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The New York Times Book Review – February 19, 2023

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The New York Times Book Review – February 19, 2023:

When the Government Goes Top Secret, Who Can Write Its History?

In “The Declassification Engine,” Matthew Connelly traces the evolution of America’s obsession with secrecy and the alarming implications for our understanding of the past.

Walter Mosley’s New York: Classes Divided, Races at War

His new novel, “Every Man a King,” is a hard-boiled tale of billionaires, white nationalists and a detective with a complicated past.

International Literature: Lush Landscapes, Hazy Memories

New books from Kevin Jared Hosein, Pilar Quintana, Nona Fernández and Patrick Modiano.

Financial, Investing, Magazines, Previews, Retirement, Reviews

Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – Feb 20, 2023

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Barron’s Magazine – February 20, 2023:

Why the World Is Using More Plastic

A glut of so-called virgin plastic is pushing down prices and fueling demand as recycling fails to advance.

Barron’s Best Fund Families

Last year was a tough one for investors. Our latest annual ranking of actively managed funds reveals how the best firms pulled it off.

Russia’s War in Ukraine Has Scarred the Global Economy. The Risks Aren’t Over.

The invasion has lowered global growth, upended energy markets, and heightened geopolitical risk. What comes next might not be an improvement.

Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Previews, Reviews, Society

Culture: New York Times Magazine – Feb 19, 2023

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The New York Times Magazine – February 19, 2023:

Spirited Away to Miyazaki Land

What happens when the surreal imagination of the world’s greatest living animator, Hayao Miyazaki, is turned into a theme park?

Remaking Country’s Gender Politics, One Barroom Weeper at a Time

The Nashville songwriter Shane McAnally is behind many of country music’s No. 1 hits, which aren’t as straight as they seem.

Why Is Affirmative Action in Peril? One Man’s Decision.

How the landmark 1978 Supreme Court decision that upheld the practice may ultimately have set it on a path to being outlawed.

Culture, History, Magazines, Previews, Reviews

Previews: History Today Magazine – March 2023

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Volume 73 Issue 3 March 2023 | History Today

History Today Magazine – March 2023 Issue:

Treason of the Clerics

For 600 years Muslims held sway over the Indian subcontinent. Then democracy and a desultory leadership did them in.

Getting Away with Murder

Found guilty of the Temple Murders in 1733, Sarah Malcolm became the most notorious woman in Britain. Did she commit the crime alone? Did she commit it at all?

Save Your Ass

The US government was happy to support the assassination of foreign officials – but not to be seen doing so.

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The New York Review Of Books – March 9, 2023

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The New York Review of Books – March 9, 2023:

Peddling Darkness

True crime stories, like Sarah Weinman’s Scoundrel, make for suspenseful reading. But do they exploit the criminal, and deepen a thirst for punishment?

Commanders and Courtiers

The Howe family achieved an influential position of power in late-eighteenth-century Britain, propelled by the shrewd social intelligence of the Howe women.

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Books: TLS/Times Literary Supplement – Feb 17, 2023

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Times Literary Supplement (February 17, 2023) – This week’s @TheTLS , featuring @jamesamarcus on Mailer at 100; Tom Seymour Evans on James Ellroy; @SPlokhy on Putin’s war in Ukraine; @nclarke14 on Blake Morrison; @CamilleRalphs_on Sylvia Plath; @natsegnit on Salman Rushdie; @rinireg on balloons – and more.

Magazines, Previews, Research, Reviews, Science

Science Review: Scientific American – March 2023

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Scientific American – March 2023 Issue:

Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments

The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system

Tiny Bubbles of Quark-Gluon Plasma Re-create the Early Universe

New experiments can re-create the young cosmos, when it was a mash of fundamental particles, more precisely than ever before

Babies Are Born with an Innate Number Sense

Plato was right: newborns do math

Financial, Investing, Magazines, Previews, Retirement, Reviews

Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – Feb 13, 2023

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Barron’s Magazine – February 13, 2023 issue:

ChatGPT Sparked an AI Craze. How to Cut Through the Hype.

Artificial intelligence has sparked new competition in internet search—for the first time in decades. Here’s how to build an AI portfolio.

You Could Live to 100. The Trick Is Not Running Out of Money.

More people are living longer and healthier. Here’s how to make sure your retirement savings lasts, while still living life to the fullest.

Can Paramount Escape a Century of Dysfunction?

A new book digs into the communication giant’s troubled history as investors await a turnaround under CEO Robert Bakish and nonexecutive Chair Shari Redstone.

Expect to Live a Long Time? Plan for Rising Healthcare Costs.

Even if you’re fit, healthcare is a massive—and growing—expense that increases the longer you live. Here are ways to stretch your spending power.