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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JANUARY 9, 2026 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Constable vs Turner’ by Ferdinand Mount….

As unalike as ever

Turner is on our banknotes, Constable in our hearts By Ferdinand Mount

Coming out of Tate Britain just before noon on Budget Day, you are blinded by a blistering white sun behind Vauxhall Cross. The steepling glass towers south of the river are washed in an opal mist, the ziggurats of the MI6 HQ eclipsed to a ruined beige. Vauxhall Bridge gleams in the scarlet and yellow of a Turner sunset. J. M. W. would have rushed to the Embankment, whipped out his sketchbook, then worked up the whole shimmering scene into a six-footer and called it something like “The End of England”. John Constable would probably have turned away to catch the next coach to Hampstead Heath to paint Branch Hill Pond again.

‘One day, they’ll find me out’

How the young Dylan Thomas repeatedly stole from others By Alessandro Gallenzi

Mother was always right

A love-hate relationship recalled by France’s ‘greatest living writer’ By Marie Darrieussecq

The notebook fallacy

Why stylish stationery won’t change your life By Ian Sansom

Arts & Literature, Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JANUARY 12, 2026

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People walking down a freezing street pass a cat snuggly sleeping in a window.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Harry Bliss’s “Wintry Mix” – Braving the cold.

What Will New York’s New Map Show Us?

Voters voted for it, even if they weren’t sure what it was. But maps are the ideal metaphor for our models of what the world might be. By Adam Gopnik

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Big Breakup

The congresswoman split with the President over the Epstein files, then she quit. Where will she go from here? By Charles Bethea

The Making of the First American Pope

Will Pope Leo XIV follow the progressive example of his predecessor or chart a more moderate course? His work in Chicago and Peru may shed light on his approach. By Paul Elie

Art, Arts & Literature, Exhibitions, History, Magazines, Museums

APOLLO MAGAZINE – JANUARY 2026 PREVIEW

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January 2026

APOLLO MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘In search of Gerhard Richter’; the man who reinvented Notre-Dame; why won’t Labour help the arts? and announcing the Apollo 40

Gerhard Richter at full scale

A mammoth retrospective in Paris confirms the German artist as one of the world’s greatest living painters – and one of the most elusive

On Viollet-le-Duc, the punchbag of Notre-Dame

While the architect’s approach to restoring France’s medieval buildings remains controversial, his many and varied talents are still utterly awe-inspiring

Finishing the Sagrada Família

Antonio Gaudi’s masterpiece is nearing completion a century after the architect’s death

When it comes to views of Venice, Canaletto is still master of all he surveys

Demand for the best paintings of the city shows no sign of sinking, but some artists have a more buoyant market than others

Should museums be making spectacles of themselves?

If galleries and institutions want to grow their visitor numbers, they need to add style to their substance

Arts & Literature, Books, History, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – JANUARY 15, 2026

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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?

Arts & Literature, Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 29, 2025

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features “Goodbye to All That,” by Lorenzo Mattotti.

What Zohran Mamdani Is Up Against

When the thirty-four-year-old socialist is sworn in as mayor, he will have to navigate ICE raids, intransigent city power players, and twists of fate and nature. By Eric Lach

Why Millennials Love Prenups

Long the province of the ultra-wealthy, prenuptial agreements are being embraced by young people—including many who don’t have all that much to divvy up. By Jennifer Wilson

Peter Navarro, Trump’s Ultimate Yes-Man

The tariff cheerleader established the template of sycophancy for Trump Administration officials. By Ian Parker

Arts & Literature, Books, History, Newspapers, Reviews

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW – DECEMBER 21, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘Fight The Power’

John Darnielle: ‘Polish Literature Is a Whole Wondrous World!’

The novelist and musician is a voracious reader of books in translation. In “This Year,” he annotates the literary lyrics to 365 of his own songs.

Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut Had Something to Say. We Have It on Tape.

Rare recordings of E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver and more offer a tour through literary history led by authors in their own words — and voices. Take a listen.

Once a Year the French Literary Scene Goes to the Dogs (Cats, Too)

It’s the day the “Animal Goncourt” is awarded. “Who better,” a judge says, “to talk about the fabulous relationship between animals and men than writers and philosophers?”

Arts & Literature, Books, Culture, Magazines, Reviews

The New Criterion – January 2026 Preview

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THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features…

Reflections on the revolution: an introduction

On George Washington’s Farewell Address of 1796. by Roger Kimball

Conceived in liberty

On revolution and counterrevolution in America. by Myron Magnet

Burke’s revolutionary reflection

On the Gordon riots of 1780. by Dominic Green

The great divorce

On the causes of the American Revolution. by Andrew Roberts

Arts & Literature, Books, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – DECEMBER 25, 2025 PREVIEW

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LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features ‘Will the AI Bubble burst?’


Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography by Tom Arnold-Forster


The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt

The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim

Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination by Karen Hao

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race that Will Change the World by Parmy Olson


Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments and the Birth of Modern Science by Philip Ball

Arts & Literature, Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 22, 2025

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Illustrated figures doing whimsical activities in an M.C. Escher-style building.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Cartoons & Puzzles: A magazine maze, cartoonists on their forebears, Stephen Sondheim’s puzzle love, a hundredth-birthday diary, and more.

The Year In Trump Cashing In

In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of them involving crypto and foreign money. By John Cassidy

In the Wake of Australia’s Hanukkah Beach Massacre

A conversation about the country’s unique Jewish community and rising levels of antisemitism.

The Federal Judge at the Trump Rally

Emil Bove violated a basic tenet of judicial ethics, presumably on purpose. By Ruth Marcus

History’s Judgment of Those Who Go Along

Some civil servants and senior officials in the Trump Administration are experiencing bouts of conscience

Arts & Literature, Fiction, Magazines, Poetry, Previews, Views

Zyzzyva Magazine – WINTER 2025-2026

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ZYZZYVA Magazine: The latest issue features…

Nonfiction

“The Fighters” by Joe Donnelly: on being transplanted as a boy from New Jersey to Ireland, and the grim school days spent at Willow Park primary school in Dublin.

“Fire Watching” by Harmony Holiday: a mediation on Los Angeles, its devastating fires, and finding meaning.

“The Deer” by Raia Small: “I have never killed anyone, so I can say that I don’t understand. But I am getting to know my own cruelties …”

Fiction

“A Long Line of Violence” by Tomas Moniz: A duo travels from the Mission District to Lassen Volcanic National Park to return a rifle to its battleground.

“Plums” by Feroz Rather: A young man steals as much time as he can with his beloved among the orchards and buses of his town in Kashmir.

“Viable” by Suzanne Rivecca: “The person I call in situations like this is Colette, the city government version of me, an abstinent ex-junkie disliked by the mayor, with a soft spot for schizophrenics, a love for lancing abscesses, and zero work/life balance.”

Poetry

Brian Ang, Nica Giromini, Kelly Gray, Michael Kennedy Costa, Kayla Krut, Maw Shein Win, Jared Stanley, and John Yau.

In Conversation

Chris Feliciano Arnold talks to Venezuelan scholar, journalist, and poet Boris Muñoz about literature, authoritarianism, and the importance of cronistas.