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…
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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
Los Angeles Review Of Books – Spring 2025
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 11, 2025): The Spring 2025 issue features…
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
London Review Of Books – March 20, 2025 Preview
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 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
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
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