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Category Archives: Stories
Previews: Archaeology Magazine – Nov/Dec 2022
Priestess, Poet, Politician
4,000 years ago, the world’s first author composed verses that helped forge the Akkadian Empire
Mexico’s Butterfly Warriors
The annual monarch migration may have been a sacred event for the people of Mesoamerica
A Tale of Two Abbeys
How entrepreneurial monks shaped the landscape of medieval England
Bronze Age Urban Experiment
Archaeologists debate who ruled the cities of the ancient Indus Valley
Magical Mystery Door
An investigation of an Egyptian sacred portal reveals a history of renovation and deception
Reviews: The Top Fiction Books To Read (Fall 2022)
Act of Oblivion
By Robert Harris | Harper
The Indemnity and Oblivion Act of 1660 singled out a small number of regicides for grisly punishment. Robert Harris’s novel imagines the manhunt through colonial New England for two participants in the decision to execute Charles I roughly a decade before.
The Backstreets: A Novel From Xinjiang
By Perhat Tursun | Columbia
“I don’t know anyone in this strange city, so it’s impossible for me to be friends or enemies with anyone.” The Kafkaesque story of a nameless Uyghur man in a Chinese metropolis renders the real-world crisis of an entire culture into a haunting parable of power and powerlessness, and the use of loneliness as a tool of oppression.
The Betrothed
By Alessandro Manzoni | Modern Library
The sweeping tale, now little remembered in America, of a pair of 17th-century Italian lovers, separated by the designs of a cruel aristocrat. Michael E. Moore offers the first English translation in more than 50 years of Alessandro Manzoni’s masterpiece, a work of foundational Italian literature on par with the Divine Comedy and the Decameron.
Less Is Lost
By Andrew Sean Greer | Little, Brown
The “innocent abroad” at the heart of Andrew Sean Greer’s “Less” (2017) endured adventures both comic and heartwarming. The novel garnered the 2018 Pulitzer Prize. Now its good-natured writer-hero returns for another road trip in a rollicking sequel.
Lessons
By Ian McEwan | Knopf
In novels like “Sweet Tooth” and “Atonement,” Ian McEwan has taught readers to be on their guard, ready for a twist or revelation that might put all that’s come before in doubt. In “Lessons,” Mr. McEwan has created something to confound such expectations, in the portrait of a lost, likable protagonist whose “shapeless existence” is at the center of an unpredictable, very human journey through his own traumas, failures and hopes.
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The Marriage Portrait
By Maggie O’Farrell | Knopf
At the tender age of 15, Lucrezia, the daughter of the Florentine ruler Cosimo de’ Medici, is wed in a marriage of diplomatic alliance to another powerful nobleman. She would survive less than a year—a timeframe brought into thrilling focus in an intense and vivid portrait from the author of “Hamnet.”
My Phantoms
By Gwendoline Riley | NYRB Classics
The gaps in understanding between two people can be an occasion for frustration—or a confrontation with the central enigma of consciousness. In the spare but powerful fiction of the English novelist Gwendoline Riley, the tangled streets of a city or the banalities of a conversation can stand in for the uncertain terrain of the mysterious and elusive self.
Natural History: Stories
By Andrea Barrett | Norton
In a unique set of linked stories, many of which take place in a small lakeside town in New York, the writer Andrea Barrett offers the interconnected histories of a set of characters deeply involved both with one another and the fragile, beautiful world around them. Here, the ecology of the heart and the wonders of nature flourish side by side.
Nights of Plague
By Orhan Pamuk | Knopf
The new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of “Snow” and “My Name Is Red” stages a turn-of-the-20th-century tale of intrigue on a Mediterranean island ruled by the Ottoman Empire. An outbreak of the Black Plague and the quarantines that follow set the stage for political strife: The assassination of a health official raises the stakes in a tale that combines mystery with a richly detailed portrait of a society in turmoil.
Shrines of Gaiety
By Kate Atkinson | Doubleday
In the nightclubs of 1920s London, frivolity and fun are the order of the day—and Nellie Coker reigns as monarch of the quasi-legal revels. In this novel from the celebrated author of “Life After Life,” the disappearance of a young girl brings both the police and a determined amateur sleuth into the demimonde that Nellie and her family rule.
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World Economic Forum: Top Stories (Oct 7, 2022)
Cover: The New York Times Magazine – Oct 9, 2022
Risking Everything to Offer Abortions Across State Lines
Doctors and midwives in blue states are working to get abortion pills into red states — setting the stage for a historic legal clash.
What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay
No greater challenge faces humanity than reducing emissions without backsliding into preindustrial poverty. One tiny country is leading the way.
The Climate Novelist Who Transcends Despair
Lydia Millet believes the natural world can help us become more human.
Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’
This week: Georgina Adam joins Ben Luke to discuss the intriguing story of the bankrupt entrepreneur and art collector, the museum scholar and a host of Old Master paintings given new attributions.
We talk to Suzanne Pagé, the curator of Monet-Mitchell, an exhibition bringing together the Impressionist Claude Monet and the post-war American abstract painter Joan Mitchell, at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
And this episode’s Work of the Week is a 1583 painting of Elizabeth I of England, known as the Sieve Portrait, which is one of the highlights of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York’s exhibition The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. The show’s curators, Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker, tell us about this richly layered picture.
Monet-Mitchell, Joan Mitchell retrospective, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, until 27 February 2023. Joan Mitchell: Paintings, 1979-85, David Zwirner, New York, 3 November-17 December.The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10 October-8 January 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
November 2022: National Geographic Traveller (UK)
The November 2022 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK).
The November issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK) is out now. The cover story this month looks at Colombia, South America’s rising star, with a focus on wild river safaris in the Amazon jungle, the vibrant cities of Bogotá, Cartagena and Medellín, the innovative Indigenous communities, the stunning archipelago of the Rosario Islands and the best of the Coffee Triangle.
Stories: European Energy Crisis, Poland-U.S. Nuclear Weapons, Iran Protests
The energy crisis in Europe continues. Plus: Poland suggests hosting US nuclear weapons, the international community responds to protests in Iran and do we still consider books good value for money?
Preview: The Economist Magazine – Oct 8, 2022
A new macroeconomic era is emerging. What will it look like?
A great rebalancing between governments and central banks is under way.
For months there has been turmoil in financial markets and growing evidence of stress in the world economy. You might think that these are just the normal signs of a bear market and a coming recession. But, as our special report this week lays out, they also mark the painful emergence of a new regime in the world economy—a shift that may be as consequential as the rise of Keynesianism after the second world war, and the pivot to free markets and globalisation in the 1990s.
News: Russia Annexation, New European Political Community, New Zealand
Russia pushes ahead with annexation despite retreats in southern Ukraine. Plus: the launch of the European Political Community, Auckland Climate Festival and a round-up of Paris Fashion Week.
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