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Publications

The New York Review of Books

Media

A Second Chance

On learning persuasion.

Janet Malcolm The New York Review of Books Sep 2020 15min Permalink

Business

The Housing Vultures

How the government enabled the one percent to capitalize on the housing crisis.

Francesca Mari The New York Review of Books May 2020 20min Permalink

Arts History

What Do We Want History to Do to Us?

On Kara Walker.

Zadie Smith The New York Review of Books Feb 2020 25min Permalink

Arts

The Mystery of Hieronymus Bosch

Centuries later, the Flemish master’s works are still open to interpretation.

Ingrid D. Rowland The New York Review of Books Aug 2016 15min Permalink

History Sex

Me, Myself, and I

On the history of masturbation.

Stephen Greenblatt The New York Review of Books Apr 2004 20min Permalink

The Madness of General Mladic

A profile of former Bosnia Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, whose war crimes trial began, and was abruptly suspended, this week.

Robert Block The New York Review of Books Oct 1995 20min Permalink