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Nawal Arjini on Marty Supreme, the movie that brings Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin O’Leary, Naomi Fry, Isaac...
12/18/2025

Nawal Arjini on Marty Supreme, the movie that brings Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin O’Leary, Naomi Fry, Isaac Mizrahi, and John Catsimatidis

The Hungarian poet Géza Röhrig, the Shark Tank shark Kevin O'Leary, and Timothée Chalamet walk into a bar. The bar is the restaurant of the London Ritz,

Gabriel Winslow-Yost on Bi Gan’s Resurrection
12/18/2025

Gabriel Winslow-Yost on Bi Gan’s Resurrection

Films are rarely made in response to film critics, so it is unlikely that Bi Gan's wildly ambitious new film was inspired Susan Sontag's 1996 essay “The

The latest dispatch from our Art Editor, Leanne Shapton
12/18/2025

The latest dispatch from our Art Editor, Leanne Shapton

The final art newsletter of 2025 covers the art and illustrations in the Review's Holiday Issue and has a more practical purpose than previous

“Should [deep-sea] mining commence just on these tracts that have already been licensed, it would cover a larger geograp...
12/18/2025

“Should [deep-sea] mining commence just on these tracts that have already been licensed, it would cover a larger geographic area by far than any other extractive industry on the planet.” —Rebecca Egan McCarthy

Since 1779 photosynthesis has been the standard-issue explanation for the continuation of life on earth: plants absorb sunlight, which fuels their

“The number of anti-trans bills considered each year has grown from twenty-one in 2015 to over one thousand in 2025.” —P...
12/17/2025

“The number of anti-trans bills considered each year has grown from twenty-one in 2015 to over one thousand in 2025.” —Paisley Currah

The current crusade against trans people imperils not just their rights but the survival of the legal doctrine built to protect all women from discrimination.

“Even as Harold Sonny Ladoo humbly professed to be an apprentice novelist, he considered himself a better, more authenti...
12/16/2025

“Even as Harold Sonny Ladoo humbly professed to be an apprentice novelist, he considered himself a better, more authentic writer than Naipaul and would clash with anyone who dared to challenge that notion.” —Colin Grant

The Trinidadian writer Harold Sonny Ladoo's novel Yesterdays is relentlessly rude and crude, but also bold, experimental, truthfully ugly, and unforgettable.

“The story that Death and the Gardener tells is sadly universal. For some, there will be almost overwhelming instances o...
12/16/2025

“The story that Death and the Gardener tells is sadly universal. For some, there will be almost overwhelming instances of déjà vu.” —Francine Prose

The world, Georgi Gospodinov seems to say in his novel Death and the Gardener, will always remain split into two parts: before and after the catastrophe of losing a parent.

“You cannot take away billions of dollars in annual federal support [for SNAP] without doing damage, and food bank leade...
12/15/2025

“You cannot take away billions of dollars in annual federal support [for SNAP] without doing damage, and food bank leaders doubt that private philanthropy can compensate for a hollowed-out state.” —Christopher Bosso

Most of us grumbled through the latest federal government shutdown, vexed by airport delays, minimally staffed national parks, and shuttered local

“The great liberator of late-twentieth-century architecture, Gehry was a latter-day Alexander who sliced through the Gor...
12/15/2025

“The great liberator of late-twentieth-century architecture, Gehry was a latter-day Alexander who sliced through the Gordian Knot formed by an exhausted Modernism intertwined with a callow Postmodernism.” —Martin Filler

One of the first things I thought of when I heard that Frank Gehry had died was a line from Orson Welles's 1941 masterpiece, Citizen Kane. A reporter

“While amnesty [for fascists] was and remains controversial [in Italy]…it may have also been one of the things that guar...
12/15/2025

“While amnesty [for fascists] was and remains controversial [in Italy]…it may have also been one of the things that guaranteed a peaceful transition from civil war to democracy.” —Alexander Stille

Alcide De Gasperi and the Christian Democrats constructed the foundations of postwar Italian politics, in which what looked like one-party rule was in fact a complex interaction between the left and the right.

“A life raft is a kind of tent where the infinite has come inside: with few supplies and little protection from the surr...
12/14/2025

“A life raft is a kind of tent where the infinite has come inside: with few supplies and little protection from the surrounding sea and weather, there’s almost no division between the two.” —Jé Wilson

Memoirs of survival at sea plunge the reader deep into the heart of human nature.

In Death and the Gardener, “Georgi Gospodinov warns us that he has no intention of prettifying death or looking away fro...
12/13/2025

In Death and the Gardener, “Georgi Gospodinov warns us that he has no intention of prettifying death or looking away from a tragic and humbling deterioration.” —Francine Prose

The world, Georgi Gospodinov seems to say in his novel Death and the Gardener, will always remain split into two parts: before and after the catastrophe of losing a parent.

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