THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Ben Tarnoff on Silicon Valley’s paterfamilias, Christopher de Bellaigue on Iran’s political future, Frances Wilson on Liza (with a “Z”), Christopher Tayler on Ben Lerner, Lynn Hunt on Marat’s afterlife, Charlie Lee on John Gregory Dunne’s descent into Vegas, Adam Hochschild on the dream of the Bundists, Nina Siegal on the real-life Hoosier Indiana Jones, Louisa Lim on contemporary Hong Kong literature, poems by Dan Chiasson and Emily Berry, and much more.

Whither the Nerd-Bully?

Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became.

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World by Anupreeta Das

Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates

Iran’s New Winter

The US-Israeli war against Iran, far from encouraging a popular uprising, has strengthened the regime’s grip and set back the cause of Iranian freedom indefinitely.

Don’t Call It Entertainment

In Everthing Is Now, J. Hoberman chronicles a radical avant-garde’s attempts to jostle New York City out of its postwar complacency and moral retrenchment.

Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop by J. Hoberman

The Sage of Washington

Walter Lippmann was the most influential political commentator of his generation, but behind his preternatural confidence was a far more complicated and unsettled character.

Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography by Tom Arnold-Forster