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The New York Review Of Books – December 19, 2024
Israel’s Revenge: An Interview with Rashid Khalidi
The scholar of Palestinian history talks about what has and has not surprised him about the world‘s response to Israel‘s assault on Gaza.
Under the Spanish Volcano
A recent exhibition at the Prado showcased artists engaging with the ferment and conflict of turn-of-the-century Spain.
‘The Look of Shame’
The French director Catherine Breillat has spent her career insisting on women’s agency and reclaiming taboo desires—sometimes with troubling implications.
Cover: Claremont Review Of Books – Fall 2024
America’s Red Shift
Now who’s on the wrong side of history? by Charles R. Kesler
Donald Trump and the Republican Party had a triumphant Election Day, gaining ground in all parts of the country and among almost all voting sectors. He won all seven of the ballyhooed swing states, by comfortable margins except in the blue-wall states of Wisconsin (where his margin of victory was 0.9%), Michigan (1.4%), and Pennsylvania (1.8%). Still, he won all three blue-wall states twice—in 2024 as in 2016—something no Republican had managed since Ronald Reagan. Trump regains office alongside a Republican-controlled Senate and House of Representatives, too, the trifecta of what political scientists call “undivided government,” not enjoyed by Republicans since the first two years of his own first term.
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Political and Strategic History of the World, Volume I: From Antiquity to the Caesars, 14 A.D.
Light of the Mind, Light of the World: Illuminating Science Through Faith
Farnsworth’s Classical English Argument
London Review Of Books – December 5, 2024 Preview
Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War by Perry Anderson.
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie
Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Thistle and the Rose: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Tudor by Linda Porter
Jessica Olin
The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis: ‘Time and Western Man’ edited by Paul Edwards
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Nov. 29, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (November 27, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Mutti Knows Best?’ – Angela Merkel’s triumph and tragedy; Gaughin’s uncensored thoughts; Gladiator II; C.S. Lewis’s Oxford and “The Magic Mountain” at 100…
Country Life Magazine – November 27, 2024 Preview
Country Life Magazine (November 26, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Advent Calendar Special’…
The master builder
Carla Passino is captivated by floral photographs that evoke 17th-century still-life paintings
A little mite with a mighty heart
She may be tiny, but Jenny wren certainly makes her presence felt, declares Mark Cocker
Worth its weight in gold
There’s more to myrrh than meets the eye, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee
Now that packs a punch
Lucien de Guise is bowled over by the intoxicating concoctions mixed by Dickens and George IV
Pie say!
Neil Buttery tucks into the tale of the Yorkshire Christmas Pye
Christmas gifts
Pick out those perfect presents with a helping hand from Hetty Lintell and Amie Elizabeth White
Mayara Magri’s favourite painting
The Royal Ballet dancer selects an inspiring, transformative work
Hardy and the country house
The author’s Wessex is brought to life in Jeremy Musson’s words and Matthew Rice’s drawings
Beauty by numbers
Deborah Nicholls-Lee is fascinated by fractals, the exquisite, ever-repeating patterns in Nature
The fall of Albion
John Lewis-Stempel urges us to rediscover our love of heathland, now a rarer habitat than rainforest
Get a Grip
Andrew Green rounds up the animals in Dickens’s life and work
First out of the lychgate
Jack Watkins explores the folklore and function of the lychgate
Little things that make a big difference
Our guide to entertaining in style
Thank you for the memories
From flying a Spitfire to sushi-making, the COUNTRY LIFE team puts gift experiences to the test
The legacy
Kate Green reveals how Sir David Willcocks changed the sound of Christmas with Carols for Choirs
Luxury
Hetty Lintell on saunas, socks, silk bows and precious stones
Now we’re just some gadgets that you used to know
Neil Buttery sorts the pudding prick from the tongue press
Lid pro quo
Rob Crossan talks Tupperware
Kitchen garden cook
Melanie Johnson on cabbage
It’s always darkest before the dawn
A black fox illuminates a dreary dawn for John Lewis-Stempel
Let’s go to the movies
Victoria Marston looks back at classic film posters
It takes the biscuit
Matthew Dennison explores the tin-novations that made Huntley & Palmers a household name
Forever a chorister
Sarah Sands shares how choral singing shaped the life of her late brother Kit Hesketh-Harvey
‘What a good boy am I’
Ian Morton investigates the real meanings of our nursery rhymes
The great astral sneeze
Harry Pearson finds out why this is the year of the Northern Lights
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Country Life Magazine (November 20, 2024): The latest issue features Winston Churchill – The wit and wisdom of the great man…
‘Let us go forward together’
As we approach the 150th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill’s birthday, Amie Elizabeth White and Octavia Pollock pay homage to the great man, in his own words.
Entertaining His Majesty
In the second of two articles, John Goodall charts the 1560s and 1620s expansion of Apethorpe Palace in Northamptonshire
Landscape of ‘seamless sameness’
England’s heather moorland and its glorious purple swathe is a wonder of the Western world, suggest John Lewis-Stempel
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Do you know a Yonerywander from a Vinvertuperator? Engage your inner Edward Lear as Daniel McKay welcomes you into his wacky world of whimwondery
Wibble wobble, wibble wobble, jelly made of paint
Food, glorious food is fuelling the creativity of modern still-life artists discovers Catriona Gray
Sex, lies and sewing machines
The sewing machine rose to be an emblem of domesticity, but its invention is a story of Saints and Singers. Matthew Dennison follows the thread
Interiors
Raze to the ground or renovate? Has the open-plan layout had its day? Cart shed or garage? Giles Kime considers some key architectural conundrums
Wisley reinvented
John Hoyland is captivated by the spectacular transformation of Piet Oudolf’s double borders at the RHS garden in Surrey
Some like it hot
If you like your chili ‘hotter than the hinges of hell’, Tom Parker Bowles has just the dish for you (and there’s not a bean in sight)
Wooden walls restored
John Goodall lauds a decade-long project to rescue a unique painted church at Ursi, Romania
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Nov. 22, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (November 20, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Uncommon Reader’ – Virginia Woolf in literary tradition..
What we want from her books
Virginia Woolf as reader, writer and literary inspiration By Sophie Oliver
A star is torn
The unravelling of Vivien Leigh’s marriage amid her mental health breakdown By Vanessa Curtis
Ignorant armies
History as an ideological battleground By Niall Ferguson
Bergson’s boom and bust
How the world’s most famous thinker fell out of fashion By Mark Sinclair
Arts & Culture: The New Criterion -December 2024
Art: a special section
An interview with an Old Masters dealer by Benjamin Riley
Monet reversionism by Paul Hayes Tucker
Tokens of culture by James Panero
Politics & the Venice Biennale by Philip Rylands
A monumental park by Michele H. Bogart
Ghiberti versus Donatello by Eric Gibson
The New York Review Of Books – December 5, 2024
The Second Coming
Disinhibition will be the order of the day in Donald Trump’s America. By Erin Maglaque
Soundscapes of the Silenced
In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification. Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.
“A Veil of Silence: Women and Sound in Renaissance Italy” by Julia Rombough
In Search of Fullness
In his new book, the philosopher Charles Taylor looks at modern poetry as a unique record of spiritual experience in a secular age.
“Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment” by Charles Taylor
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