THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

FEBRUARY 18. 2026

Cold Plunge

A dispatch from the Art Editor

FEBRUARY 17. 2026

A Bitter Winter in Ukraine

Four years after their full-scale invasion, the Russians are trying to freeze Ukraine into submission by relentlessly attacking the country’s energy grid.

FEBRUARY 14. 2026

Contempt of Court

Since the Trump administration began its strategy of indefinitely detaining people it has targeted for deportation, federal judges across the country and

Authoritarianism from Below

As National Guard troops and federal officers swarmed Washington, D. C. , in August, sent by President Donald Trump to confront what he declared a “crime

FEBRUARY 13. 2026

Medicaid Undone

One year ago President Donald Trump promised to “love and cherish” Medicaid. Alas, his affection for the public insurance program was short-lived. The

FEBRUARY 12. 2026

Pieces of Gaza

Until 2024, the objects on display in “Trésors sauvés de Gaza” , an exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris that

FEBRUARY 11. 2026

Darryl Pinckney on Memoir, Friendship, and Elizabeth Hardwick

In the first episode of our podcast Private Life, Darryl Pinckney talks with host Jarrett Earnest about his close friend and former teacher Elizabeth Hardwick.

FEBRUARY 10. 2026

‘Fill It With Reality’

In 1962 Françoise Ega, a Martinican woman working odd jobs and raising five children in Marseille, stumbled upon a newspaper article about Carolina Maria

FEBRUARY 7. 2026

The Writer from the Dance

Alma Guillermoprieto has spent her nearly fifty-year career writing about America—North and South, from New York to Argentina. From her earliest essay in

Never Again, Once Again

A few years ago, in the early summer of 2019, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum declared on its website that it “unequivocally rejects efforts

FEBRUARY 5. 2026

An American Reckoning

Robert McNamara’s failure to reckon with the exceptionalism that led the United States into the Vietnam War contributed to fifty years of foreign policy failures. It can help us understand the crisis facing American democracy today.

The Struggle for the Fed

The Fed is under attack. Can it be both protected and held accountable?

Painted Sermons

The dazzling works of Fra Angelico both testify to the immense wealth and power of fourteenth-century Florentine society and attempt to heal its pride, greed, and brutal inequality.

Toni Plays the Dozens

What’s so funny about Toni Morrison?