THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Verlyn Klinkenborg on the rivers that you’re used to, Fintan O’Toole on Andy Burnham’s communion, Ruth Bernard Yeazell on illustrious illustration, Mark O’Connell on JD Vance’s overweening ambition, Melissa Anderson on Tally Brown’s underground, Jake Bernstein on the super PAC blitz, Erin Maglaque on a medieval Me Too moment, Vivian Gornick on the history of affordable housing, Ben Rhodes on Biden’s dereliction of Gaza, a poem by Jenny Grassl, and much more.

Biden’s Choice

As Israel’s assault on Gaza grew worse and worse, Joe Biden and his advisers acted as though they had no option but to offer their unconditional support. Why couldn’t they see the destruction they were enabling? By Ben Rhodes

Hull House on the Hudson

Mary K. Simkhovitch, the founder of Greenwich House, believed in the radical idea that housing should be made as livable for the working class as it was for the middle class. By Vivian Gornick

Me Too in the Middle Ages

A forensic study of a rape survivor from 1473 Dijon reveals a legal process surprisingly accepting of imperfect victims and contradictory testimony. By Erin Maglaque

The Flood of Life

Our desire to control a river’s course always conflicts with a river’s determination to shape its own. By Verlyn Klinkenborg