‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’https://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mkabfujq2k2b“The labor of organizing and negotiating the recovery of Gertrud’s art returned me to the secular German Jewish world that my father had rejected.” —Simon During on the paintings of his great-aunt Gertrud Kauders https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/17/finding-gertrud-kauders/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-24_During-KaudersMemoir-324 Apr 2026 10:01 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkabfujq2k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mka5rmj76g2s“I find the most moving pieces of religious art, I’m sure from any part of the world, are those still in their original chapels, cathedrals, temples, or ruins.” —an interview with Lauren Kane https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/18/after-mystics-lauren-kane-medieval-art/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-24_Kane-BE-324 Apr 2026 08:56 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mka5rmj76g2shttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk7kgwkbxq2oGeorge Templeton Strong’s diaries “give us not only the sense of an enduring crisis [during the Civil War] but also the feeling of an ongoing quotidian life, the kind of thing that even the best novelists must struggle to achieve.” —Michael Gorra https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/living-through-the-civil-war-george-templeton-strong/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-18_Gorra-GeorgeTempletonStrong-324 Apr 2026 03:10 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7kgwkbxq2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk7cvjhvf62l“Much like Frank and Joe Hardy at the start of every book, I sensed trouble in the air, a mystery, and I returned to their idyllic world to try to solve it.” —Daniel Lefferts on the right-wing press reissuing the Hardy Boys novels https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/16/hardy-men-hardy-boys-passage-press/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-18_Lefferts-Hardy-Boys-224 Apr 2026 00:55 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7cvjhvf62lhttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk6gdjkutb27Our Art Issue is now online, with Jed Perl on the Whitney Biennial, @fotoole.bsky.social on Trump’s precarious sanity, Elaine Blair on the Guerrilla Girls, Mark O’Connell on a death in London, Nick Laird on Seamus Heaney, Susan Tallman on Manet & Morisot, and more. https://go.nybooks.com/4eDS04E23 Apr 2026 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6gdjkutb27https://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk6c5rnrwi2uHampshire College, writes Christopher Benfey, was “the most visible exemplar of a tradition of ‘experimental’ higher-ed,” combining “John Dewey’s ideas of experience-based education with hands-on practice in the arts and a cosmopolitan take on the world.” https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/19/a-clearing-of-the-ground-hampshire-college/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-23_Benfey-Hampshire-323 Apr 2026 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6c5rnrwi2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk6a745jam27Will Alden on the monarchists of the Iranian disapora https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/22/waiting-for-day-zero-los-angeles-iranians/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-23_Alden-Tehrangeles-123 Apr 2026 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6a745jam27https://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk673e4ysx2jNick Laird on why Seamus Heaney “means poetry to me” https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/the-music-of-what-happens-poems-of-seamus-heaney/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-23_Laird-Heaney-123 Apr 2026 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk673e4ysx2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk63mhifaj26Susan Tallman on the pleasures of Manet and Morisot https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/manet-and-morisot-game-on-tallman/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-23_Tallman-ManetMorisot-123 Apr 2026 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk63mhifaj26https://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk62tgq3p726Jed Perl on the Whitney Biennial and the reopening of the New Museum https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/art-for-our-age-of-chaos-new-humans-new-museum-whitney-biennial/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-23_Perl-NewMuseumWhitney-123 Apr 2026 12:58 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk62tgq3p726https://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk5rvd3hsd2y“Rage has to be controlled when it comes up against outside limitations, but there is a sense in which, for Trump, there is no outside.” —@fotoole.bsky.social https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/the-right-amount-of-crazy-fintan-otoole/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-23_OToole-MadKing-223 Apr 2026 10:18 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5rvd3hsd2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk55kgp3632s“Morgan Meis doesn’t confront works of art directly.... He regards particular paintings as catalysts for a more general inquiry into the knotty question of how artists work.” —Jed Perl https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/the-painters-shadow-world-morgan-meis/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-17_Perl-MorganMeis-223 Apr 2026 04:14 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk55kgp3632shttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk4pzpuevr2hJeremy Lybarger (@jeremylybarger.bsky.social) writes about the artist H. C. Westermann, who the critic Dennis Adrian once called “an odd amalgam of Herman Melville’s cursed wanderers, Raymond Chandler’s tough guys, and Walt Whitman’s solitary individualists.” https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/11/a-workingmans-surrealist-hc-westermann/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-17_Lybarger-AnchorClanker-323 Apr 2026 00:12 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4pzpuevr2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk4lxjx4hq24Martin Filler is interviewed by Jarrett Earnest in the latest episode of our Private Life podcast. Listen here: https://go.nybooks.com/4dZjgKI https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/22/martin-filler-on-writing-frank-gehry-and-the-dramatic-world-of-architecture/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-22_Filler-ModernArchitecture-122 Apr 2026 22:59 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4lxjx4hq24https://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk4j3yl6mg2l“Authoritarianism should never be treated as a purely political phenomenon, as though it were simply a matter of strong rulers, weak institutions, or some supposed cultural predisposition.” —an interview with Adam Hanieh https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/11/a-widening-gulf-adam-hanieh/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-17_Hanieh-BE-322 Apr 2026 22:08 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4j3yl6mg2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk4cq6bqkj2s“Through the effusion of pomp, one might have missed any intimation of what was to come. In retrospect…the [Olympics] revealed the tenuous state of global affairs, and the futility of the IOC’s call for unity, on the brink of Operation Epic Fury.” —Jake Nevins https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/19/war-games-olympics-empire/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-22_Nevins-WinterOlympics-322 Apr 2026 20:14 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4cq6bqkj2shttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk4c4k5z4o2s“The figure of the mystic seems to have access to something that we people more weighed down by the world around us want to understand but can’t.” —an interview with Lauren Kane https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/18/after-mystics-lauren-kane-medieval-art/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-22_Kane-BE-222 Apr 2026 20:03 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4c4k5z4o2shttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk3nox4l762lTODAY: ‘Why This War?’ Pankaj Mishra, Ben Rhodes (@rhodesben.bsky.social), and Suzy Hansen on Iran. Begins at 1:00 PM EDT. Register for free below: https://go.nybooks.com/490e99C22 Apr 2026 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3nox4l762lhttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk3lb4vrp62oThe gospel singer Mavis Staples‘s recent albums affirm “the importance, even necessity, of putting trust in the people around you,” writes Sophie Abramowitz. “No ‘I’ gets by alone.” https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/16/she-knows-a-place-mavis-staples/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-22_Abramowitz-Staples-222 Apr 2026 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3lb4vrp62ohttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk3bgfqydw2y“Morgan Meis writes with such muscular urgency that his talk of gods, myths, prophets, and spirits never feels old-fashioned. Everything this writer touches becomes contemporary.” —Jed Perl https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/the-painters-shadow-world-morgan-meis/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-22_Perl-MorganMeis-322 Apr 2026 10:18 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3bgfqydw2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk3ay57ibo2b“When Walker Percy encouraged the Jewish writers in New Orleans to tell their stories, Nicholas Lemann realized that he could not.... His ignorance, he said, ‘was the product of a fiercely enforced family policy.’” —Brenda Wineapple https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/world-of-his-fathers-returning-nicholas-lemann/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-16_Wineapple-LemannReturning-222 Apr 2026 10:10 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3ay57ibo2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk3aegh7uw2u“As an axis of counterrevolution and predation,” writes Colin Powers, “the UAE has been one of the twenty-first century’s quiet villains.” https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/10/the-emirates-on-the-tightrope/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-16_Powers-UAE-322 Apr 2026 09:59 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3aegh7uw2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk3aatxkkv2j“Tennyson offered these tortured [agnostic] souls something more than fellow feeling. As they fell from faith he provided a place to land.” —Kathryn Hughes https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/heavens-elegist-tennyson-boundless-deep-holmes/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-15_Hughes-Holmes-222 Apr 2026 09:57 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3aatxkkv2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/nybooks.com/post/3mk2gbeedzb2jThe story of the 1970s anti-pollution crusader Rex Braun, writes Scott W. Stern, helps “return us to a Texas in which populist environmentalism was imaginable.” https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/13/go-out-and-sue-a-polluter/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-04-16_Stern-Braun-222 Apr 2026 02:12 +0000at://did:plc:omf7ijgofbpg6qdivyv7mio4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk2gbeedzb2j