Literarature: The Paris Review – Winter 2024-2025
Tag Archives: Arts & Literature
Fredric Jameson on the Art of Criticism: “Ideological critique has to end up being a critique of the self. You can’t recognize an ideology unless, in some sense, you see it in yourself.”
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Dec. 16, 2024
President Emmanuel Macron Has Plunged France into Chaos
Lawmakers have toppled the government for the first time since 1962. How did we get here? By Lauren Collins
What Will Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Accomplish with Doge?
Two political newcomers have arrived to slash big government, but so far the project seems less revolutionary than advertised.
Arts & Literature Preview: Kenyon Review – Fall 2024
Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’
The Week In Art Podcast (December 6, 2024): The Art Newspaper’s editor, Americas, Ben Sutton, and our art market editor, Kabir Jhala, are in Florida and report on the sales and the mood on the first VIP day at Art Basel Miami Beach.
On 8 December, the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris will reopen, more than five years after the fire that partly destroyed it. Ben Luke talks to one of the architects responsible for its rise from the ashes, Pascal Prunet. And this episode’s Work of the Week is The Madonna and Child with Saints (1526-27) by Parmigianino, better known as The Vision of Saint Jerome.
The painting this week returned to public display for the first time in 10 years, in a new exhibition at the National Gallery in London, following conservation, and we talk to Maria Alambritis, the show’s co-curator.
Art Basel Miami Beach, until Sunday, 8 December.
Notre-Dame reopens on Sunday, 8 December.
Parmigianino: The Vision of Saint Jerome, National Gallery, London, until 9 March 2025
Literary Arts Preview: n+1 Magazine – Winter 2025
@nplusonemag (December 4, 2024): The Winter 2025 issue of n+1, RERUN features:
Hannah Zeavin on psychoanalysis’s Palestine exception
Will Tavlin on Netflix’s assault on cinema
Mina Tavakoli attends a ventriloquism convention
Nicholas Dames reads books about parents reading books
Dawn Lundy Martin on falling in and out of love with the university
New fiction by Rachel Khong, Jill Crawford, and Claire Baglin
Bassem Saad on the afterlives of Mahdi Amel
Alan Dean on Radu Jude, Romania’s Godard
Mark Krotov on the return of Trump
Plus the intellectual situation: the editors on Fredric Jameson
Country Life Magazine – December 4, 2024 Preview
Country Life Magazine (December 3, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Full English’ – Why our homegrown style is back….
London Life
- Richard MacKichan finds Sir Paul Smith rockin’ around Claridge’s Christmas tree
- Catriona Gray meets the movers and shakers of the capital’s art world
- All you need to know this month in the capital
Caroline Moorehead’s favourite painting
The author selects a portrait that shows the ‘very essence of what it was to be Sicilian’
The world turned upside down
Carla Carlisle—wife of a farmer and a diversifier extraordinaire— offers an insider’s view on the Government’s ‘Great Betrayal’
What to look for in winter
Now is not the time to hibernate, suggests John Wright, as he encourages us to appreciate the countryside’s stark, intricate beauty in these colder months
Putting in a Good Word
Lucy Denton delves into the remarkable history of Stationers’ Hall, the central London home of the Worshipful Company of Stationers for the past 400 years
The legacy
Amie Elizabeth White hails Henry Cole, inventor of Christmas cards
The rocky-pool horror show
John Lewis-Stempel loves to be beside the seaside as he examines the enduring appeal of England’s glorious coastline
Bowler me over
Matthew Dennison tips his hat to the rural origins of the bowler as he celebrates its 175th birthday
A touch of frost
Beware an ill wind blowing us into 2025, warns Lia Leendertz
Piste de résistance
Joseph Phelan finds a business on an upslope when he visits the last ski-maker in Scotland
Eyes wide shut
Sleep in art is often drunken, deadly or the stuff of nightmares, but rarely is it peaceful, as Claudia Pritchard discovers
Size matters
Charles Quest-Ritson cranes his neck to take in the sheer scale of the specimens at West Sussex’s Architectural Plants
Kitchen garden cook
Melanie Johnson on sprouts
Travel
- Life in Grenada quickly grows on Rosie Paterson
- Catamarans and cabanas
- Jamaica’s Blue Mountains are heaven for Steven King
- Fine dining is the holy grail for Pamela Goodman
Culture: The American Scholar – Winter 2025
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR (December 2, 2024): The latest issue features ‘From Atop The Magic Mountain’ – One-Hundred years later, Thomas Mann’s epic remains as prophetic as ever.
Under a Spell Everlasting
Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war By Samantha Rose Hill
Aging Out
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night
The Fair Fields
Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil
Books: Literary Review Magazine – December 2024
Literary Review – December 2, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Mandeville’s Dangerous Idea’
Lines of Insight
“Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute” By Nicholas Fox Weber
Will Someone Think of the Barristers?
“Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe” By John Callanan
Raising the Flag of Freedom
“Predator of the Seas: A History of the Slaveship That Fought for Emancipation” By Stephen Taylor
Literary Arts: The London Magazine – December 2024
The London Magazine (December 2, 2024): The latest issue features poetry, short fiction and…
Joey Connolly on information overload, syzygy and Liz Truss.
Betty Rose Townley on Hera Lindsay Bird and the texture of bisexuality.
Jen Calleja on writing experimental memoirs.
Aidan Tulloch on walking through England’s World’s Ends.
Richie Jones on Jack Reacher and headbutts.
Reviews by Rowland Bagnall, Tommy Gilhooly, Patrick Cash, Tallulah Griffith.
Cover image by Paul Graham.
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Dec. 9, 2024
Stopping the Press
After spending years painting the media as the “enemy of the people,” Donald Trump is ready to intensify his battle against the journalists who cover him. By David Remnick
R.F.K., Jr., Wants to Eliminate Fluoridated Water. He Used to Bottle and Sell It
Donald Trump’s nominee to lead H.H.S. once started a bottled-water line, Keeper Springs. What was in it? By Charles Bethea
On the Block: Where Jerry Lewis and Buddy Hackett Once Schvitzed
The tummlers have moved on, but the distinctive Friars Club building, in midtown, is going to the highest bidder. By Bruce Handy
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