THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Joyce Carol Oates on serial killers and toxic metals, Fintan O’Toole on Trump’s domestic army, David Shulman on the second Nakba, Regina Marler on the Brothers Grimm, Michelle Nijhuis on what we save, Peter Canby on the murder of a priest, Ruth Bernard Yeazell on Albert Barnes’s art sense, Ian Johnson on Xi père, Lola Seaton on Sheila Heti’s deceptive ease, James Gleick on AI nonsense, poems by Milan Děžinský and Devon Walker-Figueroa, and much more.

‘I Am the Heir to Delacroix’

Jack Whitten’s brilliantly restless innovation is a rigorous interrogation and a surging expansion of what painting can do.

Jack Whitten: The Messenger an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, March 23–August 2, 2025

Jack Whitten: Notes from the Woodshed, Second Edition edited by Katy Siegel

The Parrot in the Machine

The artificial intelligence industry depends on plagiarism, mimicry, and exploited labor, not intelligence.

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood by James Boyle

Locked Up by Erdogan

For his work as an activist and philanthropist, Osman Kavala has been unjustly imprisoned in Turkey for seven and a half years.