LITERARY REVIEW : The latest issue features ‘What the New World did for Us’
An Epic for the Ages
The Odyssey By Christopher Nolan (dir)
LITERARY REVIEW MAGAZINE – AUGUST 2026 PREVIEW
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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – AUGUST 20, 2026
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…
Artful Weaving
The most authentic thing about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is its densely braided narrative, but its tormented hero sounds like the heroes of Christopher Nolan movies.
Whose Party?
As Democratic Socialists rack up primary victories, the moderate wing of the Democratic Party looks increasingly out of touch.
Trump’s Constitutional Dictatorship
Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s inside account of the Trump administration portrays a president with a vast appetite for power but who repeatedly backs down when the costs of his actions become too high.
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Out of the Rubble
In novels written immediately after World War II, Wolfgang Koeppen mined the conscience of Germany.
Pigeons on the Grass by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
The Hothouse by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann, with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra
Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann, with an introduction by Joshua Cohen
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JULY 24, 2026 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Emily Brontë’s mysterious power’….
Uncloistered
Oxbridge in the postwar world By Richard Vinen
Freeing life from facts
The awesome, mysterious work of Emily Brontë By Claire Harman
All very hush-hush
Silence in literature By Daniel Karlin
Feel good philosophy
Should human life have a purpose? By Crispin Sartwell
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – JULY 23, 2026
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…
An Uncertain Triumphalism
America’s centennial in 1876 was celebrated with a grand exhibition that projected an image of national unity and inventiveness in the anxious aftermath of civil war and recession.
Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future by Fergus M. Bordewich
Hungary: The Flood
Peter Magyar’s landslide electoral victory in April made clear that after sixteen years, Hungarians were tired of Viktor Orbán.
Space Oddity
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism examines how Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, by selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit.
Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff
Song of Our Cells
Though a mystery to Darwin in his lifetime, the constant mutation of our genes is what allows for life’s magnificent diversity.
Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health by Roxanne Khamsi
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JULY 10, 2026 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features Allen Ginsberg at 100; Shere Hite and the female pleasure principle; Shakespeare’s politics…
Best of enemies
The Iranian regime’s long confrontation with America By Azadeh Moaveni
Allen Ginsberg at 100
Poet, counterculture critic and self-promoter By Douglas Field
Getting real
Do objects exist independently of human experience? By Emily Herring
Forgotten feminist
How Shere Hite put women’s pleasure first By Angela Saini
LITERARY REVIEW MAGAZINE – JULY 2026 PREVIEW
LITERARY REVIEW : The latest issue features ‘Lincoln’s path to power’…
Delicacy & Steel – Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
Not So Soft Power – Freedom Round the Globe: How the World Made the American Revolution
Highway Gothic – This Land Is Your Land: On a Road Trip to Make Sense of America
The Hedgehog Review – SUMMER 2026 Preview
THE HEDGEHOG REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘
The Fading Promise of Higher Education
A loss of public faith in higher education and and what it represents for the larger community. This issue also features a Symposium on Aspects of 1776 in commemoration of America at 250.
The University’s Never-Ending Crisis
Higher education has dealt with epistemic revolution before.
Artificial Negligence
Why are college administrators so eager to adopt AI?
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 26, 2026 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features…
Sexist, sexy or deadly serious?
Critical views of D. H. Lawrence’s notorious novel By Nicholas Murray
Summer books 2026
Thirty-four TLS writers share their holiday reading
Separate and equal
The Declaration of Independence at 250
Infinite test
A showily ingenious novel about the exploitation of attention
LITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA – JULY/AUGUST 2026 PREVIEW
Literary Review of Canada The latest issue features…
For All to Hear
A collective wake-up call by Kyle Wyatt
Pitch Perfect?
On the promise and perils of global soccer by James Brooke-Smith
From the 500s with Love
Remember peanuts and Cracker Jack? by Stacey May Fowles
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – JUNE 25, 2026 PREVIEW
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…
Boomers Daily 