Nick Laird

Nick Laird’s fifth book of poems, Up Late, is published in June in the UK and will appear in the US this fall. He is the Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast. (June 2023)

Talking to the Sun in Washington Square

June 8, 2023 issue

Auden’s Dialectic

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

Poems

by W.H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson

April 6, 2023 issue

The Hidden Crime

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

March 19, 2022

Partial Reports

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

Whatever You Say, Say Nothing

by Gilles Peress, with texts by Chris Klatell

March 10, 2022 issue

Fun for One

a poem

May 14, 2020 issue

Pandemic Journal

Dispatches from around the world documenting the coronavirus outbreak

April 23, 2020 issue

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.

March 29, 2020

Blood and Brexit

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

January 16, 2020 issue

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.

December 10, 2019