By James Bloodworth
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (June 2, 2025): The latest issue features David Hockney’s “Going Up Garrowby Hill” – An artist revisits seasons across a lifetime. By Françoise MoulyArt by David Hockney
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
As the Lebanese Army tries to assert its authority in the war-torn south, calls to disarm Hezbollah are rising. By Rania Abouzeid
The obits for the tech mogul’s time at the Department of Government Efficiency are, justifiably, vicious. By Susan B. Glasser
By Martin Ivens
Can the world’s dominant currency survive Donald Trump?
What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (May 8, 2025): The latest issue features…
What caused Venezuela’s collapse, and who is responsible? A recent memoir tells the story as so many families have lived it.
Motherland: The Disintegration of a Family in a Collapsed Venezuela by Paula Ramón, with translations by Julia Sanches and Jennifer Shyue
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela by William Neuman
The detailed information gathered by the French curator Rose Valland about the Nazis’ looting of artworks made it possible for the Allies to recover tens of thousands of them after World War II.
The Art Front: The Defense of French Collections, 1939–1945 by Rose Valland, translated from the French by Ophélie Jouan, with a foreword by Robert M. Edsel
An electoral coalition of the conspiracy cultures of both the Christian right and the countercultural left helped bring Donald Trump back to power, and now pseudoscience and paranoia are in the ascendant.
Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker
Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists and the New Order in Wellness by Stewart Home
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (May 7, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Other America’ – The Hispanic Achievement…
Why Anglo-American colonialism has no claim to moral superiority
The former editor of Vanity Fair looks back on an era of excess
Fantastic gloomth: Victor Hugo the artist
LITERARY REVIEW (May 1, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Mad About Diana’…
THE EUROPEAN REVIEW OF BOOKS (May 1, 2025): The latest issue features …Around the world in strawberry red. Schengen’s pseudo-borderless « Europe ». A day in Minsk & an eternity at the border. A trip through Syria’s now-uninhabited terror apparatus (archivists needed). Cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, agricultural-novelists in Switzerland & France, tree-huggers in The Hague…
Our first piece from Issue Eight, out from behind the paywall! « It’s best to go into Schengen’s history unshocked by contradiction. by George Blaustein
Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border. Paula Domingo Pasarin
Two novelists (one Swiss, one Spanish) sign up for agricultural jobs. Tania Roettger
A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities. by Karim Kattan
Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal
by Quentin Skinner.
The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
by Blake Gopnik.
Inside Thatcher’s Monetarism Experiment: The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy by Tim Lankester.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (April 28, 2025): The latest issue features Barry Blitt’s “The First Hundred Days” – A beacon extinguished.
Now we know that Donald Trump’s first term, his initial attempt at authoritarian primacy, was amateur hour, a fitful rehearsal. By David Remnick
Each morning, before the day’s decree, I turned to a slim book, hoping for sense, or solace. By Jill Lepore
Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are. By Andrew Marantz
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