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Antigone’s Law

The New York Review of Books 

Who can make the world a better place?

Words Not Said

The New York Review of Books 

On the undecided voter

Hitler’s Enablers

The New York Review of Books 

The complicity of conservative nationalists in the Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933 offers disturbing parallels to the current American political situation.

Playing for Time

The New York Review of Books 

With the boisterous energy of direct speech, the novelist Ferdia Lennon takes on both the playfulness and the harsh realism of Euripides.

The Coming Tech Autocracy

The New York Review of Books 

A functional government, committed to safeguarding its citizens, might be keen to create a regulatory agency for AI or pass comprehensive legislation, but we in the United States do not have such a government.

The Peril of Civil Breakdown

The New York Review of Books 

The US political situation radiates instability. How likely is extremist violence in the aftermath of the election?

‘A Woman Who Wins’

The New York Review of Books 

In her series of historical novels about the life of Saint Hilda of Whitby, Nicola Griffith explores how a woman of modest means became one of the most influential people in seventh-century Britain.

The Only Way to Fix US Health Care

The New York Review of Books 

The evidence confirms what our patients regard as common sense: copays and deductibles cause people to skip needed care and hence suffer poorer health, and even mortal consequences.

Ralph Ellison’s Alchemical Camera

The New York Review of Books 

The novelist's photographs reveal an aestheticizing impulse that is difficult to reconcile with the relentless seriousness of his observations and critiques of American society.

Semi-Arid

The New York Review of Books 

As per the book on desert decor, I’m workingto bring the inside out and the outside in: twill blanketin the hammock, aloe bladeangled in the kitchen in its clay pot. Small stuff,but of course I aspire to more: projectorand screen out back, pebbled shower floor. I want to parkmy car in my bedroom. I want […]

Calculated Risks

The New York Review of Books 

Since the overturning of Roe, providing medical care for women as though their lives are as valuable as men's has once again become a subversive act.

Expanding the Vocabulary

The New York Review of Books 

With great discipline and sanity, Kamala Harris has been navigating a minefield of Trumpian insults and attempts to debase her.

As I Lay Dying

The New York Review of Books 

Across thousands of pages, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Morning Star series presents a relentless excess of its characters’ inner lives; at its best, it poses troubling questions about the scope of human knowledge.

Sonnet in Which Most of the Rhymes Fail

The New York Review of Books 

How many now a thousand I can’t lookAmerica a thousand still         I saidI couldn’t then I looked         how could I notWhen I imagine Hell I see the dead Together in a lake I see a thousandAbout a thousand         in a burning lakeThe only torment most of us rememberBut where we heard of it we don’t […]

Getting Out the Fear Vote

The New York Review of Books 

As Trump improvises at his rallies, his grim imaginings of a mongrelized, crime-ridden country are transformed into unfalsifiable myths.

Sneak peek: Who killed Aileen Seiden in Room 15?

CBSNews.com 

All new: Three people check into a Florida motel room. Only two walk out alive. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports Saturday, Oct. 19 at 10/9c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.