You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Unless It’s a New Rolling Stones Biography
THE ROLLING STONES: The Biography, by Bob Spitz Last December, two days before Keith Richards’s 82nd birthday, it was reported...
7 ‘Body Types’ From the Met’s New Fashion Exhibition, Explained
Here’s a pop quiz: What do all 17 curatorial departments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art have in common? It...
Why Go to the Gym When You Can Work Out in the Park?
Working out indoors can be uninspiring: the fluorescent lights, the gym playlist running on loop, the same view every day....
The Cult Music Documentary ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ Turns Middle-Age
In the early evening of May 31, 1986, in a sprawling, oil-streaked parking lot in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, heavy...
The Best Books of the Year (So Far)
Fiction | Nonfiction We’re a third of the way through 2026 and we at The Book Review have already written...
By Week’s End, Trump’s War Will Be Plainly Illegal
President Trump’s war with Iran is almost certainly illegal: Congress hasn’t declared war or authorized it by statute, and it...
The ‘Perfect Birthplace for a Writer’? She Says It’s West Virginia.
SMALL TOWN GIRLS: A Writer’s Memoir, By Jayne Anne Phillips Most fiction writers have given so much of their own...
The Prepper Delusion
At 4:30 a.m., our dog howled. He heard the emergency sirens before we did. Through the window, my wife spotted...
Zoë Kravitz and Harry Styles? Weren’t They Just With …
After Zoë Kravitz was spotted in London last week wearing what looked like an engagement ring and kissing Harry Styles,...
Should My Bag Really Match My Shoes?
Does my handbag need to match my shoes, my coat or what? Does that rule even matter anymore, and if...
For a Dance Battle on a New Stage, She Decided to Be ‘Fearless’
“Usually, when I walk in rooms, people are afraid of me,” the choreographer Courtney Washington said recently. She was talking...
Inside a Once-Grand Building That Housed the Vulnerable for a Century
The hulking brick building on 30th Street and First Avenue in Manhattan was conceived with the best of intentions. Proposed...
For the Modern C.E.O., It’s All About Being ‘Resilient’
One word keeps cropping up in boardrooms and on earnings calls: resilience. Chief executives are using it to describe how...
Immaculate Wilderness, Uncertain Future: Paddling the Boundary Waters
Saganaga Lake was so calm that I could see boulders 10 feet below the surface. The water reflected a mirror...
Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone?
In 1981, Donald Barthelme published “Challenge,” a funny and weirdly prescient short story, in The New Yorker. Its premise was...
