TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Emily Brontë’s mysterious power’….
Oxbridge in the postwar world By Richard Vinen
The awesome, mysterious work of Emily Brontë By Claire Harman
Silence in literature By Daniel Karlin
Should human life have a purpose? By Crispin Sartwell
THE HUDSON REVIEW: The latest issue features….
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Spa Day,” by Marcellus Hall.
The recent subpoenas of reporters make clear that the President is trying to threaten the press. Few protections are in place to stop him. By Ruth Marcus
Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu.
The Venezuelan politician hoped to become her country’s leader with help from the U.S. The Trump Administration had other priorities. By Stephania Taladrid
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Jonathan Blitzer on ICE’s biggest detention center, Zach Helfand on steroids, Jessica Contreras on a family intertwined with A.I., and more.
Under a new proposal, Administration officials could deny government grants to any group or project on the ground that it didn’t fit the President’s agenda. By Elizabeth Kolbert
A single mom, her two daughters, and the chatbots that fill in the gaps. By Jessica Contrera
On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design. By Jonathan Blitze
New books, articles, and shows lament a crisis of connection among American men. But the picture of friendship that emerges can feel romanticized and brittle. By Katy Waldman
On the nature of autobiographical memory By Jonathan Weiner
Samuel Clemens is everywhere in Hannibal, Missouri, but is the story the town tells about its favorite son grounded in reality or myth? By Ruth Franklin
The act of rendering plays from Romanian to English has allowed me to discover my family’s past—and myself By Amanda L. Andrei
A 1930s correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud laid out each man’s views on war and peace By George Makari
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…
America’s centennial in 1876 was celebrated with a grand exhibition that projected an image of national unity and inventiveness in the anxious aftermath of civil war and recession.
Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future by Fergus M. Bordewich
Peter Magyar’s landslide electoral victory in April made clear that after sixteen years, Hungarians were tired of Viktor Orbán.
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism examines how Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, by selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit.
Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff
Though a mystery to Darwin in his lifetime, the constant mutation of our genes is what allows for life’s magnificent diversity.
Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health by Roxanne Khamsi
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features Allen Ginsberg at 100; Shere Hite and the female pleasure principle; Shakespeare’s politics…
The Iranian regime’s long confrontation with America By Azadeh Moaveni
Poet, counterculture critic and self-promoter By Douglas Field
Do objects exist independently of human experience? By Emily Herring
How Shere Hite put women’s pleasure first By Angela Saini
For a brief period before the First World War, oblique angles and angular planes were all the rage in Prague
Artworks documenting the Wild West are becoming increasingly sought-after – and collectors are paying big bucks to lasso the best ones
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features…
Critical views of D. H. Lawrence’s notorious novel By Nicholas Murray
Thirty-four TLS writers share their holiday reading
The Declaration of Independence at 250
A showily ingenious novel about the exploitation of attention
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