THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…

If These Walls Could Talk

In A House for Miss Pauline, the Jamaican novelist Diana McCaulay examines her family’s shadowy history by telling the story of a woman who builds her house with the remains of the manor of a former slave plantation.

A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay

A Bitter Winter in Ukraine

Four years after their full-scale invasion, the Russians are trying to freeze Ukraine into submission by relentlessly attacking the country’s energy grid.

A Real Live Socialist

What Bernie Sanders brought to the job of mayor of Burlington and what he did with it help explain what matters to him and how he fits into American political argument.

Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician and the Transformation of One American Place by Dan Chiasson