THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – JANUARY 15, 2026

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Susan Tallman – Fairness for the Dispossessed; Kevin Power – David Szalay’s Wretched Men; Jeremy Donk – How Erik Satie Freed the Notes…

‘Minimum Victory’

Weary of war and staring down the likelihood of an unjust peace, Ukrainian intellectuals are plotting out a road map for the future. 

East Side Story

Josh Safdie’s new film, starring Timothée Chalamet, is both a character study of monomania and a moving fable of how the American century of table tennis was lost.

L’Affaire Carlson

Concern over antisemitism on the right has split the conservative world in two—and GOP gatekeepers have lost the ability to contain it.

‘They Killed Our People’

More than a century after white mobs in Elaine, Arkansas, murdered hundreds of black sharecroppers in 1919, the massacre’s memory remains contested. 

‘The Ancient and Long-Forgotten Language of Cinematography’

If the movies are dead, why does Bi Gan’s Resurrection feel so alive?

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – JANUARY 2026

Scientific American Volume 334, Issue 1 | Scientific American

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘A (Friendly) Robot Invasion – Can we live alongside intelligent machines?

These Orcas Are on the Brink—And So Is the Science That Could Save Them

Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers

Meet Your Future Robot Servants, Caregivers and Explorers

A Distorted Mind-Body Connection May Explain Common Mental Illnesses

Rising Temperatures Could Trigger a Reptile Sexpocalypse

Heart and Kidney Diseases and Type 2 Diabetes May Be One Ailment

THE NEW YORK TIMES – TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2025

More Epstein Files Are Released and Include Some References to Trump

The Justice Department released another batch of documents from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation — a wide mix of emails, tips and records from his death.

The Pentagon and A.I. Giants Have a Weakness. Both Need China’s Batteries, Badly.

As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China’s battery dominance is raising alarms beyond the auto industry.8 min read

Why the A.I. Rally (and the Bubble Talk) Could Continue Next Year

Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts

A union representing career diplomats said such a mass recall had never happened in the history of the U.S. Foreign Service.