That cartoon reveals Ferzat's own dealings with President Assad, where he soon found the rhetoric of change fell far short of the reality. He recalls that when Mr Assad first came to power, the artistic community in Syria tried to win him over to its side. Ferzat himself was allowed to start his own satirical magazine - the first independent paper to be licensed for decades. Read more
While his possible successors are dinner-party fodder, Robert Silvers says he has no plans to step down from The New York Review of Books. Read more
Not all sentences end up in novels or stories. We encounter books at different times in life, often appreciating them, apprehending them, in different ways. But their language is constant. The best sentences orient us, like stars in the sky, like landmarks on a trail. But novels and stories consist of nothing but. Read more
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