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For over 50 years, The New York Review of Books has been the place where the world’s leading authors, scientists, educators, artists, and political leaders turn when they wish to engage in a spirited debate on literature, politics, art, and ideas with a small but influential audience that welcomes the challenge. Each issue addresses some of the most passionate political and cultural controversies of the day, and reviews the most engrossing new books and the ideas that illuminate them. Get The New York Review of Books digital magazine subscription today.

The New York Review of Books

Contributors

Bewitched by Goethe

Farewell Poem • for Dmitry Golynko

Saving Lives and Making a Killing

From Russia, with Love

Seeing Through It All

The Frontier Justice

History Bright and Dark

The Inventor of Magical Realism

The Fight for Fair Wages

The Extinct

At Odds with Two Worlds

Loot Under the Lindens

‘Tell Your Story, Omar’

The Deer

Shifting Sands

NEW BOOKS • FROM UNIVERSITY PRESSES

The Documentarian

Blues, Grays & Greenbacks

The Limits of Language

Letters