LITERARY REVIEW – JULY 2025

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LITERARY REVIEW (July 1, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Will Wiles on the Art of Purism…

Hung, Drawn & Courted – Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers By Jean Strouse

John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits By Richard Ormond

No Sketching! – Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy By Charles Darwent

Artists on Tour – Art on the Move in Renaissance Italy By David Landau

Literary Lives

THE NEW YORK TIMES – TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2025

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Republicans Try to Wrangle Votes as Senate Debates Policy Bill for 3rd Day

Vice President JD Vance arrived at the Capitol prepared to cast a tiebreaking vote on the bill, but it was not clear when Republicans would call a final vote.

What’s in the Trump Policy Bill?

California Rolls Back Its Landmark Environmental Law

Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers scaled back a law that was vilified for its role in California’s housing shortage and homelessness crisis.

Under a Drone-Swarmed Sky: Surviving in Eastern Ukraine

Towns and troops long accustomed to merciless bombardment are adjusting to an even denser pattern of attacks.

Top Russian General Is Convicted in High-Profile Corruption Case