The New York Review Of Books – June 20, 2024

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The New York Review of Books (June 9, 2024)The latest issue features:

Livelier Than the Living

In the Renaissance, reading became both a passion and a pose of detachment—for those who could afford it—from the pursuits of wealth and power.

A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe by Lina Bolzoni, translated from the Italian by Sylvia Greenup

Untold Futures: Time and Literary Culture in Renaissance England

Black Atlantics

The scholar Louis Chude-Sokei does the urgent work of reimagining the African diaspora as multiple diasporas.

Floating in a Most Peculiar Way by Louis Chude-Sokei

The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora by Louis Chude-Sokei

The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics by Louis Chude-Sokei

Africa Travel: The Top Ten Places To Visit In Namibia

Ryan Shirley Films (June 9, 2024): Namibia, a country in southwest Africa, is distinguished by the Namib Desert along its Atlantic Ocean coast. It is home to diverse wildlife, including a significant cheetah population.

The capital, Windhoek, and coastal town Swakopmund contain German colonial-era buildings such as Windhoek’s Christuskirche, built in 1907. In the north, Etosha National Park’s salt pan draws game including rhinos and giraffes.

Preview: Philosophy Now Magazine June/July 2024

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Philosophy Now Magazine (June/July 2024)The new issue features ‘The Meaning Issue’…

The Search for Meaning

by Rick Lewis

A famous parable dating back to ancient India involves some blind monks encountering an elephant. The monks each touch just one part of the elephant, and afterwards they compare notes. One declares that the creature feels like a snake, another that it has a shape like a tree trunk and so on. Like many parables, you can interpret it in different ways, but it seems to be saying that even for something that is an objectively real part of the world, like an elephant, it is possible to have different subjective views of it, all of which may be valid.

Luce Irigaray interviewed by Octave Larmagnac-Matheron and translated by Mélanie Salvi.

Philosophers Exploring The Good Life

Jim Mepham quests with philosophers to discover what makes a life good.

The Present Is Not All There Is To Happiness

Rob Glacier says don’t just live in the now.

What Is Life Worth?

Michael Allen Fox wonders whether life really is ‘a precious gift’.

Sunday Morning: Stories And News From Zürich, London, Milan And Basel

Monocle on Sunday, June 9, 2024: Juliet Linley and Gabe Bullard join Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, to discuss the weekend’s hottest topics.

We also speak to Monocle’s Europe editor at large, Ed Stocker, for the latest updates on the EU elections and Monocle’s editor in chief, Andrew Tuck, gives us the view from London. Plus: Art Basel CEO, Noah Horowitz, joins to discuss this year’s event.

The New York Times — Sunday, June 9, 2024

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Israel Rescues 4 Hostages in Assault That Killed Scores of Gazans

The news was met with jubilation in Israel, where tensions over the hostages’ safety have been rising in recent months.

Trump Vows to Lower Prices. Some of His Policies May Raise Them.

Donald J. Trump has not released a detailed economic plan. But three of his key proposals would push prices up, economists say.

U.S. Confronts Failures as Terrorism Spreads in West Africa

American and French forces have been ordered out of several countries after a series of coups.

A Republican Election Clerk vs. Trump Die-Hards in a World of Lies

Cindy Elgan has overseen elections in rural Nevada without incident for 20 years, but now even her neighbors wonder if she’s part of “the deep state cabal.”