New York Review Books Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/new-york-review-books/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:18:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png New York Review Books Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/new-york-review-books/ 32 32 The Netanya-who?s: Gossip and Other Kinds of History https://www.publicbooks.org/the-netanya-whos-gossip-and-other-kinds-of-history/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:00:24 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45127 Benzion Netanyahu—father of the former prime minister—is not the protagonist; rather, it is his scholarship and the practice of history itself.[none-for-homepage]

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]]> On Our Nightstands: July 2021 https://www.publicbooks.org/on-our-nightstands-july-2021/ Fri, 30 Jul 2021 15:00:10 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=44531 A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month.

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]]> What Essays Are, and What Essayists Do https://www.publicbooks.org/what-essays-are-and-what-essayists-do/ Tue, 08 Jan 2019 16:00:25 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=25576 There are no good books about essays, only essays. The first practitioner of the form, the 16th-century French politician and minor aristocrat Michel de ...

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