The New York Review of Books; April 23, 2026

The New York Review of Books is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs. Published in New York City, it is inspired by the idea that the discussion of important books is an indispensable literary activity.

In this issue: 

• Anonymous: Watching the war from my roof in Tehran
• Alice Kaplan: Hollywood's fake nuremberg
• David Cole: American citizenship on trial
• Colm Tóibín: Should Ireland be united?
• Kathryn Hughes: Richard Holmes's surprisingly modern Tennyson
• Herimoine Lee: Virginia Woolf and her girlfriends
• Brenda Wineapple: Nicholas Lemann's Family Romance