‘Capitalism and Its Critics’ by John Cassidy
Ben Giles illustrates Jennifer Szalai’s review of a book by the New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy which plumbs more than two centuries’ worth of grievances about our global financial order.
‘Enough is Enuf’ by Gabe Henry and ‘Pronoun Trouble’ by John McWhorter
Juhi Vishnani and Shiva Nallaperumal / Nvmbr illustrate adjacent premises of two new books examining efforts to standardize English orthography and the pronouns at the heart of our culture wars, finding that spelling and usage have never conformed to any rules.
Jillian Tamaki embroiders A.O. Scott's review of The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing.
Tom Etherington illustrates The Weight of Nature by Clayton Page Aldern
Alex Merto illustrates The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
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Public/Official illustrates Language City: The Fight To Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues In New York by Ross Perlin
Javier Jaen illustrates One Nation Under Guns by Dominic Erdozian and What We’ve Become by Jonathan M. Metzl
John Gall illustrates Mozart In Motion by Patrick Mackie and Schoenberg: Why He Matters by Harvey Sachs
Lourenco Providencia illustrates The NYT Book Review’s 2023 Translation issue cover (print only).
Ben Giles illustrates Unscripted: The Epic Battle For a Media Legacy and the Redstone Family Empire by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams
Na Kim illustrates the cover for the 2022 Book Review poetry issue—the whole of which is worth some extended interrogation.
Eddie Guy on Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live by Nicholas A. Christakis
Bendik Kaltenborn on Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History by Kurt Andersen
Weather by Claudia Rankine on the cover of the Book Review, June 21, 2020
Adam Maida on The Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell + The New Class War by Michael Lind
Robert Beatty on The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace Wells + Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich
Armando Veve on Altered States: Michael Pollan on writing while on drugs; Jonathan Lethem on fictional drugs
Jessica Svendsen on 21 Lessons For the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
Na Kim on Why ‘To Kill a Mockingbird Matters’ by Tom Santoprieto + Atticus Finch by Joseph Crespino
Gabriel Alcala on Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker + It’s Better Than It Looks by Gregg Easterbrook
Erik Carter on The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution by Ganesh Sitaraman
Eric Yahnker on Raising Trump by Ivana Trump + The Kardashians by Jerry Oppenheimer
Cleon Peterson on East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity” by Phillipe Sands
Michael DeForge on The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Mark Pernice on Black Hole Blues by Janna Levin + The Universe In Your Hand by Christophe Galfard + Seven Brief Lessons In Physics by Carlo Rovelli
