London Review Of Books – October 10, 2024 Preview
Tag Archives: Literary Magazines
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Oct. 4, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (October 2, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Canon Fire’ – Emma Smith and Brian Vickers on authorship in the golden age of theatre…
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – October 7, 2024
Kamala Harris for President
The Vice-President has displayed the basic values and political skills that would enable her to help end, once and for all, a poisonous era defined by Donald Trump. By The Editors
Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis?
Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life online for answers. By Andrew Solomon
Is a Chat with a Bot a Conversation?
An artificial voice has long been a dream of tinkerers and technologists. Now that A.I. can talk, though, we may forget who we’re talking to.
By Jill Lepore
The New York Review Of Books – October 17, 2024
‘The Death of Some Ideal’
The Irish novelist Anne Enright writes with great prowess and wit about women who make a virtue of getting on with things.
The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright
The Fact Man
At the heart of Daniel Defoe’s fictional world is a feeling for change, of the mutability and shiftiness of modern life and the people who thrive in it.
The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe edited by Nicholas Seager and J.A. Downie
The Problems with Polls
Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.
Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them by G. Elliott Morris
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Sept. 27, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (September 25, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Body and Soul’ – Noel Malcolm on Diamaid MacCulloch’s history of sex and Christianity; Jean Genet’s lost drama; Becoming Lucy Sante; Poor little kids and How the compass got its points…
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Sept. 30, 2024
How Trump Hopes to Exploit the Myth of Voter Fraud in November
For years, the former President has claimed that undocumented immigrants vote illegally. That fiction is now the explicit position of the Party establishment. By Jonathan Blitzer
The Priest Who Helps Women in the Mob Escape
Don Luigi Ciotti leads an anti-Mafia organization, and for decades he has run a secret operation that liberates women from the criminal underworld. By D. T. Max
Which Party Has Cornered the Tattoo Vote?
Lauren Boebert has a “tribal” design on her midriff, but there’s competition from John Fetterman and the tattoo caucus—and don’t forget John F. Kennedy or Theodore Roosevelt. By Charles Bethea
London Review Of Books – September 26, 2024 Preview
Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender and Race in the Middle Ages by Roland Betancourt
At the Movies: ‘Only the River Flows’ by Michael Wood
From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I by Susan Doran – Clare Jackson
Kubrick: An Odyssey by Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams – David Bromwich
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Sept. 20, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (September 18, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Autumn Fiction’ – Rachel Kushner, Olga Tokarczuk, László Krasznahorkai and Sally Rooney; Craig Brown on The Queen; A very Yorkshire horror; China’s Britain complex and The Looting of America…
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Sept. 23, 2024
The Presidential Campaign, After Philadelphia
Part of the intrigue has been which movement would run out of steam first: Trump’s MAGA, through its failures, or Obama’s liberalism, through its successes. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
The Art of Taking It Slow
Contemporary cycling is all about spandex and personal bests. The bicycle designer Grant Petersen has amassed an ardent following by urging people to get comfortable bikes, and go easy. By Anna Wiener
The Anguish of Looking at a Monet
More than beauty, more than color, the artist reveals the doubts that bind us. By Jackson Arn
The New York Review Of Books – October 3, 2024
Savvy in the Grass
Some botanists maintain that peas are capable of associative learning, others that tropical vines have a sort of vision. If plants possess sentience, what is the morally appropriate response?
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger
The Nation of Plants by Stefano Mancuso, translated from the Italian by Gregory Conti
Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence by Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence
An Entry of One’s Own
A collection of excerpts from women’s diaries written over the past four centuries offers a vast range of human experience and a subtle counterhistory.
Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries edited by Sarah Gristwood
The Bliss and the Risks
The painter Paula Modersohn-Becker’s ascension to greater visibility raises questions about how we assess artistic talent, how reputations are made, and how we reevaluate once-neglected artists, particularly women.
Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich/I Am Me an exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York City, June 6–September 9, 2024, and the Art Institute of Chicago, October 12, 2024–January 12, 2025
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