APOLLO MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Miquel Barceló’s Mutant Art’….
While the architect’s approach to restoring France’s medieval buildings remains controversial, his many and varied talents are still utterly awe-inspiring by Tim Smith-Laing
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features ‘Visions of America’
Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History by Vali Nasr.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Jason Zengerle on Tucker Carlson, Joshua Yaffa on Trump and Greenland, Hermione Hoby on David Foster Wallace, and more.
The President caused a crisis in NATO and deepened European distrust toward the U.S. to end up with basically the same set of options that existed months ago. By Joshua Yaffa
Republicans have become adept at creating broad coalitions in which supporting Trump is the only requirement. Democrats get tied up with litmus tests.
A shocking act of political violence exposed the cult’s deep influence. By E. Tammy Kim
Doctor, writer, musician, and orator: Rudolph Fisher was a scientist and an artist whose métier was Harlem By Harriet A. Washington
The music of Jimi Hendrix continues to strike a chord By James McManus
When a filmmaker wanted to understand the war that changed his father, he decided to make a documentary By Thomas A. Bass
Two deaths nearly five decades apart and the hospital that felt like a nightmare By Natalie Angier
President Trump’s decision to support Delcy Rodríguez as Venezuela’s new leader makes clear that oil, not democracy, is his main concern.
The US capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro reinforces the Trump administration’s capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.
A new life of Gertrude Stein treats her as a philosopher of language to trust, not explain—and gathers force from archival discoveries and intriguing plots of her reception and reputation.
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade
The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.
We the People: A History of the US Constitution by Jill Lepore
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘The state of British poetry’ by Tristram Fane Saunders…
The forward march of British poetry
A history of childbirth and a defence of the C-section
By Leah Hazard
Newly discovered photographs of Baudelaire’s muse
The thrill of marine archaeology
By Alan Jenkins
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Adrian Tomine’s “Post-Vacation” – Staying warm.
During the President’s second Administration, universal principles such as self-determination and due process are wielded only opportunistically.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
After the ouster of President Nicolás Maduro, some residents fear that one unelected despot has been swapped for another.
By Armando Ledezma
n+1 Magazine: The latest issue features the ‘Winter 2026 issue, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS’ – H is for hawks. Trump’s cleavage: a semiotic investigation. Haters, waiters, trash containers. Emily Callaci and Dayna Tortorici on intra-feminist debates. Matthew Porges on new space odysseys.
In the contemporary Chinese context, the idea that crucial parts of the central government could simply cease to operate for more than a month, as part of a procedural standoff between rival governing factions, would beggar belief. And in turn, to an American observer, the thought that miles of new high-speed rail lines could simply materialize by bureaucratic fiat, unencumbered by years of legislative horse-trading, environmental review, suburban backlash, and budgetary overshoot, is no less astonishing.
Adams will be remembered for his petty corruption, his self-mythologizing, and his ignominious dealmaking with the Trump White House; but he should also be remembered as the mayor who got New Yorkers to stop tossing giant bags of trash onto city sidewalks as if there were no alternative. You can laugh at a New York mayor who walks into a press conference wheeling out a trash can, beaming as if he invented the contraption, while “Empire State of Mind” blares triumphantly in the background. But truly, Adams’s proclaimed “trash revolution” represented a tremendous advance over abysmal past practice.
“Men make their own history,” Marx wrote, “but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.” That may be broadly true, but Dick Cheney got to make history under the exact circumstances he would have chosen.
THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features…
The Peruvian uncertainty principle by James Como
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…
