Culture Preview: The New Review – October 2, 2022
Category Archives: Stories
Covers: New York Review Of Books – Oct 20, 2022
The Two Elizabeths
The queen presided over the death of a British world and yet was enormously successful in keeping alive the monarchy that symbolized it.
Last Poem
A poem by Emily Berry
‘She Captured All Before Her’
It used to be that people complained how little they knew of Queen Elizabeth. Toward the end, her remoteness was treasured.
Silences and Scars
Two new books on Berlin track the city through decades of growth, economic desperation, artistic innovation, Nazi terror, political division, and reunification.
Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World by Sinclair McKay
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin by Kirsty Bell
Lucky Guy
Jared Kushner’s anti-ideological ideology is to get the best deal for whomever he represents—the business he was born into, the business he married into, and, most of all, himself.
Breaking History: A White House Memoir by Jared Kushner
Arts & History: ‘Winslow Homer – Force Of Nature’
Why is Winslow Homer a household name in the USA? And what makes his art so important? Follow Homer’s journey, at a time of great upheaval in American history, from magazine illustrator to sought-after artist in oil and watercolour.
Winslow Homer: Force of Nature Ground Floor Galleries Until 8 January 2023
Previews: London Review Of Books – October 6, 2022
Our new issue is finally online, ft Mahmood Mandani on leaving Uganda, Tony Wood on Russia’s energy crisis, @MJCarter10 at Westminster Abbey, @danielsoar on Ian McEwan, @amiasrinivasan on Andrea Dworkin, T.J. Clark on painting & poetry & a @Jon_McN cover.
On Leaving Uganda
Uganda’s constitution of 1995 entrenched the barrier against citizenship for non-indigenous applicants, who now had to belong to an indigenous group.
At Westminster Abbey
The bald lesson of the abbey’s memorials is that money, power and connections repeatedly trump virtue and talent.
Stories: Hurricane Ian Flooding, Gas Pipeline Sabotage, UK Turmoil
Hurricane Ian roared ashore in Southwest Florida bringing historic flooding and winds more than 140mph. Some European leaders are blaming Russia for explosions that damaged two gas pipelines in the Baltic sea. And the Bank of England steps in to prevent economic turmoil in the UK.
Previews: The Economist Magazine – October 1, 2022
How not to run a country
Liz Truss’s new government may already be dead in the water
Hurricane Ian pummels Florida
The Sunshine State has seen 40% of America’s hurricanes and a huge population boom
Preview: Country Life Magazine – Sept 28, 2022
Country Life Magazine – September 28, 2022:
Walk this way
Katy Birchall consults trainer Ben Randall about how to get your dog to focus on you and stop disappearing on walks
Shooting pains
As a difficult shooting season begins, Simon Lester considers the state of the sport amid its many modern challenges
If I only had a brain
Confusing to dogs and a star of horror films, scarecrows still fulfil their traditional bird-scaring role, discovers Jeremy Hobson
Mary-Ann Dunkley’s favourite painting
The design director of Liberty Fabrics picks a bright patchwork
Masterpiece
Jack Watkins is diverted by the story of Shaw’s Pygmalion
Previews: Times Literary Supplement – Sept 30, 2022
This week’s @TheTLS , featuring @RichardEvans36 on German militarism; Laura Thompson on Raine Spencer; A. N. Wilson on Turgenev; @colincraiggrant on Eureka Day; Claire Lowdon on Kamila Shamsie; @rauchway on interest rates – and more.
Stories: Hurricane Ian Hits Florida, Leaks In Russian Gas Pipeline, Healthy Food
Hurricane Ian is making its presence known on Florida’s Gulf Coast after knocking out power all over Cuba. Two and a half million people are under evacuation orders across the state.
There are a lot of questions about leaks at two offshore pipelines that transport Russian gas to Europe. Several nations have called the leaks suspicious and point the finger at Moscow. And what’s the Biden administration’s plan to get Americans better access to healthy food?
Preview: New York Times Style Magazine – 10.2.2022
An Italian Villa Where Architecture Is a Family Affair
Most homes hold the history of their owners, but Il Palazzetto is as much a monument to its designers as to its inhabitants.
In Malibu, an Inflatable Bungalow for Robert Downey Jr.
The actor’s thin-shell home is at once an aerodynamic oddity and, perhaps, a harbinger of environmentally conscious architecture.
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