Arts & Culture: The New Criterion – February 2023
Category Archives: Magazines
Culture: The New Review Magazine- January 22, 2023
The New Review (January 22, 2023) – Maria Pevchikh @pevchikh, right-hand woman to imprisoned Putin critic @navalny, talks to @carolecadwalla.
Our critics’ picks for the Oscars How the science of Covid vaccines may aid the fight against cancer. Plus @WainBright, director Simon Stone & more.
Culture: New York Times Magazine- January 22, 2023
The New York Times Magazine – January 20, 2023:
Selling False Hope in India’s Cram City
In Kota, students from across the country pay steep fees to be tutored for elite-college admissions exams — which most of them will fail.
Cockfighting Is Illegal in the U.S. Why Does It Breed so Many Fighting Birds?
The long tradition of American game-fowl breeding has produced some of the world’s most coveted roosters.
A rescued rooster named Twister at Vine Sanctuary in Vermont. The staff members there say he has two speeds: mellow and 100 miles per hour .Credit…Andres Serrano for The New York Times
This Soup Is Yotam Ottolenghi’s Comfort Food
In this soup, lamb meatballs and semolina dumplings come with a zest of history.
Research Preview: Science Magazine- January 20, 2023
Stem cell factors reverse signs of aging in mice
Will reprogramming technique one day help people?
Light pollution is skyrocketing
Data from citizen scientists reveal a worrying growth in light pollution over the past decade
Pirates and politics
An anthropologist argues that experimental communities in Madagascar influenced the European Enlightenment
In Science Journals
Highlights from the Science family of journals
Books: New York Review Of Books- February 9, 2023
Beyond the Pale
After the Russian Revolution, Jews had to navigate a new identity: aspiring muscular worker and New Soviet Man.
How the Soviet Jew Was Made by Sasha Senderovich
Going to Extremes
For Matisse art was a perpetual emergency, a matter of testing boundaries, breaking through.
Matisse: The Red Studio – an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, May 1–September 10, 2022; and SMK–National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, October 13, 2022–February 26, 2023
Matisse in the 1930s – an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 20, 2022–January 29, 2023; the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, March 1–May 29, 2023; and the Musée Matisse Nice, June 23–September 24, 2023
Reckoning with Silence
Dionne Brand’s poetry has the weight and sonority of prophetic utterance without a hint of melodrama.
Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems by Dionne Brand
Arias of Despair
What can opera elicit from The Hours that the page and the screen cannot?
The Hours – an opera by Kevin Puts, with a libretto by Greg Pierce, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, November 22–December 15, 2022
Previews: The Economist Magazine- January 21, 2023
Turkey could be on the brink of dictatorship
President Erdogan could tip his country over the edge
Disney’s troubles show how technology has changed the business of culture
At 100, the mouse can still roar. But it faces a new kind of rival
Excess deaths are soaring as health-care systems wobble
What lessons can be learned from a miserable winter across the rich world?
Previews: History Today Magazine – February 2023
History Today Magazine – February 2023 issue:
Secrets of the Silk Road
The discovery of a cave full of manuscripts on the edge of the Gobi Desert reveals the details of everyday life on the Silk Road.
Heirs and Spares
It was not easy to be the second son. The younger brothers of the French kings could choose either to rebel or reconcile, but neither option was straightforward.
The Nazi Spider in the Spanish Press
Hans Josef Lazar pulled the strings of Hitler’s propaganda in wartime Spain. Then he disappeared. Who was he?
Previews: New Scientist Magazine- January 21, 2023
New Scientist Magazine – 21 January 2023:
Web3 promises to reclaim the internet from tech giants – will it work?
There’s a lot of hype surrounding the idea of a decentralised version of the internet that would give more power to ordinary users. Here’s what it would take to make it happen
Fresh ideas about the causes of depression are bringing new treatments
By upending the idea that a chemical imbalance in the brain is behind depression, we are starting to understand some of its mysteries and develop better treatments
How we finally tracked European eels all the way to the Sargasso Sea
Where European eels start and end their lives was long a mystery, but an audacious expedition has finally revealed the last details of their incredible migration
Research Preview: Nature Magazine- January 19, 2023
How the periodic table survived a war to secure chemistry’s future
A century ago, the discovery of hafnium confirmed the validity of the periodic table — but only thanks to scientists who stood up for evidence at a time of global turmoil.
How to make wearable devices people could forget they’re wearing
A metal–polymer composite conducts electricity and conforms to the skin, making it suitable for medical devices applied directly to the body.
Demon goddess moon takes control of a planet
Dwarf planet Eris’ rotation is constrained by its large moon Dysnomia, named after the Greek goddess of lawlessness.
Huge genomic study shows varicose veins’ links to height and weight
Analysis of more than one million people suggests that roughly 16% of the condition can be attributed to genetic factors.
Lifestyle: Country Life Magazine – Jan 18, 2023
Blue-sky thinking
Glasshouses can be havens for people as well as their plants, Caroline Donald discovers
Getting a few words in hedgewise
Alan Titchmarsh speaks out in defence of the privet hedge
All aboard for Ironhenge!
In the first of a two-part series Marcus Binney explores the park of Fawley Hill, Berkshire
Are you stark raven mad?
Ian Morton lauds the intelligence of the much-maligned corvid
