The New York Review of Books

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‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks · Jul 3

Our 7/24 issue is now online, with @JamesGleick on AI nonsense, @JoyceCarolOates on serial killers and toxic metals, @lola_seaton on Sheila Heti, @CaseyWillyums on degrowth, @ReginaMarler on the Brothers Grimm, @nijhuism on what we save, and much more. go.nybooks.com/4nO3CED

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“Without his son [Xi Jinping]’s ascent to power, Xi Zhongxun would probably have been remembered as a rising star whose career came to an early halt thanks to a curiosity—a historical novel.” —@iandenisjohnson go.nybooks.com/3Ujjcdy

nybooks's tweet card. New biographies of Xi Zhongxun and Hu Yaobang provide insights into the opaque culture of the Chinese Communist Party and the political ascent of Xi's son, Xi Jinping.

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks · Jul 22

Xi Jinping’s father had been purged for “help[ing] the daughter of an old friend who was writing a sensitive novel,” @iandenisjohnson writes. “Perhaps his son [Xi Jinping] has decided that these were mistakes and to pursue instead much more focused and ruthless policies.”…

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks · 7 h

“For all its cheeky nods to actual celebrities both major and minor, Service is not an insider’s book,” Anahid Nersessian writes. “It is, rather, a book about...the nightmare of trying to live—let alone make art—with very little money.” go.nybooks.com/411lMZs

nybooks's tweet card. The hypocrisies of our social contract are exposed in John Tottenham’s hilarious debut novel about a wage worker in a bookstore.

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks · 12 h

“US control over the Panama Canal [has] a robust history in the neocon playbook, but it’s still a rather deep cut.... I certainly did not foresee the canal’s sovereignty reemerging as a geopolitical issue in 2025.” —an interview with @MiriamPensack go.nybooks.com/3IxLezC

nybooks's tweet card. One weekend last December, Donald Trump suddenly became fixated on reviving a ghost of US empire—control of the Panama Canal. He has since warned that he

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Ursula Lindsey@ursulind · Jul 22

Read this: nybooks.com/online/2025/07…

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Tara Raghuveer@taraghuveer · Jul 22

To understand how @ZohranKMamdani won the mayoral primary by a full 12 points last month, it helps to understand how tenants like Ferdousi Begum and Parveg Hasan decided to go on the offensive against real estate. My first for @nybooks, learned so much! nybooks.com/online/2025/07…

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The Paris Review@parisreview · Jul 22

Through Labor Day, you really can have it all when you subscribe to both The Paris Review and @nybooks for a combined price of $119. buff.ly/CntsqxW

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Piper French@PiperSFrench · 16 h

Wrote for @nybooks abt the LA immigration raids, unions' vexed relationship to immigrant workers & how worker centers emerged from that vacuum, how they are mobilizing now & the possibility that more expansive solidarities might emerge out of this crisis: nybooks.com/online/2025/07…

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks · 19 h

“At first we convinced ourselves that the chance for me to leave was some kind of joke. Now the joke was over. I took my last step toward the bus that would carry me to another side of the world.” —Doha Kahlout on leaving Gaza go.nybooks.com/40sNMFh

nybooks's tweet card. I had been in Paris for more than a week when Gaza surfaced again, like a scar the body has come to accept. On the train to Argenteuil I sat facing the

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks · 21 h

On Ukraine’s public petition website, “virtually all the submissions are now pleas for fallen loved ones to be granted posthumous military honors…. To scroll through the list is to begin to take in the volume and nature of the loss.” —@lindakinstler go.nybooks.com/4o2dE4M

nybooks's tweet card. In mid-February, just ahead of Volodymyr Zelensky’s ill-fated visit to the White House, a thirty-year-old engineer from Kharkiv named Vladyslav Voronin

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks · 23 h

“Solar deployment may slow down in Trump’s America, but in the rest of the world it is spreading like wildfire,” @jonmingle writes. “The reason is straightforward: solar and batteries are simply getting too cheap.” go.nybooks.com/4meuJHj

nybooks's tweet card. For anyone concerned that the world is hurtling toward three degrees of warming by the end of the century—a future described as “hellish” by the UN

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks · Jul 23

“John Tottenham’s Service both refuses to romanticize the condition of being down and out and finds in it something much more admirable than the jaunty pretensions of LA’s grifters, hacks, and social climbers.” —Anahid Nersessian go.nybooks.com/4eZmhZU

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks · Jul 23

“Despite their intellectual curiosity and initiative—they both launched into freelance scholarly projects as soon as they left university—the Grimms’ best-known endeavor arose through serendipity.” —@ReginaMarler go.nybooks.com/44CJ3n2

nybooks's tweet card. Like so many of the adventures recounted in their anthologies of fairy tales, the Grimm brothers’ journey to lasting fame might never have begun had they not suffered a striking reversal of fortune...

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks · Jul 22

Tara Raghuveer (@taraghuveer) on how New York City’s renters organized for Zohran go.nybooks.com/3GPBrV2

nybooks's tweet card. The night before the New York City municipal primary, the air was sticky with heat and Ferdousi Begum was too tense to sleep. For the past six months,

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks · Jul 22

Charlie Dulik on the past and future of tenant organizing go.nybooks.com/4lDrMjp

nybooks's tweet card. More than a third of the US population rent their homes. The number of tenants in the country is growing fast—nearly triple the rate of homeowner growth

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks · Jul 22

Jonathan Mingle (@jonmingle) on how Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill could fuel blackouts across America go.nybooks.com/4lZGYHw

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks · Jul 22

“Imams in the US,” writes @AidaAlami, “[need] to guide their congregants through civic life in a country whose dominant culture is secularizing, pluralistic, and systematically Islamophobic.” go.nybooks.com/3TRLOL0

nybooks's tweet card. For years I have been working on a documentary film about young Muslims in France, centered on the 2017 trial that convicted a police officer of killing a

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks · Jul 22

In Ukraine, an online petition board allows “any citizen or resident [to] submit or sign a plea addressed to the government,” writes @lindakinstler. “Over the past three years the appeals have assumed an increasingly plaintive and grimly realist tone.” go.nybooks.com/4f3SKOM

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks · Jul 22

Albert Barnes built his art collection by “riding roughshod over the protocols and academic autonomy of institutions with which he was dealing….[and] expelling elite philistine[s] from his democratic fortress.” —Ruth Bernard Yeazell go.nybooks.com/454F6rd

nybooks's tweet card. Even as he assembled a world-class art collection, Albert C. Barnes always saw himself as an embattled underdog.

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks · Jul 21

The imprisonment of Recep Erdoğan’s political rivals has long been “a means of suppressing dissent in Turkey,” Aryeh Neier writes. “But the scale of the resulting protests may persuade him to devise an alternate means of perpetuating his rule.” go.nybooks.com/455GOZq

nybooks's tweet card. For his work as an activist and philanthropist, Osman Kavala has been unjustly imprisoned in Turkey for seven and a half years.

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