Inside the Literary Review – November 2022:
London: The Great Transformation 1860–1920
The Artist’s Studio: A Cultural History
Was Lockdown Lawful? – Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why It Matters
Damned Statistics – Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers
Inside Foreign Affairs November/December 2022 issue:
What China’s Ideologue in Chief Really Believes
The Kremlin Won’t Go Down Without a Fight
A Diplomat Defects From the Kremlin
Inside the The New Yorker Magazine, November 7, 2022:
In the state’s midterms—which could determine the balance of the Senate and the integrity of the Presidential race in 2024—Democrats are fighting for the vote. Republicans are fighting to undermine it.
As the head of General Electric, he fired people in vast numbers and turned the manufacturing behemoth into a financial house of cards. Why was he so revered?
The concept helps entertainment companies like Marvel Studios recycle old characters—but it can also unlock new kinds of storytelling.
“Demon Copperhead” reimagines Dickens’s story in a modern-day rural America contending with poverty and opioid addiction.
“The Lemon” is the satirical debut by a team of three authors writing under the pseudonym S.E. Boyd.
The poet’s house museum in Amherst, Mass., gets a vibrant, historically correct makeover, underlining that she was not just a reclusive woman in white.
From tax legislation to the debt-ceiling debate, a lot is riding on the next Congress. What to expect from divided government.
There’s plenty of bad news. But thanks to real progress, we’re headed toward a less apocalyptic future.
This is what success looks like in the creator economy: Sometimes you have to beg millions of fans for mercy.
The skull shapes of mammals diversified more rapidly early in their history
Merck unearths a frozen batch of an experimental vaccine it made years ago
Experiments involving eyelid suturing and maternal separation divide scientists
Models suggest rising immunity in a small group of people, not vaccination, is key
Reasons to be cheerful are scant
Their uprising could be the beginning of the end of Iran’s theocracy
The country’s clean-energy push shows a way to escape the coal addiction
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