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Our 11/19 issue is now online, with @fotoole on Andy Burnham’s communion, @mrkocnnll on JD Vance’s overweening ambition, @MelissEAnderson on Tally Brown’s underground, Vivian Gornick on affordable housing, @brhodes on Biden’s dereliction of Gaza, and more. go.nybooks.com/3WhuTWw
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A blistering essay from Ben Rhodes, drawing on Akbar Shahid Ahmed's book on Gaza.
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“The Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is perhaps the greatest chronicler of that era of scale, which stretched across the long twentieth century and only now shows the first signs of receding.” —@billmckibben go.nybooks.com/4eRVtvJ
“New York City, as photographed by Baldwin Lee in the latter half of the 1970s, looks as immemorially still as cities do in photographs made over a century earlier.” —Joel Smit go.nybooks.com/4idQEh5
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Every so often there is a piece of writing that you immediately know will be read for decades into the future. Suspect @brhodes on @AkbarSAhmed is one of them. nybooks.com/articles/2026/11…
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.@brhodes's conclusion to his book review of @AkbarSAhmed 's Crossing the Red Line is on point. Those former Biden admin officials who were complicit in Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza have no business being part of any future administration. nybooks.com/articles/2026/11…
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"Picture those officials sitting in windowless rooms without their phones, incapable of reaching a formal conclusion that a single war crime was committed in Gaza while the world watched war crimes live-streamed on theirs."
Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) on Joe Biden’s dereliction of Gaza go.nybooks.com/4A1ftnT
Next Wednesday, join Daniel Mendelsohn (@DAMendelsohnNYC) for a three-part seminar on unrequited love in #JaneAusten’s Persuasion. Sign up at: go.nybooks.com/47FE9WY
“Medical history is littered with stories of drugs that were thought to be wonderful when they first appeared and were quickly found to have dark and terrible effects.” —an interview with Gavin Francis go.nybooks.com/4zZe8xP
“Lebanon’s Jews were not Israelis-in-waiting, estranged from their proper national home,” writes Joelle M. Abi-Rached. “They were Lebanese Jews, and Lebanon’s failure to protect them does not erase that history.” go.nybooks.com/4eBf5nK
“Signally missing from these portraits of George Sand, the biographies as well as the biopics, is much sense of her significance as one of the most critically influential and commercially successful writers of the nineteenth century.” —Kathryn Hughes go.nybooks.com/4stYxUE
“The magic of Vermeer resides in the paintings—their peculiar way of being at once sociable and silent, of making the fall of light feel both transcendent and palpable.” —Susan Tallman go.nybooks.com/4dZ3QFA
Dan Chiasson on Bernie Sanders’s embrace of emergent media go.nybooks.com/4jHSsBz
The latest dispatch from our Art Editor, Leanne Shapton (@shaptonia) go.nybooks.com/48ldcYP
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Likewise @mrkocnnll: nybooks.com/articles/2026/11…
Verlyn Klinkenborg on sticking to the rivers that you’re used to go.nybooks.com/4jHsSN4
Erin Maglaque on a medieval Me Too moment go.nybooks.com/4zhHRC8
Vivian Gornick on Mary K. Simkhovitch and the history of affordable housing go.nybooks.com/4zbDuIN
Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) on Joe Biden’s dereliction of Gaza go.nybooks.com/4A1ftnT