The New York Review of Books - Selection of Articles from 2013 issues

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS As we come to the end of The New York Review’s fiftieth year, we take a look back at 2013 through some of the pieces published in our pages – one article or post for each week of the year. Many thanks for your continued interest and support, and best wishes for the holidays and 2014.

JANUARY Elaine Blair: Single Women and the Sitcom Steve Coll: ‘Disturbing’ and ‘Misleading’ Zero Dark Thirty Avishai Margalit: Palestine: How Bad Was British Rule? Oliver Sacks: Speak, Memory Yasmine El Rashidi: Egypt: The Rule of the Brotherhood

FEBRUARY Diane Ravitch: Holding Education Hostage Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013) Colm Tóibín: The Sweet Troubles of Proust Michael Lewis: The Way They Live Now

MARCH Helen Epstein: Lead Poisoning: The Scandal István Deák: Could Stalin Have Been Stopped? Alma Guillermoprieto: The Last Caudillo Darryl Pinckney: On James Baldwin Ian Johnson: Will the Chinese Be Supreme?

APRIL Pankaj Mishra: Asia: ‘The Explosive Transformation’ Marcia Angell: What is a Good Life? Hugh Eakin: The Unfinished Race John Gray: The Real Karl Marx Martin Filler: MoMA: A Needless Act of Destruction MAY Andrew O'Hagan: Maggie James Gleick: Time Regained! Julian Bell: The Angel of the Bizarre Paul Krugman: The False Claims for Austerity Gabriel Winslow-Yost: A Mind Among Pigs Anna Somers Cocks: The Coming Death of Venice? JUNE Jonathan Galassi: The Dreams of Italo Calvino April Bernard: Sylvia Plath: Rage and Laughter Hermione Lee: Willia Cather: A Hidden Voice Alfred Brendel: A Pianist’s A–V JULY John Paul Stevens: The Right to Vote Martin Scorsese: The Language of Cinema Suketu Mehta: Brazil’s Violent Favelas Charles Simic:  Summertime AUGUST Kirill Gerstein: Tchaikovsky’s Wrong Note Ian Buruma: The Man Who Got It Right Suzy Hansen: Turkey: Women Strike Back David Cole: Syria and the Constitution SEPTEMBER Christopher Benfey: What Seamus Heaney Taught Me Cass Sunstein: It Captures Your Mind Tim Flannery: They’re Taking Over! Amartya Sen: India’s Women: The Mixed Truth

OCTOBER Ingrid Rowland: The Local, Universal Master Zadie Smith: Love in the Gardens Tim Parks: Trapped Inside the Novel Alan Rusbridger: The Snowden Leaks

DECEMBER Peter Brown: Rome: Sex & Freedom John Banville: Learning a Lot About Isaiah Berlin