War by Other Means
Subverting governments with lies is nothing new
By James Gibney Monday, March 2, 2020
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid
Image Was Everything
A new biography of the seminal pop artist of the 20th century
By Meryle Secrest Monday, March 2, 2020
Warhol by Blake Gopnik
Not Quite Forgotten
The unheralded success ofa fine American novelist
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, March 2, 2020
Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone by Madison Smartt Bell
Making Their Voices Heard
The story behind passage of the 19th Amendment
By Nancy Isenberg Monday, March 2, 2020
Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote by Ellen Carol DuBois
Poet of the Newsroom
A journalist with the unteachable gift of making you read on
By Henry Allen Monday, March 2, 2020
Final Draft: The Collected Work of David Carr edited by Jill Rooney Carr
Heaven and the Heretic
A brilliant scientist whose life is a cautionary tale
By Sam Kean Monday, March 2, 2020
Galileo and the Science Deniers by Mario Livio
Glamour and Violence
A group portrait of the brutal Belle Époque
By Anka Muhlstein Monday, March 2, 2020
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
Searching for Amos Oz in Jerusalem
The acclaimed novelist, who died in 2018, translated Israeli reality
By Randy Rosenthal Monday, March 2, 2020
No Ghost in the Machine
Artificial intelligence isn’t as intelligent as you think
By Mark Halpern Monday, March 2, 2020
Why the Egg Matters
A meditation on remembrance, family, and time
By Laura Bernstein-Machlay Monday, March 2, 2020
Solstice
We couldn’t advertise our grief, lest, years from now, friends and family would watch us sideways, waiting for an explosion from the bomb that never went off.
By David James Poissant Monday, March 2, 2020
Trade Winds
I thought tenure meant I could retire with the team that drafted me
By Jay Neugeboren Monday, March 2, 2020
My Hairy Past
Shoulder length or longer, my mane was about my looks, yes, but also about the need for justice
By David Owen Monday, March 2, 2020
Negative Space
Philip Larkin was middle aged at birth
and came into his post-imperial world
dressed in spectacles and quiet clothing. …