Dan Chiasson

Road Maps for the Soul

The Philosophy of Modern Song can be read as a tour journal, refracted through one lonely song after another.

Rococo Risks

With Venice, her latest collection of poems, Ange Mlinko offers an account of motherhood at a crossroads, now that art and mortality share an empty nest.

The Forest of Crickets

Frost at Midnight

A new, beautifully edited volume of Robert Frost’s letters finds him at the height of his artistic powers while suffering a series of losses almost unimaginable to the fortunate among us.

Giants of the Northeast Kingdom

“Bread and Puppet was part of a Vermont I didn’t know as a kid, or only saw out of the corner of my eye.”

Larger Than Life

Nearly sixty years after its founding, Bread and Puppet Theater still has the power to unsettle, despite evoking old battles, old adversaries, and perhaps even lost causes.

This Ain’t No Disco

Talking Heads were at once a party band and an art project.

College Cuts in the Green Mountain State

Citing enrollment “data,” the University of Vermont is the latest to cancel humanities programs. Isn’t it time to value liberal arts education another way?

Dream

a poem

Pandemic Journal

The latest edition of our brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Coco Fusco in Brooklyn, Lucas Adams in Brooklyn, Sara Nović in Philadelphia, Gavin Francis in Edinburgh, and more.

Like You This

True Mirages

‘Orange World and Other Stories’ by Karen Russell

Vanities & Regrets

All the Songs Are Now Yours

Listeners can now discover all kinds of weird, sublime, or perplexing musical paths

Crossing the Invisible Line

The astonishing work of poet Eileen Myles set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match.

‘The Knife There on the Shelf’

Comic, Ironic, Grieving

Sleepwalking with Bob Dylan

Minor and major talents

Prodigal Bob Dylan

Where’s Brando?