Category Archives: Books

How the Real Jane Roe Shaped the Abortion Wars

September 20, 2021 New Yorker cover
September 20, 2021

How the Real Jane Roe Shaped the Abortion Wars
by Margaret Talbot

The all-too-human plaintiff of Roe v. Wade captured the messy contradictions hidden by a polarizing debate.

Tabula Rasa: Volume Two

April 19, 2021 New Yorker cover
April 19, 2021

Tabula Rasa: Volume Two
by John McPhee

A project meant not to end.

Leonard Bernstein Through His Daughter’s Eyes

June 25, 2018

Books
Leonard Bernstein Through His Daughter’s Eyes
On the centenary of his birth, a memoir captures what it’s like being raised by a man with mythic successes and long-held secrets.
by David Denby

Saint Pauli

April 17, 2017

Books
Saint Pauli
Pauli Murray was an architect of the civil-rights struggle—and the women’s movement. Why haven’t you heard of her?
by Kathryn Schulz

Heroes and Zeroes: When central bankers rescued, then ruined, the world.

February 2, 2009
February 2, 2009

Heroes and Zeroes
When central bankers rescued, then ruined, the world.

by John Lanchester