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Zora Neale Hurston's chosen  people, what a long-unpublished novel reveals about her magnificent obsession, Louis Menand. The New Yorker, January 20, 2025.

Charlotte's Place: Living with the ghost of a cinéma-vérité (direct cinema) pioneer, Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, January 27, 2025. Charlotte Zwerin. Partnership with Albert and David Maysles. 

Many of the Maysleses' documentaries focus on art, artists and musicians. The Maysleses documented The Beatles' first visit to the United States in 1964, and a 1965 conceptual art project by Yoko Ono called "Cut Piece" in which she sat on the stage of Carnegie Hall while audience members cut off her clothing with scissors.

Several Maysles films document art projects by Christo and Jeanne-Claude over a three-decade period, from 1974 when Christo's Valley Curtain was nominated for an Academy Award, to 2005 when The Gates (started in 1979 and completed by Albert after David's death) headlined New York's Tribeca Film Festival. Other Maysles subjects include Marlon Brando, Truman Capote, Vladimir Horowitz and Seiji Ozawa.

Hold Your Tongue: can the world's most populous country protect its languages, Ganesh Devy. In The New Yorker, November 25, 2024, p. 18. India.

Gaining Control: the frenemies who fought to bring contraception to this country, Margaret Talbot, book review: The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control To America, Stephanie Groton, c. 2024. The New Yorker, November 25, 2024, p. 58.

Alan Hollinghurst's Lost England, Charles McGrath, from The Atlantic, November, 2024, p. 80. In his new novel, te present isn't much better than the past -- and it's a lot less sexy. Hollinghurst is often called the best living writer of English prose.

Percy in the Ruins: The Moviegoer and Other Novels, 1961 - 1971, by Walker Percy, edited by Pal Elie, Library of American, 983 pages, $45. Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2024, p. 91. Euripides.

Mornings At Goldeneye: Ian Flemings: The Complete Man, by Nicholas Shakespeare. HarpersCollins Publishers, 864 pages, $45. Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2024, p. 93. James Bond.

Poet of the Prairie: Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather, by Benjamin Taylor. Viking, 192 pages, $29. Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2024, p.88.

Fools in Love, Andrew Katzenstein. Book review, several books. Hollywood Screwball Comedy; Becoming Nick and Nora; The Films of Preston Sturges. The New York Review, September 19, 2024, p. 59.

Worms' Work, Jenny Uglow. Book review, Silk: A World History, by Aarathi Prasad, Williams Morrow, 293 pp. $32.50. An essay on silk, The New York Review, September 19, 2024, p. 54.

Kamala's Moment, Fintan O'Toole, an essay, The New York Review, September 19, 2024, p. 35.

Friend of the Family, Ruth Bernard Yeazell, The New York Review, November 21, 2024, p. 17. Consuelo Vanderbilt. Great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Book review: Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse, Farrar, Straus and Girous, 311 pp., $32.00.

Hawthorne's Mood Swings, Tim Parks, The New York Review, November 21, 2024, p. 49. Book review: The Life of the Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dale Salwak. Wiley Blackwell, 206 pp. $24.95.

The Workings of the Spirit, The New York Review, June 6, 2024. Christianity, AND, Mexico's Politics of Bitterness, Sarah Birke and Carlos Bravo Regidor, The New York Review, June 6, 2024.

Let There Be Light, Colin B. Bailey, The New York Review, June 6, 2024. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

No Comfort, Fintin O'Toole, The New York Review, June 6, 2024. Shakespeare.

Orwell's Escape, The Atlantic, May 2024, Stephen Metcalf.

Laugh Riot, The New York Review, March 21, 2024, Fintan O'Toole.

The Party Line, The New York Review, April 4, 2024, March 21, 2024, Jonathan Steele. 

Every Creeping Thing, The New York Review, March 21, 2024, Jessica Riskin.

Diabolical Fame, The New York Review, March 21, 2024, Frances Wilson.

Thus I Lived With Word, The New York Review, April 4, 2024,P hilliop Lopate.

The Way She Was, The New York Review, April 4, 2024, Daphne Merkin.

Small Island, The New York Review, March 21, 2024, Gary Younge.

The Lost World, The New York Review, April 4, 2024, Miranda Seymour.

A Hectic Life, The New York Review, April 4, 2024, Miranda Seymour.

The Trouble With Reality, The New York Review, March 21, 2024, Meghan O'Gieblyn.

Uninhibited Questions, The New York Review, December 21, 2023, Elaine Blair.

ALeaf or Two from Whitman, The New York Review, December 21, 2023, Christopher Benfey.

What Happens at the Edges? , The New York Review, December 21, 2023, Susan Tallman,

Reimagining al-Andalus, The New York Review, February 22, 2024, Robyn Creswell.

Stifled Rage, The New York Review, April 18, 2024, Brenda Wineapple.

A Hell of a Romance, The New York Review, April 18, 2024, Andrew Delbanco.

Lording It, The New Yorker, March 4, 2024, Anthony Lane,  

The Man Who Died For Liberal Arts, The Atlantic, May, 2024, David Shribman.

The Unwilling Celebrity, The New York Review, April 18, 2024, Geoffrey Wheatcroft.