Matthew Howard

New York Review of Books — Yasmine El Rashidi has been contributing to The New York Review since January 26, 2011, the day after mass protests engulfed Egypt, when we published the first of her gripping dispatches from Cairo's Tahrir Square.

New York Review of Books — In our Saturday newsletter, the editors typically talk to one of our contributors about an article published during the previous week. This weekend, for Father's Day, we instead take a look back at several recent pieces in which writers consider their relationships with their fathers.

New York Review of Books — Fifty-five years ago, The New York Review published its first issue. To celebrate the magazine's emerald anniversary, in 2018 we will be going through the archives year by year, featuring some of the notable, important, and sometimes forgotten pieces that appeared in its pages.

New York Review of Books — Throughout its first fifty years, The New York Review of Books has asked many questions: What is Art? How Did it Happen? Where Do We Go From Here? Yonder Shakespeare, Who Is He? Tennis Anyone?

New York Review of Books — The Irish writer and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, who died on August 30 in Dublin, was for the last forty years both a contributor to The New York Review of Books and one of its frequent subjects.

New York Review of Books — In honor of the birthday of Czesław Miłosz (born in Lithuania on June 30, 1911) we present a selection of his work from the Review's archives.

New York Review of Books — Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) was a Russian poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad, he moved to the United States in 1972 following his expulsion from the Soviet Union. His poetry collections include A Part of Speech (1980) and To Urania (1988); his essay collections include Less Than One (1986) and Watermark (1992).

Mother Jones — “The best thing I read this week was an essay by the great film editor Walter Murch (The Conversation, The Godfather Part II, The English Patient). Here’s how I found it.”