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Mary McCarthy
July 5, 2024
Michael Kimmage
The New York Intellectuals’ Battle of the Sexes
Norman Mailer’s generation learned to “write like men.” But their female contemporaries from Mary McCarthy to Diana Trilling pioneered a more enduring style.
April 11, 2018
Michelle Dean
Pauline Kael’s Long Delayed Big Break
Through years of setbacks and discouragement, Kael insisted that movies should be free from stereotypes, unpretentious, and fun.
December 8, 2017
MagazineMichelle Dean
The Company She Kept
Elizabeth Hardwick’s argumentative life among the New York Intellectuals
May 30, 2013
Saul Austerlitz
A New Movie Perpetuates the Pernicious Myth of Hannah Arendt
May 20, 2013
Gabriel Debenedetti
What Hard News Misses
50 Years of Foreign Reporting from the NYRB
May 4, 2012
Jed Perl
The Middle Distance
July 13, 2011
Franklin Foer
The Libelous Truth
February 10, 2011
Cynthia Ozick
Lasting Man
May 21, 2010
Leon Wieseltier
Family Business
March 19, 2010
Martin Peretz
I Know I Am Harping On The President’s Israel Policy. But That’s Exactly What I Should Be Doing And What I Aim To Do.
October 5, 2009
Adam Kirsch
The Great Disconcerting Wipeout
March 26, 2008
Jed Perl
The Troubadour Intellectual
October 2, 2006
James Wolcott
Meow Mix
Mommies, mommies, mommies.
November 3, 2003
Zadie Smith
The Limited Circle Is Pure
July 12, 1999
Jed Perl
Eggs a la Nabocoque
December 6, 1948
Max Lerner
The Historian, the Novelist, and the Faith