THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features…
Great genes by David Dubal
A critic’s power lies in the testing of deeply held beliefs about the nature of art and art’s place in the world against the experience of specific artworks.
Authority by Andrea Long Chu
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
Those Passions: On Art and Politics by T.J. Clark
Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies by Jonathan Kramnick
No Judgment by Lauren Oyler
The MAGA movement is not fed by conservative ideas but by a nihilistic, apocalyptic determination to stage a counterrevolution against the Sixties, against liberalism, against even democracy itself.
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz
Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right by Laura K. Field
Early modern female writers, who were denied the sort of authority usually needed to write literary criticism, were also freed from its constraints.
Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Artist in the making: Joyce Carol Oates on Sally Mann’s photographic craft’
The British upper classes today By Michael Hall
A how-to book by ‘one of the greatest’ American photographers’ By Joyce Carol Oates
László Krasznahorkai, Nobel laureate in literature By George Szirtes
Religion, immigration, gender politics and severed heads By Mary Beard
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features ‘Mrs. Dalloway’s Demons
The Inner Life of ‘Mrs Dalloway’
by Edward Mendelson.
Columbia, 137 pp., £20, September, 978 0 231 22171 9
‘Mrs Dalloway’: Biography of a Novel
by Mark Hussey.
Manchester, 222 pp., £18.99, May, 978 1 5261 7681 3
Mrs Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf, edited by Edward Mendelson.
NYRB, 208 pp., £15.99, September, 978 1 68137 998 2
Mrs Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf, edited by Trudi Tate.
Oxford, 224 pp., £7.99, May, 978 0 19 285985 3
Gustave Flaubert et Michel Lévy: Un couple explosif
by Yvan Leclerc and Jean-Yves Mollier.
Le Livre de Poche, 224 pp., €8.40, November 2024, 978 2 253 94112 5
Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World
by Corey Ross.
Princeton, 447 pp., £35, September 2024, 978 0 691 21144 2
In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings
by James C. Scott.
Yale, 220 pp., £20, February, 978 0 300 27849 1
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Harry Bliss’s “Cannonball” – The delights of fall.
Congress wrote statutes with the apparent assumption that whoever held the office of the Presidency would use the powers they granted in good faith. By Jeannie Suk Gersen
Smoking a cig takes twenty minutes off your life. But thinking about Rudy Giuliani’s downfall might add some time back. By Greg Clarke
How conservatives learned to stop worrying and love federal power. By Emma Green
The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor? By Eric Lach
THE LONDON MAGAZINE (April 2, 2025): The latest issue features….
‘Several broadly millennial acquaintances confess that reading the book made them feel a sort of sickening recognition.’
Yasmina Snyder spoke to writers, poets, musicians and event organisers based in London about the connections between live music and poetry, and the spaces that host them.
‘There’s big trouble in the world of little magazines. In the last two years, an alarming number have vanished into that second-hand bookshop in the sky. Each leaves the world a little quieter, a little poorer.’
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Brian Stauffer’s “Winds of Change” – A gust of fall.
Peace abroad and war at home? It’s an unusual note to strike in an electoral democracy. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
President Nixon got the brothers’ variety show cancelled after they wouldn’t let up on Vietnam. In the wake of the new late-night wars, Dick Smothers is having flashbacks. By Bruce Handy
As the thirtysomething leader of Finland, Sanna Marin pursued an ambitious policy agenda. The press focussed on her nights out and how she paid for breakfast. By Jennifer Wilson
The chief prosecutor has obtained warrants against Israeli leaders for war crimes—but faces allegations of sexual misconduct. By David D. Kirkpatrick
THE WEEK IN ART (October 2, 2025): The latest episode feature a new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, called Made in Ancient Egypt, reveals untold stories of the people behind a host of remarkable objects, and the technology and techniques they used.
The Art Newspaper’s digital editor, Alexander Morrison visits the museum to take a tour with the curator, Helen Strudwick. One of the great revelations of the past two decades in scholarship about women artists is Michaelina Wautier, the Baroque painter active in what is now Belgium in the middle of the 17th century. The largest ever exhibition of Wautier’s work opened this week at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and travels to the Royal Academy of Arts in London next year.
Ben Luke speaks to the art historian who rediscovered this extraordinary painter, Katlijne Van der Stighelen, who has also co-edited the catalogue of the Vienna show. And this episode’s Work of the Week is Robert Rauschenberg’s Bed (1955), one of the most important works of US art of the post-war period. It features in the exhibition Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, which this week arrives at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
We speak to Yilmaz Dziewior, the co-curator of the exhibition.
Made in Ancient Egypt, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, 3 October-2 April 2026
Michaelina Wautier, Painter, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
30 September-22 February 2026; Royal Academy of Arts, London
27 March – 21 June 2026.
Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany,
3 October-11 January 2026
Fights about digital filtering tools have turned more and more bitter. That’s because of their extraordinary power to shape both political opinion and mass culture.
Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality by Renée DiResta
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
The Soviet Union’s ambitious program of gender equality could never be separated from its abuses of power.
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy by Julia Ioffe
Shadow Ticket is brisker than Thomas Pynchon’s other work, but it’s full of his usual vaudevillian sensibility, and it addresses his favorite theme: how to live freely under powerful systems of control.
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
APOLLO MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Hew Locke and the Empire’s new clothes | Princeton University Art Museum reopens | William Hogarth’s bedside manner | the many faces of Nigerian modernism
On the eve of a major US survey, the artist talks to Apollo about decorating statues and the ornamental side of the British Empire
By turns picturesque and insalubrious, mews houses have a compellingly chequered past
Eclectic art and innovative curation are helping Art Basel Paris fly the flag for the French art market
Work by late 20th-century and contemporary Chinese artists has been throwing up surprises recently
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