LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – APRIL 2, 2026 PREVIEW
Tag Archives: Arts & Literature
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – MARCH 30, 2026 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Roz Chast’s “City Beasts” – Where the wild things are. Also, Jon Lee Anderson on Cuba’s crumbling regime, Jia Tolentino on Robyn, Jill Lepore on entrusting A.I. with moral judgment, and more.
The First Casualty of Trump’s War in Iran Was the Truth
The cruellest irony is that of a President who addresses the Iranian people in the language of liberation and then threatens freedom of the press back home. By David Remnick
Does A.I. Need a Constitution?
A new set of precepts is meant to make the chatbot Claude wise, decent, and safe. It also marks a striking transfer of public responsibility from constitutional government to private tech firms. By Jill Lepore
Is Cuba Next?
Trump’s campaign to topple foreign adversaries encounters a battered but defiant regime. By Jon Lee Anderson
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – MARCH 20, 2026 PREVIEW
Darkness visible
The struggle between good and evil in William Golding’s fiction By Alan Jenkins
Clock stopper
The many lives of W. H. Auden By Ian Sansom
All-seeing eye
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, the controversial US tech company By Emily Jones
The feeling of being alive
Why do we experience consciousness?
Guernica Magazine – March 2026 Preview
GUERNICA MAGAZINE: The latest issue features….
Wartime Beirut, Between Ruin and Routine: A Photo Essay
“Let Lebanon Live Before I Die.” — Graffiti in Beirut
By Alex Milan Durie March 15, 2026
My cousin Sami is still bulking
“His gym is Gaza, and every piece carries weight.”
By L.F. Khouri March 15, 2026
A Month Inside the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
“There are no easy takeaways. No tidy solutions. But I still think it matters to pay attention.”
By Jidi Guo March 15, 2026
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – MARCH 23, 2026 PREVIEW
Trump’s Mass-Detention Campaign
Even with Kristi Noem gone, the Administration’s immigration agenda shows no signs of flagging—in fact, it is leading toward a new humanitarian and legal crisis. By Jonathan Blitzer
What’s Behind Trump’s New World Disorder?
A foreign policy freed of liberal pretenses and imperial ambitions could lead to restraint—or, as the Iran attack shows, simply license hit-and-run belligerence. By Daniel Immerwahr
Who Bankrolled the American Revolution?
Our history too often sidesteps the question of finances. But sonorous ideals don’t keep an army supplied with uniforms, guns, and grub. By Adam Gopnik
GAGOSIAN QUARTERLY – SPRING 2026 PREVIEW
The House on Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell’s Studio Re-Created by Wes Anderson
The House on Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell’s Studio Re-Created by Wes Anderson is an exhibition conceived by curator Jasper Sharp and the acclaimed American filmmaker. The show brings Cornell’s New York studio to the heart of Paris, transforming Gagosian’s storefront gallery into a meticulously staged tableau—part time capsule, part life-size shadow box—for the first solo presentation of the artist’s work in Paris in more than four decades. In this video, Anderson discusses the genesis of the exhibition and the process by which it came together.
Michael Heizer: Negative Sculpture
Over the Guardrails, Into the Water
Berthe Weill
Titus Kaphar: The Fire This Time
A Tremendous Generosity: Jeff Koons on Marcel Duchamp
Jonas Wood: The Rules of the Game
Game Changer
Beatrice Wood
Jasper Johns: Between the Clock and the Bed
Nan Goldin: Another Word for Love
Frank Gehry: Every Building, a Self-Portrait
Fashion and Art: Thomas Gainsborough
The Frick Collection, New York, opened Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture on February 12. The first exhibition devoted to the English artist’s portraiture ever held in New York, the show comprises more than two dozen paintings and explores the role of fashion in Gainsborough’s depictions, in terms both of the sitters’ clothes and of the larger context of class, labor, craft, and time. Aimee Ng, the Frick’s Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, has been working on the show for a decade; last fall she met with the Quarterly’s Derek C. Blasberg to talk about this historic project.
THE PARIS REVIEW-SPRING ’26
THE PARIS REVIEW : The Spring 2026 issue features Interviews, Prose, Poetry and Art….
- Sarah Schulman on the Art of Nonfiction: “I like to have my say, obviously. And if people would have just let me talk, some of these books wouldn’t have had to be written.”
- Darryl Pinckney on the Art of Nonfiction: “There are moments when you run up against a white wall—there’s a white man, white man, white man, white man—and the story somehow has to be uncovered.”
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – MARCH 19, 2026 PREVIEW
Iran, Week One
The attack launched on Iran by the US and Israel on 28 February was a textbook case of international aggression, justified in only the most cursory fashion by fictional Iranian threats and undertaken with no clear aims and no clear demands or terms. In announcing the war Donald Trump described it as a wholesale attack on both government and state. The US and Israel would ‘raze their missile industry to the ground’ and ‘annihilate their navy’. Benjamin Netanyahu called on Iranians to ‘come out to the streets and finish the job’. By Tom Stevenson
Mummy’s Favourite
The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the Yorks, however, enjoyment was everything, and the notion of royal sacrifice, arguably a red herring in the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was finally obliterated by their actions. By Andrew O’Hagan
Marlowe’s Betrayals
As Stephen Greenblatt’s Dark Renaissance shows despite itself, it is not Marlowe’s life story that we still need, but his plays and poems: we might well want to avert our eyes from the bathetically dismal life of the man who wrote them. By Michael Dobson
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lownie
Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Andrew O’Hagan
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – MARCH 16, 2026 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Barry Blitt’s “War-a-Lago” – No Nobel Peace Prize in sight.
Where Is the Iran War Headed?
President Trump has both called for Iranians to rise up and oust the ruthless theocracy and then said that he’s fully prepared to deal with a new religious leader. By Robin Wright
The Zombie Regulator
As the cost of living continues to spiral upward, the Trump Administration is gutting the government agency built to protect Americans from financial ruin. By E. Tammy Kim
The Unmaking of the American University
For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government. By Nicholas Lemann
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
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