TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Troubled Mind’ – Oliver Sack’s personal demons…
Revisiting W. H. Auden’s postwar poetry collection The Shield of Achilles By John Fuller
The inner life of Oliver Sacks, as revealed by his letters By Andrew Scull
APOLLO MAGAZINE (March 3, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Performance art in Renaissance Italy’; Versailles in the 21st century and How to give back looted objects…
Including a new golden age at Versailles, Cycladic art over the centuries, the dangers of living in Los Angeles, Tracey Emin’s passion for painting, what new EU import laws will do to the art market, and a preview of TEFAF Maastricht; plus reviews of modernism in Brazil, the drawings of Henri Michaux, and the essays of Svetlana Alpers. And: Tessa Hadley on Bellini’s shocking depiction of the making of a martyr
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 3, 2025): The latest issue features Christoph Niemann’s “Vitamin N.Y.C.” – Bright spots amid gloomy winter months.
While F.D.R. set a modern standard for the revitalization of a society, Trump seems determined to prove how quickly he can spark its undoing. By David Remnick
If you’ve got ovaries, you’ll go through it. So why does every generation think it’s the first to have hot flashes? By Rebecca Mead
Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America’s oldest university—and the soul of higher education. By Nathan Heller
LITERARY REVIEW (March 1, 2025): The latest issue features…
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features:
With his designs on Greenland and Gaza, Trump has signaled that his first term’s outlandish gestures are the second term’s savage demands.
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
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 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
A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep. By Julian Lucas
Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried? By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
THE NEW CRITERION MAGAZINE (February 14, 2025): The latest issue features…
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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 Argentine pontiff who accepts his own fallibility By A. N. Wilson
By Mary Beard
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 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
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
New York’s biggest foreskin fans take their anti-circumcision message to the streets. By Diego Lasarte
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