London Review Of Books – January 25, 2024 Preview

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London Review of Books (LRB) – January 17, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Living With Keats’ – A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph; Congress vs Harvard; The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution, and more…

Hooted from the Stage

Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph: 9780525655831: Miller,  Lucasta: Books - Amazon.com

Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph 
by Lucasta Miller.

Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse 
by Anahid Nersessian.

By Susan Eilenberg

Looking​ back to September 1820, when things had gone badly wrong but not yet so grotesquely as to be visibly beyond repair, we can see how few and how poor Keats’s options were. Surely it was better that (in the absence of other volunteers) the young artist Joseph Severn agreed to travel with the dying poet to Rome that autumn than that he had refused.

Bertie Wooster in Murmansk

A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution 
by Anna Reid.

By Sheila Fitzpatrick

Research Preview: Nature Magazine- January 18, 2024

Volume 625 Issue 7995

Nature Magazine – January 17, 2024: The latest issue cover features the giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki, thought to be the largest primate that ever lived, which lived in China between 2 million and 300,000 years ago.

Why the immune response to a vaccine varies from person to person

A dormant immune system before receiving the BCG vaccine is tied to a greater innate immune response afterwards.

The Higgs boson is caught in a singular transformation

Detectors at the Large Hadron Collider spot the famed particle decaying into a photon and a ‘Z boson’.

Commentary Magazine – February 2024 Preview

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Commentary Magazine (January 17, 2024) The latest issue features ‘They’re Coming After Us’ – The sense Israelis have that they are personally vulnerable to outside attack in a manner more like an extended military invasion than a terrorist blow….

They’re Coming After Us

They're Coming After Us

by John Podhoretz

‘IHAVE NEVER FELT LIKE THIS BEFORE’

I have lost count of the number of times the phrase “I have never felt like this before” has been spoken in my ear, texted to me, or sent to me in an email, in the three months since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.

When I talked with Israelis on a trip in November, the phrase described a gut emotion few under the age of 50 said they had ever experienced—the sense that they were personally vulnerable to outside attack in a manner more like an extended military invasion than a terrorist blow. They had lived through years of ineffectual rocket fire that was all but magically extinguished by the Iron Dome and Arrow anti-missile systems. 

The Likely Lab Leak and the Covid Cassandra

by James B. Meigs

Enola Gay, or, How the Media Imploded When It Came to Harvard’s President

by Christine Rosen

Views: Novelist Margaret Atwood On Democracy – “Is It Fragile Or Resilient?”

Financial Times (January 17, 2024) – In a year in which more than half the world goes to the polls, acclaimed novelist Margaret Atwood asks whether democracy is fragile and easily destroyed or flexible and resilient.

This animated monologue is the first of four films examining the state of government, representation, rights and freedom.

Read more at https://www.ft.com/democracy

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Jan 19, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (January 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Power Failure’ – The retreat from net zero; Canon wars; The end of literary criticism; Empires imprint on the Middle East; Harvard and plagarism….

Previews: Country Life Magazine-January 17, 2024

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Country Life Magazine – January 17, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Floral Fireworks’ – The National Collection of Dahlias; The Bridges of Britain; and the Arts-and-Crafts masterpieces of Madresfield Court, Worcestershire…

Floral fireworks

Kirsty Fergusson visits the new home of the 1,700-strong National Collection of Dahlias and reveals which blooms to order now for late-summer colour

The Bridges of Britain

Our greatest bridges span the ages and have the power to inspire both awe and admiration, as Jack Watkins discovers

Cold cures

The beautiful and practical cast-iron Victorian cloche is making a comeback. Tiffany Daneff investigates the revival of the miniature glass house

Twist and shout

Tiffany Daneff visits Morton Hall Gardens in Worcestershire to discover the secret of its owner’s intriguing new clematis-training technique

Why, why, why weigela?

New forms of this easy-to-grow garden shrub have repeating flowers in wonderful colours — no wonder they are hot sellers, suggests Charles Quest-Ritson

News: Gaza War Widens As Iran Strikes Iraq & Syria, North Korea-Russia Ties

The Globalist Podcast (January 17, 2024) We discuss the regional spillover of the war in Gaza following Iranian missile strikes in Iraq and Syria.

Plus: North Korea and Russia’s growing alliance, a check-in from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting and the latest music news.

The New York Times — Wednesday, Jan 17, 2024

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After Iowa, Trump Is Back to Command the National Psyche. He Never Actually Left.

Donald Trump walking away from an airplane on a snowy airport tarmac.

The former president’s detractors own no earplugs effective enough to block out his steamrolling bid for a third nomination.

U.S. Strikes Houthi Targets in Yemen for a Third Time

The American strikes destroyed four missiles that posed a threat to ships in the Red Sea, the Pentagon said. They came on the third day in a row the Houthis have defiantly fired at passing ships.

A Times Investigation Tracked Israel’s Use of One of Its Most Destructive Bombs in South Gaza

A Times visual investigation reveals that one of Israel’s largest munitions was regularly being dropped in areas designated safe for i

Israel Unearths More of a Subterranean Fortress Under Gaza

The Israeli military has been surprised by the extent, depth and quality of the tunnel network beneath Gaza.