Times Literary Supplement (May 8 2024): The latest issue features ‘Reverie and revolution’ – Ian Penman on Surrealism; Crime fiction gets political; Scorsese’s English masters, women pianists and more….
Country Life Magazine (May 7, 2024): The latest issue features…
Mrs Beeton’s recipes are still followed more than a century later. Kate Green raises a spoon to the first domestic goddess
Good coffee, companionship and delectable cakes are on offer in the cafés of the Cots-wolds. Ben Lerwill takes a sip
On the 75th birthday of Badminton Horse Trials, Kate Green salutes seven heroes of eventing’s premier weekend
The names of our butterflies and moths owe their artistic overtones to a golden group, discovers Peter Marren
From Sissinghurst to Charleston, gardens offered the women of the Bloomsbury group refuge, solace and inspiration. Deborah Nicholls-Lee enjoys a stroll
The event director of Badminton Horse Trials chooses a hunting scene with personal resonance
Farmers should be allowed to prioritise producing food, believes Minette Batters
The Anglo-American artistic circle of Russell House in Broadway, Worcestershire, lives on through its current incumbents, John Martin Robinson is pleased to say
Spring has donned its lacy garb as cow parsley flowers. Vicky Liddell walks the umbellifer lanes
The fearsome scorpion fly is straight out of science-fiction central casting, says Ian Morton
Jo Caird marvels at a rare survival in a Cotswold church
Hetty Lintell packs her case and runs away to the airport
Curl up and get cosy with the comfiest bedroom accessories, chosen by Amelia Thorpe
Recently renovated, the gardens of Iford Manor in Wiltshire are as idyllic today as they were when Harold Peto created the Italianate design, marvels Tiffany Daneff
John Wright adds tonic and raises a glass to the juniper
Quivering, crystal-clear savoury jelly is all grown up. Tom Parker Bowles braves the wobble
Michael Sandle is still fighting the good fight through his art as he turns 88, reveals John McEwen
A trick of Cumbrian geology led to worldwide fame for Keswick, scribbles Harry Pearson
Also: “Uncle Vanya” and “Staff Meal” reviewed, superstar pianists at Carnegie Hall, and more.
A new wave of shops has made its mark across the country—and shaken New York’s bagel scene out of complacency.
Mashed-potato nightmares! Kafka in the Oval Office! And other things going through the mind of the nap-happy ex-president in court.
By Barry Blitt
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (May 4, 2024): The latest issue features…
In an interview, the basketball star reveals her humiliation — and friendships — in Russian prison, and her path to recovery.
By J Wortham
On the March afternoon when I met Brittney Griner in Phoenix, the wildflowers were in peak efflorescence, California poppies and violet cones of lupine exploding everywhere. Griner was in bloom too. She was practicing with some local ballers brought in by her W.N.B.A. team, the Mercury, to prepare its players for the start of the season in May. On the court, Griner was loose, confident, trading jokes with the other players between runs.
American investors are gobbling up the storied teams of the English Premier League — and changing the stadium experience in ways that soccer fans resent.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – MAY 6, 2024 ISSUE:
The world’s longest heated oil pipeline faces challenges from forest fires to deadly snakes. But funding is the biggest worry.
Our latest Big Money poll of professional investors finds more than half bullish on stocks.Long read
Adobe shares have missed the AI rally—for now. Its own AI-powered design tools should eventually pay off.3 min read
The Week In Art Podcast (May 3, 2024): After years of decreasing public funding, the lingering effects of the Covid pandemic and enduring questions around the ethics of corporate sponsorship, UK museums are facing unprecedented financial pressures.
Some commentators are suggesting that the time has come to abandon the policy of free admission to museums that is viewed by many as key to the cultural fabric of the UK. Among those arguing for charging is the critic and broadcaster Ben Lewis, who joins Ben Luke to discuss the issue.
This week, the British Museum opened the exhibition Michelangelo: the Last Decades. It focuses on the period after 1534, when Michelangelo left his native Florence for Rome, never to return, and embarked on many of his most ambitious projects. We take a tour of the show with its curator, Sarah Vowles.
And this episode’s Work of the Week is Maria Blanchard’s Girl at Her First Communion (1914). The painting features in a new exhibition at the Museo Picasso in Málaga. Its curator, José Lebrero Stals, tells us more about this underappreciated Spanish artist, who was at the heart of the Parisian avant garde in the 1910s and 20s.
Michelangelo: the Last Decades, British Museum, until 28 July.
More co-ordination and better access to data are needed to fight lies
America’s reckless borrowing is a danger to its economy—and the world’s
Should American universities call the cops on protesting students?
Novels starring hot fairies are selling millions of copies
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Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo would be first researcher to lead the country, but critics worry she’ll be as hostile to science as her predecessor
Scientists test bighorn sheep, bears, moose, rats, and dozens of other species to track how SARS-CoV-2 moves between humans and wildlife
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