LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features ‘Visions of America’
Made in Tehran
Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History by Vali Nasr.
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – FEBRUARY 5, 2026 PREVIEW
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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – FEBRUARY 12, 2026
A More Pliant Chavista
President Trump’s decision to support Delcy Rodríguez as Venezuela’s new leader makes clear that oil, not democracy, is his main concern.
Whose Hemisphere?
The US capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro reinforces the Trump administration’s capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.
Epic Ambitions
A new life of Gertrude Stein treats her as a philosopher of language to trust, not explain—and gathers force from archival discoveries and intriguing plots of her reception and reputation.
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade
Is the Constitution ‘Dead, Dead, Dead’?
The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.
We the People: A History of the US Constitution by Jill Lepore
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JANUARY 23, 2026 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘The state of British poetry’ by Tristram Fane Saunders…
Anon and on
The forward march of British poetry
First class delivery?
A history of childbirth and a defence of the C-section
By Leah Hazard
Portraits of the ‘Black Venus’
Newly discovered photographs of Baudelaire’s muse
Fathoms deep
The thrill of marine archaeology
By Alan Jenkins
The New Criterion – FEBRUARY 2026 Preview
THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features…
More than doctrinaire by Steven McGregor
Loving Malcolm Cowley by Bruce Bawer
Robert A. M. Stern, 1939–2025 by Peter Pennoyer
The Peruvian uncertainty principle by James Como
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – JANUARY 22, 2026 PREVIEW
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…
The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping by Joseph Torigian
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China by Michael Sheridan
On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the World by Kevin Rudd
Short Cuts: On Venezuela
Cicero: The Man and His Works by Andrew R. Dyck
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution that Changed America by Sam Tanenhaus
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JANUARY 9, 2026 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Constable vs Turner’ by Ferdinand Mount….
As unalike as ever
Turner is on our banknotes, Constable in our hearts By Ferdinand Mount
Coming out of Tate Britain just before noon on Budget Day, you are blinded by a blistering white sun behind Vauxhall Cross. The steepling glass towers south of the river are washed in an opal mist, the ziggurats of the MI6 HQ eclipsed to a ruined beige. Vauxhall Bridge gleams in the scarlet and yellow of a Turner sunset. J. M. W. would have rushed to the Embankment, whipped out his sketchbook, then worked up the whole shimmering scene into a six-footer and called it something like “The End of England”. John Constable would probably have turned away to catch the next coach to Hampstead Heath to paint Branch Hill Pond again.
‘One day, they’ll find me out’
How the young Dylan Thomas repeatedly stole from others By Alessandro Gallenzi
Mother was always right
A love-hate relationship recalled by France’s ‘greatest living writer’ By Marie Darrieussecq
The notebook fallacy
Why stylish stationery won’t change your life By Ian Sansom
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – JANUARY 15, 2026
‘Minimum Victory’
Weary of war and staring down the likelihood of an unjust peace, Ukrainian intellectuals are plotting out a road map for the future.
East Side Story
Josh Safdie’s new film, starring Timothée Chalamet, is both a character study of monomania and a moving fable of how the American century of table tennis was lost.
L’Affaire Carlson
Concern over antisemitism on the right has split the conservative world in two—and GOP gatekeepers have lost the ability to contain it.
‘They Killed Our People’
More than a century after white mobs in Elaine, Arkansas, murdered hundreds of black sharecroppers in 1919, the massacre’s memory remains contested.
‘The Ancient and Long-Forgotten Language of Cinematography’
If the movies are dead, why does Bi Gan’s Resurrection feel so alive?
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW – DECEMBER 21, 2025
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘Fight The Power’
John Darnielle: ‘Polish Literature Is a Whole Wondrous World!’
The novelist and musician is a voracious reader of books in translation. In “This Year,” he annotates the literary lyrics to 365 of his own songs.
Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut Had Something to Say. We Have It on Tape.
Rare recordings of E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver and more offer a tour through literary history led by authors in their own words — and voices. Take a listen.
Once a Year the French Literary Scene Goes to the Dogs (Cats, Too)
It’s the day the “Animal Goncourt” is awarded. “Who better,” a judge says, “to talk about the fabulous relationship between animals and men than writers and philosophers?”
The New Criterion – January 2026 Preview
THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features…
Reflections on the revolution: an introduction
On George Washington’s Farewell Address of 1796. by Roger Kimball
Conceived in liberty
On revolution and counterrevolution in America. by Myron Magnet
Burke’s revolutionary reflection
On the Gordon riots of 1780. by Dominic Green
The great divorce
On the causes of the American Revolution. by Andrew Roberts
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – DECEMBER 25, 2025 PREVIEW
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features ‘Will the AI Bubble burst?’
Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography by Tom Arnold-Forster
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt
The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim
Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination by Karen Hao
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race that Will Change the World by Parmy Olson
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