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The New York Review Of Books – February 13, 2025

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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (January 23, 2025): The latest issue features…

Urgent Messages from Eternity

An exhibition of Franz Kafka’s postcards, letters, and manuscript pages rekindles our sense of him as a writer deeply connected to his own time and place.

Franz Kafka – an exhibition at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, May 30–October 27, 2024, and the Morgan Library and Museum, New York City, November 22, 2024–April 13, 2025

Guatemala: Democracy Imperiled

Bernardo Arévalo’s inauguration last year as president of Guatemala symbolized the revival of democracy in a notoriously corrupt country. A concerted effort by obstructionist elites now threatens to oust him on specious grounds—and bring repression back.

Farmer George

Bruce Ragsdale’s Washington at the Plow examines the connections between the first president’s commitment to agricultural innovation and his evolving attitudes toward his enslaved laborers at Mount Vernon.

Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery by Bruce A. Ragsdale

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Times Literary Supplement – January 24, 2025 Issue

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (January 22, 2025): The latest issue features ‘An Individual Talent’ – T.S. Eliot’s Collected Prose…

Something to be said

Eliot’s prose writings in one chronological sweep

By Stephen Romer

Bridging the divide

Why we should listen to those with opposing views

By Carol Tavris

Out of our league

How foreign money has transformed English football

By Mike Jakeman

You can’t stay at the Y-M-C-A

The loss of civic space

By Ian Sansom

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The New Yorker Magazine – January 27, 2025 Preview

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Palm trees against a fiery sky.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (January 20, 2025): The latest issue features…

Climate Whiplash and Fire Come to L.A.

Firefighters address a burning landscape.

Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the phenomenon is on the rise worldwide. By Elizabeth Kolbert

Traversing the Metropolitan Museum’s Eight Hundred Galleries, One by One

Dan and Becky Okrent spent seven years on the Met Project, a labor of love that took them from ancient Sumer to Synchronism. By Ben McGrath

After the Fires, a Slow Night in Hollywood

The freeways were traffic-free, and so were hotels, where a handful of forlorn locals waited for what would come next. By Sheila Yasmin Marikar

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The New York Times Book Review – January 19, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (January 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Hipster Grifter’…

The Hipster Grifter Tells All

In “You’ll Never Believe Me,” Kari Ferrell details going from internet notoriety to self-knowledge in a captivating, sharp and very funny memoir.

Publishers and Authors Wonder: Can Anything Replace BookTok?

With a ban looming, publishers are hoping to pivot to new platforms, but readers fear their community of book lovers will never be the same.

Want to Get Sucked Into a Black Hole? Try This Book.

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic objects in the universe.

Books on Drug Trafficking, and Kant, Line Adam Haslett’s Shelves

His new novel is titled after Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons,” he says, “given the theme of incomprehension between generations in that book.”

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London Review Of Books – January 23, 2025 Preview

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LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (Janaury 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Reagan’s Make-Believe’….

Reagan’s Make Believe

Reagan: His Life and Legend 
by Max Boot.

That Shape Am I

Patricia Lockwood

On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy 
by Simon Critchley.

T.J. Clark: A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle

Matt Foot: Short Cuts

Jackson Lears: Reagan’s Make-Believe

Nicole Flattery: Candy Says

Brian Dillon: At the Whitechapel

Jonathan Parry: Snobs, Swots and Hacks

Stefan Collini: Karl Polanyi’s Predictions

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The New Yorker Magazine – January 20, 2025 Issue

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are sworn in.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (January 13, 2025): Barry Blitt’s “Two’s a Crowd” – Elon Musk takes center stage.

The Inauguration of Trump’s Oligarchy

Certain business titans have made Mar-a-Lago a scene of such flagrant self-abnegation, ring-kissing, and genuflection that it would embarrass a medieval Pope. By David Remnick

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Lorne Michaels Is the Real Star of “Saturday Night Live”

He’s ruled with absolute power for five decades, forever adding to his list of oracular pronouncements—about producing TV, making comedy, and living the good life. By Susan Morrison

How Religious Schools Became a Billion-Dollar Drain on Public Education

A nationwide movement has funnelled taxpayer money to private institutions, eroding the separation between church and state. By Alec MacGillis

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The New York Times Book Review – January 12, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (January 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘A Deal With The Devil’ – A.N. Wilson’s new biography of Goethe approaches its subject through his masterpiece and life’s work, the verse drama “Faust”.

3 New Thrillers Fueled by Obsession and Blackmail

Our columnist on the month’s most exciting releases.

A Sex Tape, a Senate Race and a Centuries-Old Family Curse

The scion siblings at the center of Sara Sligar’s Gothic thriller “Vantage Point” try desperately to outrun the calamity that is their inheritance.

In a Dystopian Nepal, an Earthquake’s Aftershocks Are Mostly Political

Samrat Upadhyay’s new novel, “Darkmotherland,” is a sprawling epic in which a natural disaster gives way to an authoritarian takeover.

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Times Literary Supplement – January 10, 2025 Preview

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (January 8, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ – The evolution of morality.

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The New York Review Of Books – January 16, 2025

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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (December 26, 2024): The latest issue features…

Rebels Without a Cause

In Sam Gold’s Romeo + Juliet, the lovers’ headlong rush into marriage is in tension throughout with the surprising regression to childhood that characterizes so much of the production.

Romeo + Juliet – a play by William Shakespeare, directed by Sam Gold, at Circle in the Square, New York City, October 24, 2024–February 16, 2025

Joy and Apprehension in Syria

There is widespread relief after Assad’s fall, though no one is more aware than Syrians themselves of the dangers and challenges that await them.

Evolution in the Dock

In her new book, Brenda Wineapple brings to life one of the most inflamed chapters in the history of America’s culture wars: the Scopes trial of 1925.

Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation by Brenda Wineapple