Cover Story
Our Nuclear Future
We may think the bomb is back, but it never really went away
by Jeffrey Lewis
Articles
Dishonorable Behavior
The scourge of military sexual assault and the warrior’s masculine code
by Elizabeth D. Samet
Reading Thoreau at 200
Why is the seminal work of the great American transcendentalist held in such scorn today?
by William Howarth
My Mongolian Spot
An ephemeral birthmark is a rare gift, connecting me to generations spanning the centuries
by Jennifer Hope Choi
Things Sweet to Taste
Much to my regret, I never truly knew the woman who helped raise me
by Leslie Stainton
Goodbye to Westbrook Acres
As a writer walks and muses, the world’s sorrows intrude upon the peaceful streets he will be leaving
by Andrew Hudgins
Departments
Editor's Note
Tuning Up
American Places
Works in Progress
Fiction
Commonplace Book
Book Essay
Remembering Bob Silvers
The legendary New York Review of Books editor knew everybody, had read everything, and oversaw every stage of what he published
Garry Wills
Book Reviews
“I Will Die a Russian”
A marriage of convenience that yielded an intelligence bonanza