TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (January 8, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ – The evolution of morality.
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The New York Times Book Review – December 29, 2024
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (December 29, 2024): The latest issue features…
The Novel About U.S. Politics So Outrageous It Nearly Wasn’t Published
Robert Coover’s “The Public Burning” was met with bafflement and awe when it appeared in 1977. Reality has finally caught up to his masterpiece.
The Hottest Trend in Publishing: Books You Can Judge by Their Cover
Elaborately designed books with patterned edges and other effects started as a trend in romance and fantasy, and have now spread throughout the publishing industry.
Marvel Comics as Penguin Classics? Elda Rotor Heard a ‘Hell Yeah’
“I get real geek joy out of learning something new,” says the imprint’s vice president and publisher. She’s proud to have broadened the definition of a classic during her tenure.
The New York Review Of Books – January 16, 2025
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (December 26, 2024): The latest issue features…
Rebels Without a Cause
In Sam Gold’s Romeo + Juliet, the lovers’ headlong rush into marriage is in tension throughout with the surprising regression to childhood that characterizes so much of the production.
Romeo + Juliet – a play by William Shakespeare, directed by Sam Gold, at Circle in the Square, New York City, October 24, 2024–February 16, 2025
Joy and Apprehension in Syria
There is widespread relief after Assad’s fall, though no one is more aware than Syrians themselves of the dangers and challenges that await them.
Evolution in the Dock
In her new book, Brenda Wineapple brings to life one of the most inflamed chapters in the history of America’s culture wars: the Scopes trial of 1925.
Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation by Brenda Wineapple
International Art: Apollo Magazine – January 2025
APOLLO MAGAZINE (December 23, 2024): The latest issue features…
Back to the future? The art of divination
Will the art market recover in 2025?
An interview with Jake Grewal
The New Yorker Magazine Dec. 30, 2024 & Jan. 6, 2025
The New Yorker (December 23, 2024): Diana Ejaita’s “Midnight Moments” – The magical blur of New Year’s Eve.
How Much Does Our Language Shape Our Thinking?
English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result. By Manvir Singh
Alice Munro’s Passive Voice
The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story. By Rachel Aviv
Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome?
The history of recorded music is now at our fingertips. But the streamer’s algorithmic skill at giving us what we like may keep us from what we’ll love. By Hua Hsu
The New York Times Book Review – Dec. 22, 2024
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (December 22, 2024): The latest features…
When Stephen Sondheim Transformed Theater, and Theatergoers, Forever
An incisive new book, “How Sondheim Can Change Your Life,”
The Books Readers Loved in 2024
Memorable characters, delightful nonfiction and poignant novels stuck with people across the world.
Why One of the World’s Most Elusive Writers Still Haunts Readers
Newly translated letters reveal the inner life of Paul Celan, offering clues to his enigmatic poems.
Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’
THE ART NEWSPAPER (December 20, 2024): It is the final episode of 2024 and so, as always, we review the year, looking at the top stories, the big issues and the best art.
Host Ben Luke is joined by The Art Newspaper’s contemporary art correspondent, Louisa Buck, our art market editor, Kabir Jhala, and Ben Sutton, our editor in the Americas.
Under discussion, among much else: the growing faultlines between institutions and artists in relation to Gaza; the big museum stories, from Saudi Arabian funding to attacks on artworks and restitution; a market roundup; culture and the climate emergency; and the panel’s exhibitions and biennials of the year.
Times Literary Supplement December 20, 2024 Preview
The Atlantic Magazine – January 2025 Preview
The Atlantic Magazine (December 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Seamus Heaney, My Father, and Me’ by Catlin Flanagan…
Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment
What Seamus Heaney gave me
The Crumbling Foundation of America’s Military
The U.S. failed to produce weapons and ammunition fast enough to supply Ukraine. Could it equip its own armed forces in the event of war?
Maybe Democrats Didn’t Do So Badly After All
The party’s debate about reinventing itself after the election has gotten more complicated.
The New Yorker Magazine – December 23, 2024 Issue
The New Yorker Magazine (December 16, 2024): Kate Beaton’s “A Murder Mystery” – Take a closer look at the cover of the annual Cartoons & Puzzles Issue.
Syria After Assad
The scramble is on to define the future of Syria, quickly, to avert a war even more divisive than the conflict that has riven the nation for thirteen years. By Robin Wright
The Secret History of Risotto
The dish is governed by a set of laws that are rooted in tradition, rich in common sense, and aching to be broken or bent. By Anthony Lane
Brady Corbet’s Outsider American Epic
“The Brutalist,” the director’s nearly four-hour study of immigration, identity, and marriage, flowed from his own struggle to create art without compromise. “You really have to dare to suck to transcend,” he said. By Alexandra Schwartz
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