Nick Laird

Talking to the Sun in Washington Square

Auden’s Dialectic

In Auden’s complete poems, edited by Edward Mendelson, the poet veers from puckish youth to adult diagnostician and back again.

The Hidden Crime

“When murderers are rehabilitated without admissions of guilt, and history’s rewritten, a new and awful reality occurs.”

Partial Reports

Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, Gilles Peress’s collection of photographs from the Troubles, presents an overwhelming narrative of Republican heroics.

Fun for One

a poem

Pandemic Journal

Dispatches from around the world documenting the coronavirus outbreak

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.

Blood and Brexit

Every evil act I’ve ever seen committed was done in the name of identity.

Blood and Brexit

We lived in Mid Ulster during the spate of tit-for-tat killings, as they were called. We remember all the bomb scares and evacuations and fear. We remember all the bombs. We remember all the shootings. We remember being turned back from going to school at a checkpoint by masked men with baseball bats.

Positive Capability

Like the honest politician or the reality TV star, the prose poem is an oxymoron.

First Editions

The Cold Eye of Marianne Moore

‘A New Way of Writing About Race’

Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen’

A Lover’s Quarrel with the World

Defiant, Exhilarating, and Poetic

The Triumph of the Survivor

Hate and Love in London

The Triumph of Paul Muldoon

Vespers at Pacifico’s