TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 9, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Burning Spitit’ – On capturing Dante; Dickens’s feverish imagination…
Times Literary Supplement – April 11, 2025 Preview
Category Archives: Arts & Literature
The New Yorker Magazine – April 14, 2025 Preview
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (April 7, 2025): The latest issue features Richard McGuire’s “Zooming In” – Peering at our relationship to technology. By Françoise MoulyArt by Richard McGuire
At the Smithsonian, Donald Trump Takes Aim at History
The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats everywhere. By David Remnick
Protecting the National Airspace, Post-DOGE
For nearly seventy years, the F.A.A.’s experimental safety lab near Atlantic City has run turbulence tests, set fire to seat cushions, and dropped crash-test dummies. Will it survive Elon Musk? By Robert Sullivan
Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user. By Kyle Chayka
The New York Review Of Books – April 24, 2025
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (April 3, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Spring Books’….
Charting an Unheroic Past
With her densely textured, ambitious, and deeply collaborative scholarship, the historian Catherine Hall has transformed public discourse about slavery.
Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism by Catherine Hall
The 176-Year Argument
At the University of Chicago all they wanted to know was, What’s the theory? At Yale all they wanted to know was, What’s the technique? At City College of New York all they wanted to know was, How does this relate to real life?
Lunar Myths and Mysteries
Two new books explore our growing scientific understanding of the moon as well as its powerful appeal to the imagination.
Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps, and Matter edited by Matthew Shindell, with a foreword by Dava Sobel
Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle
The London Magazine – April/May 2025 Preview
THE LONDON MAGAZINE (April 2, 2025): The latest issue takes the city as its muse:
Joshua Mehigan finds poetic inspiration at a petrol station stop, on the way back from Atlantic City
Kasra Lang and Sara Ahmad explore London and its residents who are marginalised or ignored
Paul Stephenson goes to Paris and attempts to ‘exhaust a place’ à la Georges Perec
Gráinne O’Hare’s fiction takes us to Belfast, a city scarred by the effects of generational trauma
Times Literary Supplement – April 4, 2025 Preview
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 2, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Art and Lifestyle’ – On visual culture in the era of AI…
A bad business
Recalculating the economic gains of slavery By Padraic X. Scanlan
Raging bull
Rejecting the narrative of Picasso the monster to women By Lisa Hilton
Rebirth of the modern
The future of art and artists in the era of artificial intelligence By Aaron Peck
Writer, lawyer, banker, cleaner
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s tale of four women – and many social ills By Houman Barekat
Books: Literary Review – April 2025 Preview
LITERARY REVIEW (April 1, 2025): The April 2025 issue features ‘Henry James Goes West’; Russia’s Secret Wars’ Josephine Baker Uncovered; Besotted With Blake and Tale of Two America’s…
Tinker, Tailor, Sleeper, Troll
The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West By Shaun Walker
The Restless Analyst
Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age By Peter Brooks
On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays By Henry James (Edited by Michael Gorra)
Merger or Acquisition?
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America By Russell Shorto
Apollo Magazine – April 2025 – International Art
APOLLO MAGAZINE (March 31, 2025): The April 2025 issue features ‘The sonic visions of Oliver Beer’; The Frick returns to Fifth Avenue and How the Acropolis became modern….
The Frick returns to Fifth Avenue
An interview with Oliver Beer
How the Acropolis became modern
In praise of ‘degenerate’ art
Also: The duchess who scandalised Spain, why the market for women’s art is slowing, Dutch paintings at Apsley House, how Bugatti built a style icon, the sensational designs of Alphonse Mucha, and a preview of Art Dubai; reviews of Gertrude Abercrombie in Pittsburgh, Medardo Rosso in Vienna, and a history of image-eating. Plus: Will Wiles on a French avant-garde portrait with a family connection
The New Yorker Magazine – April 7, 2025 Preview
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 31, 2025): Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices” – The Trump Administration’s not-so-classified group chat.
The Greater Scandal of Signalgate
The spectacle of incompetence and the attempts to smear a reporter are a misery; even worse is the encroaching threat of autocracy that cannot be concealed or encrypted. By David Remnick
The Senate’s Age of Irrelevance
Elon Musk’s DOGE and Trump’s executive orders are pushing Congress’s upper chamber from ineffectiveness to obsolescence. Will John Thune, the new Majority Leader, let them? By David D. Kirkpatrick
Mixed Signals
Who says there are no historical precedents for accidentally including a journalist on top-secret war plans? By Anthony Lane
London Review Of Books – April 3, 2025 Preview
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 26, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Regime Change in the West’; Marvelous Mavis Gallant; Executive Order 14168; Long Ling visits the new Bejing…
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Normandy: The Sailors’ Story by Nick Hewitt
D-Day, the Oral History: The Turning Point of World War Two by the People Who Were There by Garrett M. Graff
Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1 by Karl Marx, edited by Paul North and Paul Reitter, translated by Paul Reitter
Times Literary Supplement – March 28, 2025 Preview
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 26, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Many Muses’ – The women who inspired Rainer Maria Rilke; The real prime minister; Elon Musk’s big wink; The occult world of Ithell Colquhoun…
