4+ hour, 51+ min ago  (398+ words) April 23, 2026 issue The Old Man by the Sea The opportunity to attempt this comes at the boutique. Trying on clothes together with "much complimenting, yearning, competing, and envy," four older women, friends of Evelina's'Dr. Martano, Irmtraud, Melania, and Sibilla'present themselves…...

4+ hour, 51+ min ago  (910+ words) April 23, 2026 issue Illustration by Paul Davis As a child, he was taught by his mother to see his glorious stolen birthright embodied in the equestrian statue of the Confederate general John Hunt Morgan on the courthouse lawn of Cheapside Park…...

8+ hour, 48+ min ago  (168+ words) April 23, 2026 issue Picture Theory, New York Friendship 7; a collage by Lucy Sante, 2020 More by Lucy Sante The illustrated poems, satirical ads, and talking shoes that filled the pages of C Comics. December 18, 2025 issue A recent exhibition at the Morgan showed…...

8+ hour, 48+ min ago  (10+ words) The Painter's Shadow World'The New York Review of Books...

4+ hour, 41+ min ago  (613+ words) April 23, 2026 issue Russell Crowe as Hermann G'ring in James Vanderbilt's Nuremberg, 2025 That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (361+ words) The Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck told her models to stay silent and look away from her while she worked. She would not tolerate conversation or a returned gaze. As a result her paintings show the many ways art can present…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (404+ words) I wrote to Maglaque this week to ask her about radical Christianity, feminism, secularism, and whether the premodern world has anything to teach us about our uncertain future." In an essay for our April 4, 2024, issue,"you wrote about how scholars…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago  (497+ words) I thought the winter-set, parka-hooded figure in'Coat Zipper, foregrounded by a shadow, evoked the images coming out of Minnesota, of protests and varietals of ice.'The art gallery David Zwirner recently made'a selection of Levinthal's monotypes available to view online....

4+ week, 3+ hour ago  (161+ words) March 26, 2026 issue Illustration by Emmanuel Pierre State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature More by Aaron Matz Do novelists, and their readers, bear some responsibility for the climate crisis? July 21, 2022 issue "mile Zola's monumental twenty-novel cycle encompasses…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (469+ words) I wrote to Tattersall last week to ask about other lost titans of science, lessons from lemurs, and the future of human history. Anika Banister: Are there any seemingly lost figures of science whom you would like to champion, as…...