Gayle Kabaker’s “Summer Walk”
The artist on loosening up and the rewards of keeping a sketchbook.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by Gayle Kabaker (August 8, 2022)
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – August 15, 2022
Category Archives: Literature
Previews: Times Literary Supplement – Aug 5, 2022
This week’s @TheTLS , featuring Marjorie Perloff on Robert Lowell’s Memoirs; A. N. Wilson on Lord Northcliffe; @funesdamemorius on Aleister Crowley; @MarenMeinhardt on Manon Gropius; @JuliaBell on Lillian Fishman; @chrismullinexmp on political lives – and more.
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – August 8, 2022
R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Double-Parked”
The artist on learning to love New York City beaches and balancing passion projects with his career as an illustrator.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by R. Kikuo Johnson
Cover: New York Review Of Books – August 18, 2022
The New York Review of Books – August 18, 2022
Mark Danner: We’re in an Emergency—Act Like It!
At a time when the threat of authoritarianism is rising, Democrats have a duty to make crystal clear to voters what is at stake in the November elections.
Alan Hollinghurst: In the Shadow of Young Men in Flower
In Andrew Holleran’s novels, the inescapable narrowness of his world is transcended and given poetic resonance by his close and steady attention to pain and loneliness.
The Kingdom of Sand by by Andrew Holleran
Jennifer Wilson: The First Russian
An unfinished novel about his African great-grandfather provides the best sense of how Pushkin considered his own Blackness.
Peter the Great’s African: Experiments in Prose
by Alexander Pushkin, translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and Boris Dralyuk, edited by Robert Chandler
Preview: London Review Of Books – August 4, 2022
Our new issue is now online, featuring Fredric Jameson on Ben Pastor, @LalehKhalili on oil, money and democracy, John Lanchester on Wirecard, Andrew O’Hagan on Dolly Parton, @davies_will on the seductions of declinism and a cover by Alexander Gorlizki: http://lrb.co.uk
TLS Preview: Times Literary Supplement – July 29, 2022
The TLS (Times Literary Supplement) for July 29, 2022 – @TheTLS, featuring @billmckibben on the future of farming; Bart van Es on Shakespeare’s life and sources; @profrhodrilewis on the sixteenth-century mind; @soniafaleiro on Geetanjali Shree; @mary_leng on straw men – and more.
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – August 1, 2022
Will Wisconsin’s Republicans Make Voting Meaningless, or Just Difficult?
Activists are combining voter suppression with election conspiracies to capture the state in 2022 and beyond.By Dan Kaufman
Annals of a Warming PlanetLiving Through India’s Next-Level Heat WaveIn hospitals, in schools, and on the streets, high temperatures have transformed routines and made daylight dangerous..By Dhruv Khullar
Covers: TLS / Times Literary Supplement – July 22, 2022
The Times Literary Supplement (TheTLS) featuring @ambermedland on Jean Rhys; @joemoransblog on Britain’s housing inequality; @maryanneclark60 on the first true-crime play; @colincraiggrant on In the Black Fantastic; @bjkingape on the science of dogs – and more.
Cover Preview: Harper’s Magazine – August 2022
Harper’s Magazine, August 2022 – The Next Front in the Fight to Choose, Marilynne Robinson on the Roots of American Liberalism, Is Christopher Hitchens Still Worth Reading?
Salman Rushdie on the War of the Narratives and more in the August issue https://harpers.org/archive/2022/08/…
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – July 25, 2022
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