The prince, his protectors and the questions that must be answered By Gordon Brown
Less than a year ago, campaigners for the bill were optimistic it would pass – what went wrong? By Hannah Barnes
How Britain failed a generation of Neets By Anoosh Chakelian
The scale of Britain’s involvement is still not fully understood By Tom McTague
“Saguaro in the Sea” by Sophia Acuña: on surfing and indigeneity in Southern California, told through collage.
“Care Directive” by Sarah Matsui: a daughter’s attempt to keep her aging father in Hawaii from all sorts of calamity, but having to monitor him from the mainland.
“Triptych: A Biographer’s Sketchbook” by Carolyn Burke: “The Baroness was lively, curious, and still blond at eighty-five. She received me in a flurry of franglais, the mingling of two languages in which we would converse, and put us at ease with pink champagne, her favorite.”
“Decoys” by Will Boast: goofing around working at the town supermarket, burning through the days till it all comes to head.
“Lilac Mud” by Anita Felicelli: A Bay Area artist in Amsterdam is approached one night by a man claiming to be a former student, leading to a crisis of identity and purpose.
“Grote geplumaceerde” by Emily Nemens: “Afterward, staring hard at her phone, which was her radio, which was the bearer of bad news, she wondered what mattered at all.”
Kevin Cantwell, Geraldine Jorge, Jonathon Keats, Caroline Kessler, and Noelani Piters.
Lydia Kiesling talks to acclaimed author Karen Russell about Russell’s latest novel, The Antidote, and about Russell’s “fascination with foundational myths, the things we choose to know, and the things we choose to ignore or forget.”
Ian Everard
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘A View of Her Own’….
Tracey Emin’s self-fashioning By Sophie Oliver
Women landscape painters reconsidered By Jenny Uglow
Mankind has escaped nuclear war, for now By P. D. Smith
Mexico’s challenge to received historical ideas By Benjamin T. Smith
The bittersweet contentment of old age By Rory Waterman
From the 16th century onwards, as European powers feverishly colonised the world, the possibility of a Northern Sea Route connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Scandinavia to the Bering Strait, tantalised the Dutch and the British as an alternative to the southern routes to Asia and the Americas, which were dominated by Portugal and Spain. But the route only became a reality in the Soviet era, after investments in scientific, economic, industrial and military infrastructure in Siberia.
This is what distinguishes hyperpolitics from the mass democracy of the mid-20th century. Symbolic political gestures are now commonplace, but paid membership of organisations and parties has plummeted. The left has failed to find a replacement for trade unions as a basis for collective action in civil society. Political movements are easy to join, and just as easy to leave.
De Kooning’s Suburb in Havana is a counter-revolutionary painting. Well, of course. It is counter-revolutionary because it is counter everything, versus everything, lost in suburbia. It wants to show us how hard it had to work to get precisely nowhere. Why nowhere was where it wished to get to is a question it leaves to the viewer.
Can there be poetic justice in politics? Perhaps once in a lifetime. In 1989, a young Viktor Orbán bravely told the crowds in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square that it was time for the Russians to go home, just as protesters had demanded in 1956; almost four decades later, he was heckled on the campaign trail with the same words.
APOLLO MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Inside the crisis at the Louvre | how Marcel Duchamp invented modern art | an interview with Abbas Akhavan | Whistler shows his metal
FEATURES | Valeria Costa-Kostritsky explores the crisis at the Louvre; Hettie Judah talks to Abbas Akhavan before the artist represents Canada at the Venice Biennale; Ana María Bresciani of the Munchmuseet on Edvard Munch and the chocolate factory; Nicole Rudick on how Marcel Duchamp has been misunderstood; and Tara Contractor takes a closer look at Whistler’s love of metallic surfaces
REVIEWS | Sheila Barker on Raphael’s interest in women – and their interest in him; Zachary Ginsberg takes the temperature of contemporary American art at the Whitney Biennial; Digby Warde-Aldam admires Hurvin Anderson’s tricky balancing acts; Robert Hanks on the role of man’s best friend in art history; and William Aslet on the craftsmen behind some of Britain and Ireland’s best buildings
MARKET | Jane Morris on the status of online auctions; Emma Crichton-Miller on the mid-century French designers who married form, function and fun; in New York fair previews: Fatema Ahmed picks highlights from TEFAF; and Arjun Sajip looks ahead to Frieze
PLUS | Charles Darwent salutes the subtleties of Jasper Johns; Samuel Reilly on the threat to one of Glasgow’s most unusual attractions; Will Wiles applauds the witty architectural cartoons of Alan Dunn; Ivan Day on extravagant banquets in the Georgian era; Christina Makris visits the vineyard of Château La Coste; Helena Attlee is fired up by a depiction of Mount Etna; and Edward Behrens on a sale that shines new light on Gerhard Richter
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Tomer Hanuka’s “Spring Salutations” – Central Park flow.
The exact reasons are often left vague and the successors to be determined, but people are leaving the Administration—including three Cabinet secretaries. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
The agency, which was founded to protect the environment and human health, has cancelled safety regulations, supported coal, and stopped caring about climate change. By Elizabeth Kolbert
From tariffs to the war with Iran, the President is blowing up the global economy.
With Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘I Don’t Know If We Can Come Back From This’ – The view from inside Trump’s D.H.S….
From the Kremlin to Silicon Valley, some of the most powerful people in the world now want something more: eternal life.
The actor and comedian is keenly aware of humanity’s limitations, but he’s not giving up. By David Marchese
Dozens of agents and officials share their stories about working in the Department of Homeland Security during the harsh crackdown on illegal immigration.
Warsh, who is on track to succeed current Chair Jerome Powell, wants to lower interest rates and shrink the Fed’s balance sheet. Inflation may get in the way.
An unusually high personal consumption expenditures index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, is quashing hopes for interest-rate cuts.
In our latest Big Money poll, professional investors see attractive gains in small-caps, international stocks, and energy. Weighing the impacts of the Iran war.
The high inflation that characterized the ‘70s and ’80s ravaged retirement portfolios.
Berkshire Hathaway stock is in the midst of one of its worst periods of underperformance relative to the S&P 500 since Buffett took control in 1965.
Money has flowed out of the leading credit funds, and investors will be looking for indications the flood is slowing
Athene, Mass Mutual, and other insurers hold nearly $16 billion in bonds from private-credit funds facing heavy redemption requests.
REASON MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘A Pointless War’…
President Donald Trump and his predecessors spent decades putting the U.S. on a path toward war against Iran. Matthew Petti
“Now they are hitting everything. Nowhere is safe. But don’t worry, we are okay,” one Iranian woman texted her American relative. Matthew Petti
From trade to migration to personal freedom, the conservatives of the global New Right hold a philosophy incompatible with individualism. Stephen Davies
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features America’s best free bread, the cartel Olympics, a billionaire’s private retreat, and why reactionaries are taking over the world. Plus the U.S. gerontocracy, masterpieces of the New Deal, John Mark Comer, Black comedy, the eighth deadly sin, and more.
Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf. Caity Weaver
A Mexican athlete said he was kidnapped and forced to compete for his life in a tournament of gangs. But was he actually playing a different game? McKay Coppins
The heartbreak of hoping for a democratic Iran Laura Secor
Why reactionaries are taking over the world David Brooks
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