Category Archives: Arts & Literature

London Review Of Books – March 20, 2025 Preview

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LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 11, 2025): The latest issue features Mussolini to Meloni; A trip to Mar-a-Lago; The Brothers Grimm and Europe’s Holy Alliance…

Airborne

Sophie Cousins

Tuberculosis is the world’s most deadly infectious disease, killing more than a million people a year and infecting many millions more, even though treatment in the form of antibiotics has existed for seventy years. 

On Edward Said and Late Style

On Sunday, 9 March, at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, the City of London Sinfonia and the London Review of Books will be collaborating on an evening of music and readings inspired by Edward Said’s last, posthumous book, On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain.

The New Yorker Magazine – March 17, 2025 Preview

An illustration of chefs and staff preparing food in a kitchen.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 10, 2025): The latest issue cover features Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Masterpiece” – Delicious forms of innovation.

The Unchecked Authority of Greg Abbott

The Texas governor gained national attention by busing migrants to Democratic cities. Jonathan Blitzer reports on how he’s paving the way for President Trump’s mass-deportation campaign. By Jonathan Blitzer

Trump’s Agenda Is Undermining American Science

Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time. This Administration threatens that progress. By Dhruv Khullar

How the Red Scare Reshaped American Politics

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded—and from how it came to an end? By Beverly Gage

The American Scholar – Spring 2025 Issue Preview

THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR (March 8, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Tiger, Tiger’ – Searching for the elusive big cat means learning to see the world anew…

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind By Elizabeth Kadetsky

Asteroid Hunters

The scientists and engineers who defend our planet day and night from potentially hazardous space rocks By Jessie Wilde

American Carthage

Echoes from the ancient conflicts between Hannibal’s city and Rome continue to reverberate well into the present By Charles G. Salas

The New York Review Of Books – March 27, 2025

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 6, 2025):

Ordinary Germans

We know who the Nazis were and what they did. In Hitler’s People, the distinguished historian Richard J. Evans seeks to explain what made them capable of doing it.

Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

A Self Divided

Since the rise of cable TV, corporations have sought to capture our valuable attention. But the way social media shatters our ability to focus has new implications for public discourse and politics.

The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes

Cases Closed

How would the Mueller investigation have unfolded if the Supreme Court’s recent, chilling Trump v. United States decision been in effect?

Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia, and the Mueller Investigation by Aaron Zebley, James Quarles, and Andrew Goldstein, with a preface by Robert S. Mueller III

Times Literary Supplement – March 7, 2025 Preview

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Troubled Mind’ – Oliver Sack’s personal demons…

A fresh classical sunlight

Revisiting W. H. Auden’s postwar poetry collection The Shield of Achilles By John Fuller

Awakening

The inner life of Oliver Sacks, as revealed by his letters By Andrew Scull

Royal Acacemy Of Arts Magazine – Spring 2025

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RA Magazine Spring 2025 Issue (March 4, 2025): The cover of the latest RA Magazine features The Dream (1866) by Victor Hugo, subject of the RA exhibition Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo. 

Inside, cultural experts including Antony Gormley RA and Cameron Mackintosh reveal the visionary art of the author of Les Misérables. Plus: how Brazilian artists evolved a sense of place through art, from tropical modern fantasies to contemporary responses to colonial legacies; a visit to the Balearic Islands to see prize-winning social-housing built from locally quarried stone; an interview with artist-couple Michael Landy RA and Gillian Wearing RA; and ‘Inside the mind’ of maverick artist Helen Chadwick.

Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo

21 March – 29 June 2025

The Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries | Burlington House

Discover the imaginary worlds of Victor Hugo, one of France’s most famous writers, at this exhibition of his rarely-seen works on paper.

Art: Apollo Magazine – March 2025 Preview

‘A Concert’ by Lorenzo Costa on the cover of the March 2025 issue of Apollo

APOLLO MAGAZINE (March 3, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Performance art in Renaissance Italy’; Versailles in the 21st century and How to give back looted objects…

It’s time for the UK to act on restitution

An interview with Alex Da Corte

The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Music-making in Renaissance Italy

Including a new golden age at Versailles, Cycladic art over the centuries, the dangers of living in Los Angeles, Tracey Emin’s passion for painting, what new EU import laws will do to the art market, and a preview of TEFAF Maastricht; plus reviews of modernism in Brazil, the drawings of Henri Michaux, and the essays of Svetlana Alpers. And: Tessa Hadley on Bellini’s shocking depiction of the making of a martyr

The New Yorker Magazine – March 10, 2025 Preview

A bowl of oranges mirrors the sun.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 3, 2025): The latest issue features Christoph Niemann’s “Vitamin N.Y.C.” – Bright spots amid gloomy winter months.

Trump’s Disgrace

While F.D.R. set a modern standard for the revitalization of a society, Trump seems determined to prove how quickly he can spark its undoing. By David Remnick

Menopause Is Having a Moment

If you’ve got ovaries, you’ll go through it. So why does every generation think it’s the first to have hot flashes? By Rebecca Mead

Will Harvard Bend or Break?

Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America’s oldest university—and the soul of higher education. By Nathan Heller

Books: Literary Review – March 2025 Preview

LITERARY REVIEW (March 1, 2025): The latest issue features…

Death from the Clouds – Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan By Richard Overy

The Sultan & the Concubine – The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King By Christopher de Bellaigue

Freedom Readers – The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War By Charlie English