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
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
The New Yorker Magazine Dec. 30, 2024 & Jan. 6, 2025
The New Yorker (December 23, 2024): Diana Ejaita’s “Midnight Moments” – The magical blur of New Year’s Eve.
How Much Does Our Language Shape Our Thinking?
English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result. By Manvir Singh
Alice Munro’s Passive Voice
The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story. By Rachel Aviv
Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome?
The history of recorded music is now at our fingertips. But the streamer’s algorithmic skill at giving us what we like may keep us from what we’ll love. By Hua Hsu
The New York Times Book Review – Dec. 22, 2024
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (December 22, 2024): The latest features…
When Stephen Sondheim Transformed Theater, and Theatergoers, Forever
An incisive new book, “How Sondheim Can Change Your Life,”
The Books Readers Loved in 2024
Memorable characters, delightful nonfiction and poignant novels stuck with people across the world.
Why One of the World’s Most Elusive Writers Still Haunts Readers
Newly translated letters reveal the inner life of Paul Celan, offering clues to his enigmatic poems.
Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’
THE ART NEWSPAPER (December 20, 2024): It is the final episode of 2024 and so, as always, we review the year, looking at the top stories, the big issues and the best art.
Host Ben Luke is joined by The Art Newspaper’s contemporary art correspondent, Louisa Buck, our art market editor, Kabir Jhala, and Ben Sutton, our editor in the Americas.
Under discussion, among much else: the growing faultlines between institutions and artists in relation to Gaza; the big museum stories, from Saudi Arabian funding to attacks on artworks and restitution; a market roundup; culture and the climate emergency; and the panel’s exhibitions and biennials of the year.
Times Literary Supplement December 20, 2024 Preview
The New Yorker Magazine – December 23, 2024 Issue
The New Yorker Magazine (December 16, 2024): Kate Beaton’s “A Murder Mystery” – Take a closer look at the cover of the annual Cartoons & Puzzles Issue.
Syria After Assad
The scramble is on to define the future of Syria, quickly, to avert a war even more divisive than the conflict that has riven the nation for thirteen years. By Robin Wright
The Secret History of Risotto
The dish is governed by a set of laws that are rooted in tradition, rich in common sense, and aching to be broken or bent. By Anthony Lane
Brady Corbet’s Outsider American Epic
“The Brutalist,” the director’s nearly four-hour study of immigration, identity, and marriage, flowed from his own struggle to create art without compromise. “You really have to dare to suck to transcend,” he said. By Alexandra Schwartz
Arts & Culture: The New Criterion – January 2025
Siena splendor at the Met by Karen Wilkin
Life before death by Anthony Daniels
The scream of steam by Jeremy Black
Virgil Thompson at the Chelsea by David Dubal
Arts: The Brooklyn Rail – December/January 2025
The Brooklyn Rail (December 11, 2024): The latest issue features…
“When you invent the ship, you must also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane, you must also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution… Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.”
–Paul Virilio
“The human spirit must prevail over technology.”
–Albert Einstein
Art
- SARA CWYNAR with Chloe Stagaman
- MARA DE LUCA with Tom McGlynn
- LEE MARY MANNING with Jean Dykstra
- JOEL STERNFELD with Geoffrey Batchen
- All the Feels – By Suzanne Hudson
Critics Page
- For Love or Money: Surviving Criticism – By Lilly Wei and Barbara A. MacAdam
- Ann Binlot
- William Corwin
- Will Fenstermaker
- Manami Fujimori
- Melissa Gronlund
- Eleanor Heartney
- Karen Michel
- Carter Ratcliff
- Walter Robinson
- Andrew Russeth
- Jillian Steinhauer
- Sean Tatol
- Xintian Wang
ArtSeen
Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Tapes, Fields, and Trees, 1975–84 – By Rebecca Allan
David Smith: The Nature of Sculpture – By Phong Bui
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 – By David Carrier
Jaeheon Lee: Ghosts in the Garden – By William Corwin
Edges of Ailey – By Ekin Erkan
Patterns in Abstraction – By Leia Genis
Jordan Nassar: THERE – By Robert Alan Grand
Jay DeFeo: Trees – By Suzanne Hudson
Nour Mobarak: Dafne Phono – By Eana Kim
Yuli Yamagata: Ghosts Don’t Wear Watches – By Alfred Mac Adam
Soledad Sevilla: Ritmos, tramas, variables – By Valerie Mindlin
Mark Bradford: Keep Walking – By Charles Moore
André Griffo: Exploded View – By Rômulo Moraes
Jesse Krimes: Corrections – By Joanna Seifter
Lynne Drexler: Color Notes – By David Whelan
Rosemarie Beck: Earthly Paradise – By Leah Triplett Harrington
Francesco Clemente: Summer Love in the Fall – By Selena Parnon
Sean Scully: Duane Street, 1981–1983 – By Raphy Sarkissian
Henni Alftan: Stop Making Sense – By Ann C. Collins
Hap Tivey: Perception is the Medium – By Benjamin Clifford
William Gropper: Artist of the People – By Margot Yale
Los Angeles Review Of Books – Winter 2024-2025
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