THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

JULY 2. 2026

The Eyes Have It

Carol Rama’s abstractions from the late 1960s conjure burned, brutalized bodies.

Is the Artist Present?

By transforming her own old paintings into new works of art, Eliza Douglas raises questions about sincerity and cynicism.

JUNE 30. 2026

Broken Promises in Cuban Miami

Donald Trump has reversed the government’s longstanding benevolence toward Cuban asylum seekers, even as his administration exacerbates the crisis they fled.

JUNE 28. 2026

The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum

Afees Monsef has a grave magnetism that makes him easy to find, even in a crowd. 1 We first met in the spring of 2025, at a gathering in the basement of

JUNE 27. 2026

Spare Me the Hedgehoggery

“I’m not fond of efforts to see ourselves reflected in places where we aren’t: better, I think, to let the past be the past in all its irreducible bloody-minded weirdness. ”

JUNE 26. 2026

Resistance Choirs

For centuries the Lenape people had hunting grounds and fishing camps in an area they called Penadnic, in the rocky hills of upper Manhattan. Wrested away

JUNE 24. 2026

Through the Looking Glass

A dispatch from the Art Editor

Safety Is When There’s No One Dying

The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund is based in the Blue Building, a medical center across from the American University of Beirut, in the city’s Hamra

JUNE 23. 2026

‘An Eternal Indoors’

It is a persistent wonder of the Internet that so much can, at times, be built from so little. A simple doorway opens to a vast labyrinth, assembled by

JUNE 21. 2026

Figuring

In the “At the Galleries” column from our June 25, 2026, issue, Lovia Gyarkye writes about an exhibition of work by the British artist Lynette

JUNE 20. 2026

Variations on Broken Eggs

In April 1951 Randall Jarrell sent a short poem titled “A War” to his friend Robert Lowell: There set out, slowly, for a Different World, At four, on

JUNE 17. 2026

Dead Lands

In the mid-1990s, among the various unrelated jobs I took up, there was one that involved teaching video-making workshops to schoolchildren. One such

JUNE 14. 2026

Putting the Lake to Work

In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the

JUNE 13. 2026

Planet UFC

For decades it has been White House tradition to invite Ireland's prime minister, the Taoiseach, to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day with a ceremonial