The Way She Was
“I never thought I was great,” Barbra Streisand writes in her capacious memoir, but the truth seems to be that for a large part of her life she has flirted with the possibility that she was.
April 4, 2024 issue
Saint Josef
Josef Koudelka’s photographs register the weight of history.
March 24, 2024
A Hectic Life
The bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death is an opportunity to ask what a witty dandy with the flamboyant attitudes of a raucously chauvinistic age can offer today’s world.
April 4, 2024 issue
Musical Chairs
Why did New York City’s rents skyrocket in the aftermath of the pandemic?
March 26, 2024
‘Thus I Lived with Words’
The modern reading public has resisted relinquishing its settled idea about Robert Louis Stevenson as a romantic fantasist, but in his day he was considered one of the best essayists of his generation.
April 4, 2024 issue
Free from the Archives
Elizabeth Hardwick: Selma, Alabama: The Charms of Goodness“How do they see themselves, we wonder, these posse-men, Sheriff Clark’s volunteers, with their guns and sticks and helmets, nearly always squat, fairfaced, middle-aged delinquents and psychopaths?”
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