Mark Lilla

The Writer Apart

Who is the “nonpolitical” man Thomas Mann tried to defend even as he couldn’t escape politics?

May 13, 2021 issue

Keep Your Wits

November 5, 2020 issue

How to Write About the Right: An Exchange

January 17, 2019 issue

Two Roads for the New French Right

Something new is happening on the European right, and it involves more than xenophobic populist outbursts.

December 20, 2018 issue

Letter

James McAuley

How to Write About the Right: An Exchange

January 17, 2019 issue

Robert B. Silvers in his office at The New York Review of Books, early 1980s

On Robert Silvers

Nineteen writers remember The New York Review’s editor.

May 11, 2017 issue

A demonstrator with an issue of Charlie Hebdo at the march against terrorism, Paris, January 11, 2015. The cartoon on the cover shows a Jew, a Catholic, and a Muslim demanding that ‘“Charlie Hebdo” must be veiled!’

How the French Face Terror

Four recent books show a country going through the classic stages of trauma

Open Letter: On Blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the True Enemies of Free Expression

by Charb, with a foreword by Adam Gopnik

Who Is Charlie?: Xenophobia and the New Middle Class

by Emmanuel Todd, translated from the French by Andrew Brown, with maps and diagrams by Philippe Laforgue

Situation de la France [France’s Situation]

by Pierre Manent

Terreur dans l’Hexagone: Genèse du djihad français [Terror in the Hexagon: The Genesis of French Jihadism]

by Gilles Kepel, with Antoine Jardin

March 24, 2016 issue

Actors from the Globe Theatre performing Hamlet for refugees and migrants in the Jungle refugee camp, Calais, France, February 2016

France: Is There a Way Out?

Economic stagnation, political paralysis, terrorism, and migrants

March 10, 2016 issue

France: The Myths

November 19, 2015 issue

André Malraux, France’s first minister of culture, Paris, 1968; photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Strangely Conservative French

How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People

by Sudhir Hazareesingh

October 22, 2015 issue

Letter

Sudhir Hazareesingh

France: The Myths

November 19, 2015 issue

Slouching Toward Mecca

Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Soumission’

Soumission

by Michel Houellebecq

April 2, 2015 issue

Éric Zemmour arriving at court for his trial on charges of inciting racial hatred, Paris, January 2011

France: A Strange Defeat

Éric Zemmour’s ‘Le Suicide français’

Le Suicide français

by Éric Zemmour

March 19, 2015 issue

French President François Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President of the European Council and former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Jordan’s Queen Rania and King Abdullah, and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi marching to protest terrorism following the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, Paris, January 11, 2015

France on Fire

It is hard to escape the feeling that a major battle is beginning

March 5, 2015 issue

Demonstrators on the Triumph of the Republic statue at Place de la Nation, during the march in support of Charlie Hebdo, Paris, January 11, 2015

France: The Ground Shifts

In Paris after the attacks, the shock is that things are far worse than anyone had feared.

January 14, 2015

Arendt & Eichmann

December 19, 2013 issue

Claude Lanzmann and Benjamin Murmelstein, Rome, 1975; from Lanzmann’s film The Last of the Unjust

The Defense of a Jewish Collaborator

Claude Lanzmann’s ‘The Last of the Unjust’

The Last of the Unjust

a film directed by Claude Lanzmann

Terezin: Il ghetto-modello di Eichmann [Theresienstadt: Eichmann’s Model Ghetto]

by Benjamin Murmelstein

“Der Letzte der Ungerechten”: Der “Judenälteste” Benjamin Murmelstein in Filmen 1942–1975 [“The Last of the Unjust”: The “Jewish Head Elder” Benjamin Murmelstein in Films 1942–1975]

edited by Ronny Loewy and Katharina Rauschenberger

December 5, 2013 issue

Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, Sicily, 1971

Arendt & Eichmann: The New Truth

Margarethe von Trotta’s film ‘Hannah Arendt’

Hannah Arendt

a film by Margarethe von Trotta

Hannah Arendt: Ihr Denken veränderte die Welt [Hannah Arendt: Her Thought Changed the World]

edited by Martin Wiebel, with a foreword by Franziska Augstein

November 21, 2013 issue

Letter

Roger Berkowitz

Arendt & Eichmann

December 19, 2013 issue

The artist Otto Mühl, dancing with a member of his Friedrichshof commune, June 1, 1989

Tyrant of the Commune

Paul-Julien Robert is an angry young man. And he has every right to be. Robert was born in 1979 to a young Swiss woman living in Friedrichshof, a famous, and later infamous, Austrian commune that was once the largest in Europe.

August 7, 2013