THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features…
My Grandma Moses by Jane Kallir
America beautiful by James Panero
Leiden lights by Karen Wilkin
Behind the scenes by Michele H. Bogart
The consonant Cushing by Alexandra Cushing Howard
A bull with his own china shop by Eric Gibson
Mittel march by Peter Pennoyer
The unsentimental builder by Michael J. Lewis
The mage of Torino by Philip Rylands
“Architecture unshackled” by Harry Adams
I’m starting to feel some pre-emptive nostalgia when I do a Google search. Yes, it’s true, search can sometimes take you to places you don’t want to go. But at least a ‘classical’ search engine like Google in the 2000s and 2010s took you outside itself, and perhaps implicitly prompted you to evaluate critically what you found there. by Donald MacKenzie
Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was being executed after a battle, or made a human sacrifice, but the institution was taken for granted until the growth of abolitionism in the later 18th century. Liverpool could hardly be an exception when the slave trade was so embedded in its economy. By John Kerrigan
We still live in the long shadow of Habsburg disintegration. In addition to the lingering legacy of 19th-century state formations, European and global politics are shaken by continuing reverberations in states that have disappeared from Europe since 1990: Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, the GDR and, above all, the Soviet Union. By Holly Case
Charting Seamus Heaney’s Wordsworthian journey By Roy Foster
Writing novels by AI – and committee By Gordon Fraser
Our contributors choose their favourites
Simone Weil’s ethical life class By A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Edel Rodriguez’s “Mayor Mamdani”
His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.
For years before taking office, the former Vice-President appeared less dogmatic than he was.
On “West End Girl,” all the gritty bits are there: messages with a husband’s mistress, the discovery of a cache of sex toys.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features ‘Sudden Shower’ by Sergio-Garcia Sanchez.
ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about. By James Somers
The President’s goals were clear on the first day of his term, when he issued an executive order overruling the Fourteenth Amendment’s birthright-citizenship clause. By Jelani Cobb
The jewel heist at the Louvre reminded Brooklynites of the time, in 1952, when two bejewelled crowns were swiped from a beloved local church—the one with a Mob boss on the ceiling. By Susan Mulcahy
The Poems of Seamus Heaney By Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis (edd.)
A woman stands, oblivious to our gaze, absorbed entirely in her activity – reading, pouring, weighing, holding out her pearls. A window to the left admits a radiance, which falls variously on the common stuff the room contains. The light enters as an absolute blank, but infuses colour as it illuminates the scene.
The rush to tell the story of Katherine Mansfield’s short, fascinating life began as soon as she died. Her husband, John Middleton Murry, a gifted editor, notoriously turned the publication of her writing into an industry.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Extinction rebellion’ – How Tennyson speaks to our fears.
The troubled history of US-China relations By Katie Stallard
Iris Murdoch’s unseen poetry, transcribed for the first time By Miles Leeson
Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory By Angela Leighton
Tales of the uncanny from a master of ambiguity By Joyce Carol Oates
107 Days by Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris’s memoir 107 Days succeeds at least in distilling the evasions and weaknesses of the modern Democratic Party.
The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty by Natasha Wheatley
How States Die: Membership and Survival in the International System by Douglas Lemke
World War I set the stage a century ago for new ways of thinking about where states come from and what happens when they disappear.
After a gloomy few years, promising auction results and some exciting upcoming sales suggest that the market could be on the road to recovery
A century ago, Alexander Tamanyan devised a startling layout for the city. Despite changes in regime and fashion, his vision has endured
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Racing Through Fall” – The city’s autumnal glow.
The act of destruction is precisely the point: a kind of performance piece meant to display Trump’s arbitrary power over the Presidency, including its physical seat. By Adam Gopnik
His posts and rants are omnipresent, ugly, and unhinged. Don’t look to history to make it make sense. By Jill Lepore
A data center, which can use as much electricity as Philadelphia, is the new American factory, creating the future and propping up the economy. How long can this last? By Stephen Witt
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