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srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/gottlieb_1-021011.jpg?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/gottlieb_1-021011.jpg?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/gottlieb_1-021011.jpg?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/gottlieb_1-021011.jpg?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Tim Flannery</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Man’s Biggest Friend</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">The origins of the elephant–human relationship date back into prehistory. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> November 21, 2019 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-4 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2013/04/30/octopus-footed-void/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Wonderpus-Octopus.jpg?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Wonderpus-Octopus.jpg?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Wonderpus-Octopus.jpg?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Wonderpus-Octopus.jpg?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Wonderpus-Octopus.jpg?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="Wonderpus octopus, Lembeh Strait, Indonesia" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red 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https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/paxton_1-022521.jpg?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/paxton_1-022521.jpg?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/paxton_1-022521.jpg?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Robert O. Paxton</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Intrepid Navigators</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">Migration’s demands on birds are as daunting mentally as they are physically. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> February 25, 2021 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-4 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/08/19/whales-requiem-for-heavyweight/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/klinkenborg_1-081921.jpg?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/klinkenborg_1-081921.jpg?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/klinkenborg_1-081921.jpg?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/klinkenborg_1-081921.jpg?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/klinkenborg_1-081921.jpg?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Verlyn Klinkenborg</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Requiem for a Heavyweight</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">In <em>Fathoms</em>, Rebecca Giggs tries to comprehend the fact that whales now literally embody their increasingly polluted world. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> August 19, 2021 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-4 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1994/11/03/cats/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1994/11/Klee-Cat.png?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1994/11/Klee-Cat.png?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1994/11/Klee-Cat.png?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1994/11/Klee-Cat.png?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1994/11/Klee-Cat.png?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Desmond Morris</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">CATS</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">To enjoy the company of a cat, we must be prepared to forgo our dominant pack leader role, and adopt a more modest position. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> November 3, 1994 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-4 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1997/05/15/horse-sense/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1997/05/Gericault-Horse.png?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1997/05/Gericault-Horse.png?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1997/05/Gericault-Horse.png?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1997/05/Gericault-Horse.png?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1997/05/Gericault-Horse.png?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Elizabeth Marshall Thomas</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Horse Sense</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">A book for naturalists or cowboys, bluegrass aristocrats or race-track touts, distinguished academics or little girls gone horse-crazy, and all readers with an interest in <em>Equus caballus</em>. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> May 15, 1997 issue </p> </a> </article> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container position-relative"> <div class="collection-bottom text-center"> <div class="pt-xs-4"></div> <div class="collection-bottom-border border-ny-red pl-lg-2 pr-lg-2"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-collection"> <div class="article-collection-inner w-100 mb-xs-6 mb-lg-12"> <div class="container position-relative px-0"> <div class="collection-top text-center"> <div class="collection-title h2 pt-xs-2 pb-xs-1 pl-xs-4 pr-xs-4 bg-ny-red color-yellow d-inline-block mb-0">And the Oscar Goes to…</div> <div class="collection-top-border border-ny-red pl-lg-2 pr-lg-2"></div> </div> </div> <div class="container position-relative pt-xs-6 pt-lg-8"> <div class="border-wrap border-ny-red pl-lg-2 pr-lg-2"></div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 col-lg-4 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/04/20/moon-over-miami/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/pinckney_2-042017.jpg?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/pinckney_2-042017.jpg?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/pinckney_2-042017.jpg?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/pinckney_2-042017.jpg?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/pinckney_2-042017.jpg?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Darryl Pinckney</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Moon Over Miami</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">Barry Jenkins’s film <em>Moonlight</em> isn’t trying to be realistic about anything, even as it confounds what we expect from stories about young black men, starting with the film’s texture, its intricate soundtrack, tantric pace, and beauty frame by frame. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> April 20, 2017 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-4 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2015/01/28/birdman-nightmare-broadway/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Birdman-still1.jpg?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Birdman-still1.jpg?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Birdman-still1.jpg?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Birdman-still1.jpg?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Birdman-still1.jpg?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="Michael Keaton as Riggan Thomson in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, 2014" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Francine Prose</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Birdman’s Comic Horror</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt"><em>Birdman</em> charges forward, headlong and without stopping, alternately scourging and exalting its audience with the genuine pain and the holy-fool ridiculousness of a “washed-up” former superhero. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> January 28, 2015 </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-4 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1988/02/18/born-too-late/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1988/02/Last-Emperor.png?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1988/02/Last-Emperor.png?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1988/02/Last-Emperor.png?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1988/02/Last-Emperor.png?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1988/02/Last-Emperor.png?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>John K. Fairbank</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Born Too Late</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt"><em>The Last Emperor</em> is a spectacular film photographed in brilliant color. It is also a moral drama with controversial political overtones of great ambiguity. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> February 18, 1988 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-4 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1994/04/21/a-dissent-on-schindlers-list/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1994/04/Schindlers-List.png?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1994/04/Schindlers-List.png?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1994/04/Schindlers-List.png?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1994/04/Schindlers-List.png?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1994/04/Schindlers-List.png?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Jason Epstein</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">A Dissent on ‘Schindler’s List’</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">Oskar Schindler was an exotic exception, and Stephen Spielberg lets viewers take comfort in his virtuous behavior, but the Holocaust raises terrible questions about humanity, and it is these questions that the director did not ask. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> April 21, 1994 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-4 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1985/04/11/b-flat-movie/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1985/04/amadeus.png?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1985/04/amadeus.png?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1985/04/amadeus.png?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1985/04/amadeus.png?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1985/04/amadeus.png?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Robert Craft</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">B-flat Movie</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">To give <em>Amadeus</em> every benefit of the doubt, we might assume that the presentation of Mozart as a fool is an intended irony, and congratulate the director for having chosen the best way to fail with an insoluble problem. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> April 11, 1985 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-4 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1979/08/16/letter-from-manhattan/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1979/08/woody-allen_1979-08-16.gif?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1979/08/woody-allen_1979-08-16.gif?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1979/08/woody-allen_1979-08-16.gif?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1979/08/woody-allen_1979-08-16.gif?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1979/08/woody-allen_1979-08-16.gif?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Joan Didion</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Letter from ‘Manhattan’</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">The characters in <em>Manhattan</em> and <em>Annie Hall</em> and <em>Interiors</em> are, with one exception, presented as adults, but their concerns and conversations are those of clever children acting out a yearbook fantasy of adult life. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> August 16, 1979 issue </p> </a> </article> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container 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May 25, 2023 issue </p> </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-collection"> <div class="article-collection-inner w-100 mb-xs-6 mb-lg-12"> <div class="container position-relative px-0"> <div class="collection-top text-center"> <div class="collection-title h2 pt-xs-2 pb-xs-1 pl-xs-4 pr-xs-4 bg-ny-red color-light-blue d-inline-block mb-0">Gumshoes, Mercenaries, and Gentlemen Detectives</div> <div class="collection-top-border border-ny-red pl-lg-2 pr-lg-2"></div> </div> </div> <div class="container position-relative pt-xs-6 pt-lg-8"> <div class="border-wrap border-ny-red pl-lg-2 pr-lg-2"></div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/10/27/raymond-chandler-philip-marlowes-revolution/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/BIG-SLEEP_BELOW-TEXT2050.png?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/BIG-SLEEP_BELOW-TEXT2050.png?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/BIG-SLEEP_BELOW-TEXT2050.png?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/BIG-SLEEP_BELOW-TEXT2050.png?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/BIG-SLEEP_BELOW-TEXT2050.png?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>John Banville</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Philip Marlowe’s Revolution</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">“Being himself a kind of drifter, Raymond Chandler knew whereof he wrote. The mean streets down which his protagonist Philip Marlowe ventures stalwartly and alone mark the liminal frontiers between wealth and indigence, between law and some kind of order, between the city and the jungle.” </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> October 27, 2016 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2014/06/18/manchette-into-muck/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Like-a-Sniper-Lining-Up-His-Shot.png?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Like-a-Sniper-Lining-Up-His-Shot.png?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Like-a-Sniper-Lining-Up-His-Shot.png?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Like-a-Sniper-Lining-Up-His-Shot.png?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Like-a-Sniper-Lining-Up-His-Shot.png?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>James Sallis</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Manchette: Into the Muck</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">Jean-Patrick Manchette wanted to demonstrate that the crime novel could be “the great moral literature of our time.” </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> June 18, 2014 </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2002/02/14/mystery-man/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2002/02/the-glass-key-1st-ed-dust-jacket-54c6c5-1024-e1706646743982.png?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2002/02/the-glass-key-1st-ed-dust-jacket-54c6c5-1024-e1706646743982.png?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2002/02/the-glass-key-1st-ed-dust-jacket-54c6c5-1024-e1706646743982.png?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2002/02/the-glass-key-1st-ed-dust-jacket-54c6c5-1024-e1706646743982.png?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2002/02/the-glass-key-1st-ed-dust-jacket-54c6c5-1024-e1706646743982.png?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Margaret Atwood</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Mystery Man</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">In a “clues” novel, everything depends on who is where; in a Dashiell Hammett one, it was more likely to be who was who: disguises and false names were used, dark mean streets were prowled, cars were driven at speed, people blew in from elsewhere and hid out and skipped town. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> February 14, 2002 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1978/12/21/the-christie-mystery/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1976/04/agatha-christie_1976-04-29.gif?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1976/04/agatha-christie_1976-04-29.gif?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1976/04/agatha-christie_1976-04-29.gif?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1976/04/agatha-christie_1976-04-29.gif?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/1976/04/agatha-christie_1976-04-29.gif?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Julian Symons</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">The Christie Mystery</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">“Behind the middle-class English lady, remote and shy, whose perfectly appropriate occupation seemed to be the pouring of tea from a silver jug into thin china cups on a green lawn, was somebody else, somebody perhaps not so nice but more interesting. This other Agatha Christie knew a lot about poisons.” </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> December 21, 1978 issue </p> </a> </article> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container position-relative"> <div class="collection-bottom text-center"> <div class="pt-xs-4"></div> <div class="collection-bottom-border border-ny-red pl-lg-2 pr-lg-2"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-collection"> <div class="article-collection-inner w-100 mb-xs-6 mb-lg-12"> <div class="container position-relative px-0"> <div class="collection-top text-center"> <div class="collection-title h2 pt-xs-2 pb-xs-1 pl-xs-4 pr-xs-4 bg-ny-red color-yellow d-inline-block mb-0">On Strike!</div> <div class="collection-top-border border-ny-red pl-lg-2 pr-lg-2"></div> </div> </div> <div class="container position-relative pt-xs-6 pt-lg-8"> <div class="border-wrap border-ny-red pl-lg-2 pr-lg-2"></div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/03/01/a-wakeup-call-from-hell/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Glickman202303_2.jpg?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Glickman202303_2.jpg?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Glickman202303_2.jpg?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Glickman202303_2.jpg?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Glickman202303_2.jpg?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Willa Glickman</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">‘A Wakeup Call from Hell’</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">By striking for safe staffing levels, New York City nurses joined a wave of labor unrest that has swept the health care industry in response to Covid-19. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> March 1, 2023 </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/02/08/tenant-debtor-worker-student/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Appel202302_11.jpg?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Appel202302_11.jpg?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Appel202302_11.jpg?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Appel202302_11.jpg?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Appel202302_11.jpg?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Hannah Appel</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Tenant, Debtor, Worker, Student</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">In their historic strike, academic workers at the University of California took on one of the biggest employers, landlords, and financial actors in the state. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> February 8, 2023 </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2022/12/23/working-in-their-sleep/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Driver_Sanders11.jpg?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Driver_Sanders11.jpg?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Driver_Sanders11.jpg?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Driver_Sanders11.jpg?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Driver_Sanders11.jpg?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Alice Driver</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Working in Their Sleep</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">Meatpacking workers in Arkansas, grieving loved ones lost to Covid and struggling to pay medical bills, are organizing for justice from their employer. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> December 23, 2022 </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2022/10/05/ecuador-historic-strike/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Sempertegui_2022105_1.jpg?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Sempertegui_2022105_1.jpg?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Sempertegui_2022105_1.jpg?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Sempertegui_2022105_1.jpg?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Sempertegui_2022105_1.jpg?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-ny-red hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"> <span class="color-ny-red text-small hover-text-ny-red semi-bold"><strong>Andrea Sempértegui</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-ny-red">Ecuador’s Historic Strike</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">With this summer’s strike, the country’s powerful Indigenous movement united two agendas long in tension: resistance to austerity and opposition to natural resource extraction.  </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> October 5, 2022 </p> </a> </article> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container position-relative"> <div class="collection-bottom text-center"> <div class="pt-xs-4"></div> <div class="collection-bottom-border border-ny-red pl-lg-2 pr-lg-2"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-collection"> <div class="article-collection-inner w-100 mb-xs-6 mb-lg-12"> <div class="container position-relative px-0"> <div class="collection-top text-center"> <div class="collection-title h2 pt-xs-2 pb-xs-1 pl-xs-4 pr-xs-4 bg-yellow color-green d-inline-block mb-0">‘A Little Patch of Yellow Wall’</div> <div class="collection-top-border border-yellow pl-lg-2 pr-lg-2"></div> </div> </div> <div class="container position-relative pt-xs-6 pt-lg-8"> <div class="border-wrap border-yellow pl-lg-2 pr-lg-2"></div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/02/07/vermeer-first-among-equals/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/koerner_1-020719.jpg?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/koerner_1-020719.jpg?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/koerner_1-020719.jpg?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/koerner_1-020719.jpg?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/koerner_1-020719.jpg?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="Johannes Vermeer: The Lacemaker, 9 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches, circa 1669–1670" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-green hover-text-green semi-bold"> <span class="color-green text-small hover-text-green semi-bold"><strong>Joseph Leo Koerner</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-green">First Among Equals</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">“Vermeer prompts us to look at his handiwork. In the foreground, white and red paint—conjuring threads escaping from the woman’s sewing cushion—appears as if dribbled on the canvas.” </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> February 7, 2019 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/12/22/mysterious-women-vermeer/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/bell_1-122211.jpg?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/bell_1-122211.jpg?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/bell_1-122211.jpg?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/bell_1-122211.jpg?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/bell_1-122211.jpg?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="Johannes Vermeer: The Music Lesson, circa 1662–1663 " > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-green hover-text-green semi-bold"> <span class="color-green text-small hover-text-green semi-bold"><strong>Julian Bell</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-green">The Mysterious Women of Vermeer</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">Vermeer has a mind-boggling technique for transferring visual sensations from eye to canvas as if without the hand’s intervention. Color has somehow wafted down, as leaves might on water, and cohered automatically into threads and ringlets and cushions. </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> December 22, 2011 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2001/05/31/camera-work/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2001/05/maxresdefault.png?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2001/05/maxresdefault.png?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2001/05/maxresdefault.png?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2001/05/maxresdefault.png?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2001/05/maxresdefault.png?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-green hover-text-green semi-bold"> <span class="color-green text-small hover-text-green semi-bold"><strong>Sanford Schwartz</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-green">Camera Work</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">“To read about Johannes Vermeer and to look at his pictures is sometimes to think you have entered a fairy-tale domain. There’s an Arabian Nights flavor about a painter who leaves so few traces of himself.” </p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> May 31, 2001 issue </p> </a> <div class="rule-article d-lg-none"></div> </article> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-3 mb-xs-3 mb-lg-12"> <article> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/11/11/vermeer/" class="article-card"> <div class="small-thumb-mobile ml-xs-3 ml-lg-0 float-right float-lg-none d-inline-block"> <figure class="border-light-gray embed-responsive-3by2 embed-responsive mb-0"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/800px-Johannes_Vermeer_-_Het_melkmeisje_-_Google_Art_Project.png?w=298" srcset="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/800px-Johannes_Vermeer_-_Het_melkmeisje_-_Google_Art_Project.png?w=92 92w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/800px-Johannes_Vermeer_-_Het_melkmeisje_-_Google_Art_Project.png?w=184 184w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/800px-Johannes_Vermeer_-_Het_melkmeisje_-_Google_Art_Project.png?w=298 298w, https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/800px-Johannes_Vermeer_-_Het_melkmeisje_-_Google_Art_Project.png?w=596 596w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 92px, 298px" class="mw-100 embed-responsive-item object-fit-cover" alt="" > </figure> </div> <div class="text-small mb-xs-1 color-green hover-text-green semi-bold"> <span class="color-green text-small hover-text-green semi-bold"><strong>Wisława Szymborska</strong></span>, translated from the Polish by <span class="color-green text-small hover-text-green semi-bold"><strong>Clare Cavanagh</strong></span> and <span class="color-green text-small hover-text-green semi-bold"><strong>Stanisław Barańczak</strong></span> </div> <p class="h4 d-block mb-xs-1 card-title card-title-green">Vermeer</p> <p class="text-small mb-xs-1 article-card-excerpt">a poem</p> <p class="text-label color-gray"> November 11, 2010 issue 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