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The New York Review Of Books – March 13, 2025
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features:
From Comedy to Brutality
With his designs on Greenland and Gaza, Trump has signaled that his first term’s outlandish gestures are the second term’s savage demands.
Caravaggio Lost and Found
As two paintings by Caravaggio return to public view, it is possible to hope that his best-known lost work will reappear after almost half a century.
Caravaggio: The Ecce Homo Unveiled – an exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, May 28, 2024–February 23, 2025
Caravaggio: The Portrait Unveiled – an exhibition at the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, November 23, 2024–February 23, 2025
Caravaggio, la Natività di Palermo: Nascita e scomparsa di un capolavoro [Caravaggio, the Palermo Nativity: Birth and Disappearance of a Masterpiece] by Michele Cuppone
Eden on Fire
The terrible fires in January were another reminder that urban planning in Los Angeles has long failed to protect the city from the natural disasters that repeatedly threaten the region.
The New Yorker Magazine – March 3, 2025 Preview
The Chaos of Trump’s Guantánamo Plan
The confusion surrounding the detention of migrants at the base and their sudden deportation shouldn’t be mistaken for a broader lack of planning. By Jonathan Blitzer
Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships
A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep. By Julian Lucas
The Population Implosion
Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried? By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
The New Criterion – March 2025 Preview
THE NEW CRITERION MAGAZINE (February 14, 2025): The latest issue features…
The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad “they” by Joshua T. Katz
The Fricks at home by Ian Wardropper
The depletion of culture by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Three Americans in Paris by Michael J. Lewis
London Review Of Books – February 20, 2025 Preview
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (February 12, 2025): The latest issue features Clair Wills on Marion Milner; Deaths in Custody; Adam Shatz on Messiaen’s Ecstasies; Bee Wilson looks in the fridge and Christopher Clark defends Merkel…
Marion Milner’s Method – Clair Wills
Marion Milner believed in the importance of creative fulfilment (the ‘genius’ inside every one of us) and offered a kind of manual for finding it. From her earliest self-experiments through decades of psychoanalytic practice she took seriously the need to feel ‘real in living’, and tried to theorise the therapeutic potential of aesthetic experience, however minimal.
Deaths in Custody – Dani Garavelli
William had spent most of his life in the care of the state. His story was one of intergenerational trauma, common to many families in the West of Scotland, and of the lies Scotland tells itself about its treatment of its most vulnerable young people.
Merkel’s Two Lives – Christopher Clark
Angela Merkel’s low-key, unflappable persona makes it easy to overlook how extraordinary her story is. A life composed of such unlike elements has never been possible before and will never be so again, at least in Europe.
Messiaen’s Ecstasies – Adam Shatz
While few would question Messiaen’s importance in 20th-century music, his religious modernism has always been met with accusations of idolatry, inauthenticity and bad taste.
Times LIterary Supplement – February 14, 2025 Preview
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (February 13, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Real Ruins?’ = Mary Beard on what gets left behind; AI’s literary triumph; A Nobel laureate’s prose falls short; The price of woke and Kissinger’s boys…
The Peronist Pope
The Argentine pontiff who accepts his own fallibility By A. N. Wilson
Life writing
By Mary Beard
The New Yorker Magazine – February 17, 2025
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (February 10, 2025): The latest issue features Rea Irvin’s “Eustace Tilley” at One Hundred – The magazine celebrates its centenary.
The Editorial Battles That Made The New Yorker
The magazine has three golden rules: never write about writers, editors, or the magazine. On the occasion of our hundredth anniversary, we’re breaking them all. By Jill Lepore
Onward and Upward
Harold Ross founded The New Yorker as a comic weekly. A hundred years later, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the much richer publication it became. By David Remnick
The “Intactivists” Campaigning Against the Cut
New York’s biggest foreskin fans take their anti-circumcision message to the streets. By Diego Lasarte
The New York Times Book Review – February 9, 2025
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (February 8, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Stages Of Life’…
5 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
25 Years Ago, Joan Didion Kept a Diary. It’s About to Become Public.
The notes, taken after meetings with her psychiatrist, will be published in April as a book, “Notes to John.” They provide a raw account of her life, her work and her complex relationship with her daughter.
How Big Tech Mined Our Attention and Broke Our Politics
“Superbloom,” by Nicholas Carr, and “The Sirens’ Call,” by the MSNBC host Chris Hayes, argue that we are ill equipped to handle the infinite scroll of the information age.
The New York Review Of Books – February 27, 2025
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (February 7, 2025): The latest issue features The Prophet Business…
The Prophet Business
A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present by Glenn Adamson
There have always been oracles, prophets, soothsayers, utopians, seers, or futurologists to make predictions about what will pass, and no matter how often they are wrong or discredited, humanity’s need remains.
A Daring Departure
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee
Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment – an exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, March 26–July 14, 2024, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., September 8, 2024–January 19, 2025
One hundred and fifty years after Impressionist paintings were first exhibited, it takes a certain effort to recover their original radicalism.
Rebooting the Pentagon
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff
Bringing Silicon Valley’s drive for innovation to defense contracting has been a slow process, but the war in Ukraine has led tech firms to plunge into the war business.
The London Magazine – February/March 2025
THE LONDON MAGAZINE (February 3, 2025): The latest issue features…
Cusk, Experimentalism and the Limits of Autofiction
Zuhri James
‘I don’t think character exists anymore’, Rachel Cusk declared in a 2018 interview. This was not the first time Cusk appeared to be announcing the atrophy of the traditional novel. In a 2014 interview with The Guardian, Cusk stated she was ‘certain autobiography’ was ‘increasingly the only form in all the arts’. Inversely, fiction and its conventional preoccupation with ‘making up John and Jane’, Cusk argued, was only becoming more ‘ridiculous’, ‘fake and embarrassing’. It is precisely this disregard for literary orthodoxy that runs through Cusk’s widely acclaimed trilogy of autofictional novels – Outline (2014), Transit (2016) and Kudos (2018).
Heat Signature
.Idra Novey
My twin brother calls from the hospital. He’s finished his blood draw and wants to know the word in Portuguese for watermelon. I recite the word for him – melancia – though my brother’s mind isn’t likely to keep hold of it. Zach can no longer keep a hold of his house keys or his phone, which he left yesterday in the bathroom sink. Before we hang up, I ask him to please wait for me in the lounge area for outpatient services, not to wander outside the hospital.
Jacqueline Feldman: ‘It’s salutary to spend time around people who have arranged their lives in radical ways.’
.Julia Steiner
Jacqueline Feldman’s Precarious Lease: The Paris Document – out from Fitzcarraldo Editions on 30 January – delivers captivating literary reportage on Parisian squats of the early 2010s. Feldman introduces us to people who transformed abandoned buildings into homes, shelters and hubs for artistic creation. With echoes of Agnès Varda’s work, Feldman’s prose is compassionate and honest, acknowledging her own role as an observer. She answered these questions by email about her fifteen-years-long project, begun in 2009.
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