Michael Greenberg

Janet Malcolm (1934–2021)

Janet Malcolm’s journalism focused on the contradictory motives, confused allegiances, and hidden drives of human life.

The Illusion of Invincibility

The Costs of Cuomo’s Cuts

Emergency Responder

Prior to the pandemic, few could have predicted the astonishing performance of New York’s unloved governor, Andrew Cuomo

Pandemic Journal, March 23–29

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Michael Greenberg in Brooklyn, Raquel Salas Rivera in San Juan, Aida Alami in Paris, Rahmane Idrissa in Niamey, and more.

A Historic Win for New York Tenants

To understand the majesty of the new law, consider the fact that about 880,000 people—more than twice the number who live in New York City’s public housing—have immediately been freed from a looming threat of eviction.

Farmworker Anxieties

Building in Berkeley

California: The State of Resistance

California feels like a breakaway state, with its own mores, laws, phobias, and monumental contradictions.

In the Valley of Fear

In the San Joaquin Valley, workers live in terror of instant deportation or imprisonment that would wrench them from their children.

Ricketts to Reporters: Drop Dead

Last week’s unexpected shutdown of the online news sites DNAinfo and Gothamist came as a shock. News organizations’ only recourse at present is to hope that Congress may enact antitrust legislation that takes into account the monopolistic evolution of the Internet.

New York’s Housing Crisis

New York City is in the throes of a humanitarian emergency. The tide of homelessness is only the most visible symptom.

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

The New Resistance

Unlike in the past, the opposition to Trump’s policies from a broad range of present and former elected officials has been immediate and appears to be spurred on by, and in visceral agreement with, protesters on the street.

On the Town

The Passions of Vargas Llosa

Caught in the Act

A sampling of meticulous mug shots, along with about forty crime-related images from American tabloids, police files, security cameras, and photographers both anonymous and widely known, comprise the fascinating exhibition “Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play,” currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Scorched by Murder

Dislodged in New York

A new documentary, Homme Less, opening on August 7 at the IFC Center in Manhattan, is a reminder of how far the homeless population now reaches in New York.

Catching Hold of the Devious City