Category Archives: Arts & Literature

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – MAY 4, 2026 PREVIEW

The cover of the May 4 2026 issue of The New Yorker on which people practice yoga in Central Park.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Tomer Hanuka’s “Spring Salutations” – Central Park flow.

Donald Trump’s Spring Cleaning

The exact reasons are often left vague and the successors to be determined, but people are leaving the Administration—including three Cabinet secretaries. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Can the E.P.A. Survive Lee Zeldin?

The agency, which was founded to protect the environment and human health, has cancelled safety regulations, supported coal, and stopped caring about climate change. By Elizabeth Kolbert

Donald Trump’s Economic Warfare Abroad Comes Home

From tariffs to the war with Iran, the President is blowing up the global economy.

With Susan B. GlasserJane Mayer, and Evan Osnos

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – MAY 14, 2026

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Jed Perl on the Whitney Biennial, Fintan O’Toole on the president’s precarious sanity, Nicole Rudick on June Leaf’s unique vision, Clare Bucknell on know-it-alls, Julian Bell on Joseph Wright of Derby, Dennis Lim on low-resolution cinema, Elaine Blair on the Guerrilla Girls, Mark O’Connell on a death in London, Martin Filler on David Adjaye’s demons, Nick Laird on the complete Seamus Heaney, Rosa Lyster on the evaporating salt lakes, Susan Tallman on Manet and Morisot, poems by Paul Muldoon and Fiona Sze-Lorrain, and much more.

‘The Right Amount of Crazy’

In Trump’s strategy of feigning madness to get what he wants, there is no longer any border between pretense and actual irrationality. By Fintan O’Toole

Charlatans & Bores

The profile of the pedant has changed surprisingly across time periods and cultures, but what’s constant is that nobody wants to be called one.

On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser

‘The Music of What Happens’

Seamus Heaney’s complete poems, following on editions of his letters, prose, and translations, confirm the extent of his achievement.

The Poems of Seamus Heaney edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue, with Matthew Hollis

Manet and Morisot: Game On

An important exhibition showcases a painterly repartee that altered the trajectory of the two artists’ work and, by extension, modern art itself.

Manet and Morisot – an exhibition at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, October 11, 2025–March 1, 2026, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, March 29–July 5, 2026

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – APRIL 27, 2026 PREVIEW

The cover for the April 27 2026 issue of The New Yorker on which three people are playing a basketball game on a court.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Christoph Niemann’s “West Fourth” – One of the city’s most iconic courts.

J. D. Vance’s Bumpy Ride

It wasn’t the first time that Trump had debased someone who serves him. It wasn’t even the first time that Vance had had to downplay a blasphemy-themed A.I. image. By Amy Davidson Sorkin

When Your Digital Life Vanishes

A broken phone or corrupted drive can mean the loss of work, evidence, art, or the last traces of the dead. But sometimes data-recovery experts can summon lost files from the void. By Julian Lucas

How Professional Wrestling Prepared Linda McMahon for Trump’s Cabinet

The Education Secretary ran the W.W.E. for years with her husband, Vince, an unstable man who, like her new boss, has a genius for inflaming the crowd. By Zach Helfand

Was Raphael the Runt of the Renaissance?

Many have called him boring, a peddler of simpleminded beauty. At the Met, a blockbuster exhibition restores his standing. By Zachary Fine

The New Criterion ———- MAY 2026 Preview

THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features ‘ Western Decline’ by Victor Davis Hanson; Stoppard & Stopparianism by Jonathan Gaisman; The hector’s veto by Simon Heffer; The metaphysics of murder by Theodore Dalrypmple and New poems by Alfred Corn, Michael Homolka and Sunil Iyengar…

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – APRIL 23, 2026 PREVIEW

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features

At the National Gallery: Holbein and Henry James

The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way out of the Stone Age by Steven Mithen

Surf’s Up: Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys by Peter Doggett

Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Seduction, Intrigue and Power by Sonia Purnell

Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India by Srinath Raghavan

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – APRIL 17, 2026 PREVIEW

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘The many faces of Shakespeare’….

History lessons?

China, America and the danger of war By Philip Zelikow

A man of property

Discovering exactly what Shakespeare owned By Lucy Munro

Go deeper

Blake Morrison’s guide to life writing By Joyce Carol Oates

Out of sheer intention

Writing about others as a means to write about yourself By Catherine Taylor

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – APRIL 20, 2026 PREVIEW

A young girl in her stroller comes nosetonose with a dolledup doggie in a pet pram.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Meet-Cute” – The next generation.

Trump’s Strategic and Moral Failure in Iran

From the first day of his Presidency, Trump has posed an emergency to both his country and the world. By David Remnick

The Car-Crash Conspiracy

High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy. By Patrick Radden Keefe

St. Paul Remade Human History. How Did He Do It?

New scholarship reconsiders the apostle who turned a Jewish sect into a world religion—and whose legacy remains contested two millennia later.
By Adam Gopnik

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – APRIL 13, 2026 PREVIEW

The cover of the April 13 2026 Future Issue of The New Yorker in which a man smiles as he types on a screen attached to...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Christoph Niemann’s “New Horizons” – Technology and the future.

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth’s Warped Vision of the Iran War

The two men might wish that they lived in a world where whoever dropped the most bombs got whatever he wanted. But the war has shown that this isn’t true. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Why Are People Injecting Themselves with Peptides?

Health and wellness influencers are hawking unapproved treatments on the gray market. The future of the F.D.A.—and the health of consumers—is at stake. By Dhruv Khullar

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

By Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – APRIL 23, 2026

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features a dispatch from Tehran, Jed Perl on Morgan Meis’s funky kind of art criticism, Francine Prose on MAGA fiction, Caroline Fraser on the dump, Michael Gorra on Civil War diaries, David Cole on the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, Hermione Lee on Virginia Woolf’s letters, Trevor Jackson on American “retirement,” Kathryn Hughes on Tennyson’s cosmos, Colm Tóibín on Irish reunification, a collage by Lucy Sante, poems by Andrea Cohen and Timmy Straw, and much more.


From the Rooftops of Tehran

We in Iran own our grief, mourning all by ourselves.

Living Through the Civil War

George Templeton Strong’s diaries provide the North’s best record of daily passions and woes during its struggle against the South.

George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries edited by Geoff Wisner

‘A Vast Symphony of Stone’

In his renovation of Notre-Dame, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc projected his own Romantic vision of the Middle Ages onto the Gothic cathedral.

Viollet-le-Duc: Drawing Worlds an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York City, January 28–May 24, 2026

The Aging Class

Retirement, like so much of the American economy, is a broken system that benefits private interests and exploits the most vulnerable people.

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel

Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy by Teresa Ghilarducci, with a foreword by E. J. Dionne Jr.

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – APRIL 3, 2026 PREVIEW

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features Claude Rawson on the British Imagination; ‘Trump’s Whisperers; Hardy’s breakthrough novel; Thomas Mann today…

Cultural superpower?

An argument for ‘British is best’

The argument of Peter Watson’s hugely ambitious The British Imagination: A history of ideas from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II is that “The essential arc of British history – intellectual and creative history, just as much as political, economic and military history – is of a small, indeed tiny, country sequestered on the north-west coast of Europe that over the centuries would forge the largest and most unlikely empire the world has seen”. It may seem odd to be reading this in the present depressed state of the nation, although Watson stresses from the outset that the concept of “the British imagination” embraces its hospitality to foreign influences and eventually to the power of a wider “Anglosphere”.

English virtue battles the pagan

The genesis of Far from the Madding Crowd

The texture of etcetera

What smartphones can’t record

Freeing Thomas Mann

Modern English translations that do justice to the work