memory

In 1954, with the ending of French colonial rule in Southeast Asia, the Geneva Accords established Laos as an independent state, led by the Royal Lao

JULY 23. 2026

Target Practice

In April 2024 international news sources circulated a video of a talk delivered by a senior Israeli military official during a tech conference at Tel Aviv

JULY 22. 2026

Gaza’s Deadly Soil

Long before October 2023, Gaza’s people suffered international sanctions, a humiliating occupation, and periodic Israeli bombardments. Few could leave the