TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘The writer as thinker’ – On the novel of ideas; The age of misgovernment; Keeping up with the Camerons; Chaucer’s ambitions for English and Samuel Beckett and me…
Monthly Archives: July 2025
THE NEW YORK TIMES – WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2025
Trump’s Finances Were Shaky. Then He Began to Capitalize on His Comeback.
Contrary to President Trump’s assertions, records filed in a fraud case against him suggest that his riches are not the product of a steady and strong empire.
What We Know (and Can’t Know) About Trump’s Wealth
Though some aspects of President Trump’s net worth are murky, it has unmistakably soared in the early months of his second term.
Trump Faces the Biggest Test Yet of His Second-Term Political Power
If President Trump gets his domestic policy bill over the finish line, it will be a vivid demonstration of his continuing hold over the Republican Party.
Divided G.O.P. to Decide Fate of President’s Policy Bill
LITERARY REVIEW – JULY 2025
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
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.