TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 9, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Burning Spitit’ – On capturing Dante; Dickens’s feverish imagination…
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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
Times Literary Supplement – April 4, 2025 Preview
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 2, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Art and Lifestyle’ – On visual culture in the era of AI…
A bad business
Recalculating the economic gains of slavery By Padraic X. Scanlan
Raging bull
Rejecting the narrative of Picasso the monster to women By Lisa Hilton
Rebirth of the modern
The future of art and artists in the era of artificial intelligence By Aaron Peck
Writer, lawyer, banker, cleaner
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s tale of four women – and many social ills By Houman Barekat
Books: Literary Review – April 2025 Preview
LITERARY REVIEW (April 1, 2025): The April 2025 issue features ‘Henry James Goes West’; Russia’s Secret Wars’ Josephine Baker Uncovered; Besotted With Blake and Tale of Two America’s…
Tinker, Tailor, Sleeper, Troll
The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West By Shaun Walker
The Restless Analyst
Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age By Peter Brooks
On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays By Henry James (Edited by Michael Gorra)
Merger or Acquisition?
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America By Russell Shorto
London Review Of Books – April 3, 2025 Preview
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 26, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Regime Change in the West’; Marvelous Mavis Gallant; Executive Order 14168; Long Ling visits the new Bejing…
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Normandy: The Sailors’ Story by Nick Hewitt
D-Day, the Oral History: The Turning Point of World War Two by the People Who Were There by Garrett M. Graff
Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1 by Karl Marx, edited by Paul North and Paul Reitter, translated by Paul Reitter
Times Literary Supplement – March 28, 2025 Preview
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 26, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Many Muses’ – The women who inspired Rainer Maria Rilke; The real prime minister; Elon Musk’s big wink; The occult world of Ithell Colquhoun…
Los Angeles Review Of Books – Spring 2025 Issue
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 25, 2025): The latest issue is titled Pressure, with all new essays, poetry, and short fiction zeroed in on pressure, resilience, and the break—figurative and literal.
Features
The Pool at The LINE by Maya Binyam
Dark Waters and Sorcerer by Sam Bodrojan
Nonfiction
Points of Entry: On Lebanon and broken glass by Mary Turfah
Rising from Her Verses: The poetry and politics of Julia de Burgos by Sophia Stewart
Mann Men: Exploring an oeuvre of men in crisis by Clayton Purdom
Jolted out of Our Aesthetic Skins: Mario Kart and fiction in Las Vegas by Simon Wu
Beautiful Aimlessness: The cultural footprint of Giant Robot by Oliver Wang
In Its Purest Form: Reading Lolita on its 70th anniversary by Claire Messud
Perfect Momentum: How to crash someone else’s car by Dorie Chevlen
Comic
Mafalda by Quino, translated by Frank Wynne
Fiction
The Tragedy Brotherhood by O F Cieri
The Eagle’s Nest by Devin Thomas O’Shea
Excerpt
The Heir Conditioner: from Mother Media by Hannah Zeavin
Poetry
Minister of Loneliness by Ansel Elkins
Iterations by Tracy Fuad
Moon over Brooklyn by Daniel Halpern
You by Laura Kolbe
Third Act by Tamara Nassar
Still, my brother’s flag flies by Jorrell Watkins
Art
Melvin Edwards
Tyeb Mehta
The New York Review Of Books – April 10, 2025
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 20, 2025): The latest issue features Michael Gorra on the majesty of Caspar David Friedrich, Cathleen Schine on Hanif Kureishi, Wendy Doniger on letting slip the horses of war, Adam Thirlwell on Lars von Trier, Christian Caryl on denazification, Miri Rubin on Christian supremacy, Jonathan Mingle on the phosphorous shortfall, Brenda Wineapple on the history of American social movements, Geoffrey O’Brien on Fifties Hollywood, Christopher R. Browning on Trump’s antisemitism, poems by Witold Wirpsza and Laura Kolbe, and much more.
Toffler in China
The work of the eclectic American futurist exerted a profound and unanticipated influence on China’s digital transformation since the 1980s.
Lost in the Landscape
The Met’s Caspar David Friedrich exhibition offers an introduction to an artist whose work—luminous, disturbing, serene—reveals an all-encompassing physical realm.
Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature – an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, February 8–May 11, 2025
Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New Age – an exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, December 15, 2023–April 1, 2024
The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time by Florian Illies, translated from the German by Tony Crawford
The Rise and Fall of Warhorses
You can tell the history of a large part of the world by who had what horses when.
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires by David Chaffetz
Times Literary Supplement – March 21, 2025 Preview
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘An extraordinary woman’ = Gisele Pelicot’s dignity before a watching world; What I learnt from Athol Fugard; Caspar David Friedrich; Stalin’s don and Hitler’s royal allies…
Times Literary Supplement – March 14, 2025 Preview
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Only Way Is Down’ – On hopeful pessimism; The death of a poet in war; On democracy; Did museums purchase or plunder and Crippen’s crimes…
Cold comfort farm
Hope, despair and retreat in an unquiet age By Kieran Setiya
Taking up the cross
The crusades in the English literary imagination By David Abulafia
Not just a man’s war
The role of women in crusading history
Under the patriarchy
Sixty years of turmoil in Egypt
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