Category Archives: Arts & Literature
The New Yorker Magazine – April 28, 2025 Preview
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (April 21, 2025): Adrian Tomine’s “Lucky Dogs” – At least some of us are happy.By Françoise MoulyArt by Adrian Tomine
Donald Trump’s Deportation Obsession
Right-wing ideologues have long fantasized about the prospect of mass self-deportation: the Trump Administration is attempting something far more radical. By Jonathan Blitzer
How Trump Worship Took Hold in Washington
The President is at the center of a brazenly transactional ecosystem that rewards flattery and lockstep loyalty. By Antonia Hitchens
The Mexican President Who’s Facing Off with Trump
Can Claudia Sheinbaum manage the demands from D.C.—and her own country’s fragile democracy? By Stephania Taladrid
The Powerful Films of the L.A. Rebellion
Also: Adam Gopnik on where to eat near the Frick; Sondheim and Chekhov, Marisa Tomei and Lucas Hedges onstage; the kinetic Afro-pop of Youssou N’Dour; and more.
By Richard Brody, Michael Schulman, Sheldon Pearce, Helen Shaw, Brian Seibert, K. Leander Williams, Jane Bua, and Adam Gopnik
The New Criterion ——– May 2025 Preview
THE NEW CRITERION (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features…
The crime of noticing
On the writings of Renaud Camus. by Douglas Murray
There at “The New Yorker”
On A Century of Fiction in “The New Yorker”: 1925–2025, edited by Deborah Treisman. by Bruce Bawer
By measure he lived
On the great English architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. by Harry Adams
The whispers of Joseph Joubert
On Paul Auster’s translation of the French aphorist. by Mark LaFlaur
Times Literary Supplement – April 18, 2025 Preview
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Plays for Today’ – On what makes Shakespeare great; Miracles of Siena; Conversations about Gaza; Cyber insecurity and a Letter from Greenland…
The New Yorker Magazine – April 21, 2025 Preview
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (April 14, 2025): The latest issue features Frank Viva’s “Hot Air” – The chaos on Capitol Hill.
What the World Learned from Donald Trump’s Tariff Week
The danger behind the President’s posturing is that, by so emphatically insisting on America’s indispensability, he may be undermining it. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
What Comes After D.E.I.?
Colleges around the country, in the face of legal and political backlash to their diversity programs, are pivoting to an alternative framework known as pluralism. By Emma Green
How to Survive the A.I. Revolution
The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better? By John Cassidy
Humanities Magazine – Spring 2025 Preview
HUMANITIES MAGAZINE (April 10, 2025): The latest issue features Eliot Noyes, pictured here on the television show Omnibus, brought a sculptural grace to his work.
Corpus Linguistics Is Changing How Courts Interpret the Law
Monet Saving the World
Public art and politics
Why Spinoza Was Excommunicated
The Extreme Geometries of Bodys Isek Kingelez
Times Literary Supplement – April 11, 2025 Preview
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 9, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Burning Spitit’ – On capturing Dante; Dickens’s feverish imagination…
The New Yorker Magazine – April 14, 2025 Preview
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (April 7, 2025): The latest issue features Richard McGuire’s “Zooming In” – Peering at our relationship to technology. By Françoise MoulyArt by Richard McGuire
At the Smithsonian, Donald Trump Takes Aim at History
The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats everywhere. By David Remnick
Protecting the National Airspace, Post-DOGE
For nearly seventy years, the F.A.A.’s experimental safety lab near Atlantic City has run turbulence tests, set fire to seat cushions, and dropped crash-test dummies. Will it survive Elon Musk? By Robert Sullivan
Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user. By Kyle Chayka
The New York Review Of Books – April 24, 2025
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (April 3, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Spring Books’….
Charting an Unheroic Past
With her densely textured, ambitious, and deeply collaborative scholarship, the historian Catherine Hall has transformed public discourse about slavery.
Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism by Catherine Hall
The 176-Year Argument
At the University of Chicago all they wanted to know was, What’s the theory? At Yale all they wanted to know was, What’s the technique? At City College of New York all they wanted to know was, How does this relate to real life?
Lunar Myths and Mysteries
Two new books explore our growing scientific understanding of the moon as well as its powerful appeal to the imagination.
Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps, and Matter edited by Matthew Shindell, with a foreword by Dava Sobel
Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle
The London Magazine – April/May 2025 Preview
THE LONDON MAGAZINE (April 2, 2025): The latest issue takes the city as its muse:
Boomers Daily 