THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – NOVEMBER 5, 2026

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Sue Halpern on fascist dorks, Colm Tóibín on La Bola Negra, Kathryn Hughes on George Sand, Jeffrey Toobin on the fall of the Voting Rights Act, Colin Thubron on saving the great cats, Nicolas Niarchos on America’s disastrous Yemen policy, Julian Gewirtz on AI supremacists, Susan Tallman on the elusive Vermeer, James Gleick on the duplicitous chatbots, Adam Thirlwell on Wallace Shawn’s genius, poems by David Plante, Claire DeVoogd, and Shane McCrae, and much more.

The Plot to Delete Democracy

In The Nerd Reich Gil Durán shows how Silicon Valley billionaires have pushed a fringe ideology—what is popularly called techno-fascism but is closer in aspiration to straight-up totalitarianism—into the affairs of state.

The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by Gil Durán

Making Light of a Dark Past

La Bola Negra sidesteps the vicious politics of the Spanish Civil War to tell a story about gay sexual freedom.

La Bola Negra a film directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi

Rebel Rebel

George Sand’s scandalous life, including a decade-long affair with Chopin, has obscured the influence of her many novels.

Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand by Fiona Sampson

Mapping Mississippi White

Bennie Thompson’s trailblazing career came after the success of the Voting Rights Act and could end with its fall.

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