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Art, Art Galleries, Arts & Literature, Magazines, Museums, Reviews

Apollo Magazine – April 2025 – International Art

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APOLLO MAGAZINE (March 31, 2025): The April 2025 issue features ‘The sonic visions of Oliver Beer’; The Frick returns to Fifth Avenue and How the Acropolis became modern….

The Frick returns to Fifth Avenue

An interview with Oliver Beer

How the Acropolis became modern

In praise of ‘degenerate’ art

Also: The duchess who scandalised Spain, why the market for women’s art is slowing, Dutch paintings at Apsley House, how Bugatti built a style icon, the sensational designs of Alphonse Mucha, and a preview of Art Dubai; reviews of Gertrude Abercrombie in Pittsburgh, Medardo Rosso in Vienna, and a history of image-eating. Plus: Will Wiles on a French avant-garde portrait with a family connection

Arts & Literature, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

The New Yorker Magazine – April 7, 2025 Preview

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An illustration of Pete Hegseth J. D. Vance Tulsi Gabbard and others holding cellphones while riding on a missile.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 31, 2025): Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices” – The Trump Administration’s not-so-classified group chat.

The Greater Scandal of Signalgate

The spectacle of incompetence and the attempts to smear a reporter are a misery; even worse is the encroaching threat of autocracy that cannot be concealed or encrypted. By David Remnick

The Senate’s Age of Irrelevance

Elon Musk’s DOGE and Trump’s executive orders are pushing Congress’s upper chamber from ineffectiveness to obsolescence. Will John Thune, the new Majority Leader, let them? By David D. Kirkpatrick

Mixed Signals

Who says there are no historical precedents for accidentally including a journalist on top-secret war plans? By Anthony Lane

Arts & Literature, Books, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews, Uncategorized

London Review Of Books – April 3, 2025 Preview

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LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 26, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Regime Change in the West’; Marvelous Mavis Gallant; Executive Order 14168; Long Ling visits the new Bejing…

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

Normandy: The Sailors’ Story by Nick Hewitt

D-Day, the Oral History: The Turning Point of World War Two by the People Who Were There by Garrett M. Graff

Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1 by Karl Marx, edited by Paul North and Paul Reitter, translated by Paul Reitter

History, Magazines, Reviews

History Today Magazine – April 2025 Preview

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HISTORY TODAY MAGAZINE (March 25, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Lost World of Ancient Assyria’ – The Library of Ashurbanipal, the African king at Edward VII’s coronation, the origins of India’s Brahmins, British witnesses to Buchenwald, spinning James I’s succession, and more.

The Library of Ashurbanipal

When it was discovered in the 19th century, the Library of Ashurbanipal revealed an ancient Assyrian empire previously known only through myth.

Bloody Mary and the Missing Heir

A male heir might have saved Queen Mary’s reign, and changed the shape of global Catholicism for good.

Vietdamned’ by Clive Webb review

Can Vietdamned: How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial by Clive Webb rescue Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre’s activism from irrelevance?

Diet & Nutrition, Health, Newsletters, Nutrition, Reviews

Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter – April 2025

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TUFTS HEALTH & NUTRITION LETTER (March 24, 2025): The April 2025 issue feature…

Don’t be Fooled by Weight Loss Fads

NewsBites: Mindfulness for anxiety; stress and heart health

Important Fiber Facts

Special Report: Diet and Cancer

Green Juice

Featured Recipe: Instant Pot Black-Eyed Peas and Greens

Ask Tufts Experts: Getting enough protein on a vegan diet

Myth: Strength training makes you bulky.

Arts & Literature, Books, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

The New York Review Of Books – April 10, 2025

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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 20, 2025): The latest issue features Michael Gorra on the majesty of Caspar David Friedrich, Cathleen Schine on Hanif Kureishi, Wendy Doniger on letting slip the horses of war, Adam Thirlwell on Lars von Trier, Christian Caryl on denazification, Miri Rubin on Christian supremacy, Jonathan Mingle on the phosphorous shortfall, Brenda Wineapple on the history of American social movements, Geoffrey O’Brien on Fifties Hollywood, Christopher R. Browning on Trump’s antisemitism, poems by Witold Wirpsza and Laura Kolbe, and much more.

Toffler in China

The work of the eclectic American futurist exerted a profound and unanticipated influence on China’s digital transformation since the 1980s.

Lost in the Landscape

The Met’s Caspar David Friedrich exhibition offers an introduction to an artist whose work—luminous, disturbing, serene—reveals an all-encompassing physical realm.

Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature – an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, February 8–May 11, 2025

Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New Age – an exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, December 15, 2023–April 1, 2024

The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time by Florian Illies, translated from the German by Tony Crawford

The Rise and Fall of Warhorses

You can tell the history of a large part of the world by who had what horses when.

Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires by David Chaffetz

Culture, Essays, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

Culture: Harper’s Magazine – April 2025

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HARPER’S MAGAZINE (March 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Social-Skills Crisis’ – Have we forgotten how to work together?; Undercover with New York’s Guardian Angels and The End of Psychoanalysis As We Know It?…

Going Soft – Future-proofing the American worker

by Lily Scherlis

The Last Detail – On patrol with the Guardian Angels

by Kent Russell

The Social Turn – Psychoanalysis at an inflection point

by Maggie Doherty

Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

The New Republic Magazine – April 2025

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THE NEW REPUBLIC MAGAZINE (March 17, 2025): The April 2025 issue features ‘Democrats must become the Workers Party Again’

Democrats, This Is the Worst Possible Time for a Civil War

The party’s base is right to be angry at Chuck Schumer, but the country’s fate hinges on the fight against Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Michael Tomasky

Is the American Electric Car Already Dead?

Trump is cutting power to the EV industry. It’s unclear if it can recover.

Trump Is Fighting His Court Losses With a Surprising Legal Tactic

Legal skirmishes between the administration and lower court judges have highlighted the way the federal court system itself has become a thorn in the president’s side.