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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – MARCH 26, 2026

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Anne Enright on a day in Jeffrey Epstein’s life, Jacob Weisberg on the Great Crash, Ingrid D. Rowland on Giorgia Meloni alla fresco, Robert G. Kaiser on Citizen Bezos, Marilynne Robinson on two-party tyranny, Catherine Nicholson on the first diarist, Nathan Thrall on a lost Hebrew classic about the Nakba, David Cole on the fate of affirmative action, Aaron Matz on satire, Orville Schell on Chiang Kai-shek, Mark Lilla on a nineteenth-century protofascist, a poem by Patricia Lockwood, and much more.

‘The Devil Himself’

Sifting through a single day of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveals a surprising amount about the man and his many enablers.

Tick, Tick…Boom!

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s history of the 1929 stock market crash reminds us that financial bubbles are inevitable—and that another one may be about to pop.

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Post Mortem

When Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013 and promised to find inventive ways to make journalism profitable in the digital age, he seemed like a godsend. He wasn’t.

Rembrandt’s DNA

The Leiden Collection—one of the largest private collections of Dutch art in the world—was conceived as a “lending library for Old Masters,” animated by the humanist spirit found in Rembrandt’s paintings.

Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time: Masterpieces from the Leiden Collection – an exhibition at the H’ART Museum, Amsterdam, April 9–August 24, 2025, and the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, October 25, 2025—March 29, 2026

The Leiden Collection Online Catalogue, Fourth Edition edited by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. and Elizabeth Nogrady

LITERARY REVIEW ———- MARCH 2026 PREVIEW

LITERARY REVIEW : The latest issue features Richard Vinen on the General Strike * George Prochnik on Chaim Soutine * Michele Pridmore-Brown on the fertility industry * Peter Davidson on John Aubrey * Joan Smith on Gisèle Pelicot * Piers Brendon on Kathleen Harriman * Jonathan Keates on the Venetian Ghetto * Erik Linstrum on Asante gold * Zoe Guttenplan on road signs * Holly E J Black on illustration * Michael Burleigh on the Arctic * Frances Cairncross on corporate scandals * Andrew Seaton on wind power

Not Funny, Not Forgotten

The historian A J P Taylor was at Oxford during the general strike of 1926. After it, he later recalled, relations between the minority of undergraduates, such as himself, who had gone to help the strikers and those who had signed on as special constables or volunteer strike-breakers were cordial. Only those sensible men who had stuck to their books and essays were disdained. The whole episode seemed funny in a stereotypically English way – like a Punch cartoon brought to life.

Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art

By Celeste Marcus

The artist Chaim Soutine was obsessed with Rembrandt’s painting of a flayed and headless ox. After managing at the age of twenty, in 1913, to get from Smilovichi, a shtetl in present-day Belarus, to Paris, Soutine made many visits to the Louvre to study the canvas. In the mid-1920s, he decided to translate it into his own idiom: a voluminous impasto, churning with deep, febrile … 

Cash Cow: How the Maternal Body Became a Global Commodity – and the Hidden Costs for Women

By Alev Scott

Fuelled by desire and desperation, and considerable hucksterism, the global fertility industry is sometimes seen as having kinship with the sex trade. Its critics are keen to point out that it’s saturated with eugenicist values and geographic exploitation. In a not atypical scenario, a handful of ‘white eggs’ are purchased … 

John Aubrey at four hundred

Whenever I approach the blind corner on the path south of my house in Oxford, I ring my clear-toned bicycle bell and think of John Aubrey, who noted in the 17th century that church bells sound clearer after rain (which was true for my little bell today). I have often also passed on to tense students approaching their final exams Aubrey’s excellent advice that you are ‘more apt to study’ if you’ve played a gentle game of real tennis (or some less real modern equivalent). And whenever I find… 

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – MARCH 9, 2026 PREVIEW

Two people brave the cold windy weather against a blue sky.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Kadir Nelson’s “Cold Chill” – Trying to stay warm.

Can the Democrats Get It Together?

The fight over the 2028 primary calendar is one of several proxies for a broader battle about the future of the Party—and the search for the best nominee. By Amy Davidson Sorkin

Scandal, Protest, Goofiness, and Grandeur at the U.S. Bicentennial

This year marks the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the nation’s founding. The two hundredth wasn’t exactly smooth sailing. By Jill Lepore

The Tree House and the Oil Pipeline

In the fight against climate change, sometimes you have to go out on a limb. By Robert Moor

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW – MARCH 1, 2026

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘Now I’m A Believer’ – In “Why I am Not an Atheist”, Christopher Beha makes the case for faith…

Two Sisters Explore the Complex Legacy of Their Mother’s Art

“Backstitch,” a novel by Marian Mitchell Donahue, examines the stark contrast between public talent and private troubles.

Mario Vargas Llosa’s Swan Song Is an Ode to Peruvian Music

The final novel from a titan of Latin American literature follows a critic trying to capture the essence of his national culture.

History’s Most Prolific Female Killer, or a Victim of Disinformation?

A new book by Shelley Puhak dismantles the legend of Hungary’s infamous “blood countess,” separating fact from myth.

APOLLO MAGAZINE ——- MARCH 2026 PREVIEW

Anthony van Dyck | Exact Editions

APOLLO MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Van Dyck’s Ruff Magic’….

Was Henri Rousseau a sophisticate all along?

The self-taught painter had a trememdous sense of self-belief, despite being ridiculed in his lifetime. A landmark exhibition confirms him as a singularly modern artist

East Side success story: the Asia Society at 70

Since 1956, the New York institution has fostered cross-cultural understanding, equipped with a collection of masterpieces assembled by its founder, John D. Rockefeller

When art becomes an act of last resort

Joseph Koerner’s account of art made in extremis turns Bosch, Beckmann and Kentridge into unexpected associates across the ages

THE HUDSON REVIEW MAGAZINE – WINTER 2026

The Hudson Review | A Magazine of Literature and the Arts

THE HUDSON REVIEW: The latest issue features….

ESSAYS

The Mysterious Case of Gothic Verse Narratives by Brian Brodeur
The Intertidal Zone by Michael Carson

FICTION

Krista Robinson, Age 21 3/4, Wants These Things to Be True by Leslie Pietrzyk

POETRY

The Fells by Natania Rosenfeld
Sonnet Upon the James Webb Space Telescope; The Names of the Seasons by Robert Schultz
A Dance by Brian Swann Memorable Figures by Ellen Kaufman
Stanley Moss by Priscilla Long

ARTS CHRONICLES

Dancing in New York: Variations on a Theme by Marina Harss
Recurring Themes at the New York Film Festival by Erick Neher
Balancing Acts by Becky Y. Lu
At the Galleries by Karen Wilkin

BOOK REVIEWS

Letters of T. S. Eliot, Vol. 10 by William H. Pritchard
Poet, Lucky Poet: The Poems of Seamus Heaney by Mark Jarman
Revivals, Pastorals, a Shroud of Golden Silk by Robert Archambeau
The Making of Gertrude Stein by David Mason

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – MARCH 5, 2026 PREVIEW

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Jackson Lears – Brzezinski’s Cold War; Marlowe’s Betrayals; Alexander Bevilacqua visits Noah’s Ark; Caravaggio’s Clothes and more.

Lee Gillette, Neil Blackshaw, Ed Jesudason, Samuel Freeman, David Foglesong, Jim Holt, Michael Neill, Malcolm Parry

James Butler‘Need a lord on the board?’

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – MARCH 2, 2026 PREVIEW

In the winter, a man sits between a window and a radiator and is both freezing and sweating.


THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE : The latest issue features Rachel Aviv on the trial of Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists, Tad Friend on James Talarico, David Sedaris on being broke in New York, and more.

Ian McKellen Swings from Shakespeare to Gandalf to Virtual Reality

On a visit to New York, the actor reflected on mortality and coming out, and unleashed an Elizabethan anti-ICE monologue on “Colbert” that went viral. By Henry Alford

James Talarico Puts His Faith in Texas Voters

The Senate candidate believes that Democrats can win by appealing to higher values. Can he succeed in the age of Trump? By Tad Friend

Why the World Cup Can Feel Like War

Soccer stadiums can be dominated by violence, tribalism, chauvinism, and near-religious fervor‚ animated by the memory of old hostilities and the power of ritual. By Ian Buruma

The Trial of Gisèle Pelicot’s Rapists United France and Fractured Her Family

After fifty-one men were convicted, Pelicot became a feminist hero. But additional accusations left her children struggling to accept her new role. By Rachel Aviv

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – MARCH 12, 2026

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features

If These Walls Could Talk

In A House for Miss Pauline, the Jamaican novelist Diana McCaulay examines her family’s shadowy history by telling the story of a woman who builds her house with the remains of the manor of a former slave plantation.

A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay

A Bitter Winter in Ukraine

Four years after their full-scale invasion, the Russians are trying to freeze Ukraine into submission by relentlessly attacking the country’s energy grid.

A Real Live Socialist

What Bernie Sanders brought to the job of mayor of Burlington and what he did with it help explain what matters to him and how he fits into American political argument.

Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician and the Transformation of One American Place by Dan Chiasson