“The Character of Place” and “A Cultural Revolution on the Right”
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The Hedgehog Review – Fall 2025 Preview
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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – OCTOBER 31, 2025 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Extinction rebellion’ – How Tennyson speaks to our fears.
Collision course
The troubled history of US-China relations By Katie Stallard
Playing a game to tell the truth
Iris Murdoch’s unseen poetry, transcribed for the first time By Miles Leeson
The Kraken wakes
Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory By Angela Leighton
Winter is coming!
Tales of the uncanny from a master of ambiguity By Joyce Carol Oates
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – NOVEMBER 20, 2025
The Lingering Delusion
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.
Falling Off the Map
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.
The New Criterion – November 2025 Preview
THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features…
Will China bury us? by Andrew Roberts
Leukophobia & other obsessions by Victor Davis Hanson
The lost worlds of Lawrence Durrell by Charles Sligh
Great genes by David Dubal
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – NOVEMBER 6, 2025
Impassioned Ferocity
A critic’s power lies in the testing of deeply held beliefs about the nature of art and art’s place in the world against the experience of specific artworks.
Authority by Andrea Long Chu
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
Those Passions: On Art and Politics by T.J. Clark
Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies by Jonathan Kramnick
No Judgment by Lauren Oyler
Storm Warnings
The MAGA movement is not fed by conservative ideas but by a nihilistic, apocalyptic determination to stage a counterrevolution against the Sixties, against liberalism, against even democracy itself.
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz
Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right by Laura K. Field
A Brief Literary Emancipation
Early modern female writers, who were denied the sort of authority usually needed to write literary criticism, were also freed from its constraints.
Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – OCTOBER 17, 2025 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Artist in the making: Joyce Carol Oates on Sally Mann’s photographic craft’
Peer group
The British upper classes today By Michael Hall
Uniquely hers
A how-to book by ‘one of the greatest’ American photographers’ By Joyce Carol Oates
Master of the apocalypse
László Krasznahorkai, Nobel laureate in literature By George Szirtes
Thoroughly modern maenads
Religion, immigration, gender politics and severed heads By Mary Beard
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – OCTOBER 23, 2025
Algorithm Nation
Fights about digital filtering tools have turned more and more bitter. That’s because of their extraordinary power to shape both political opinion and mass culture.
Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality by Renée DiResta
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
Equality Without Feminism?
The Soviet Union’s ambitious program of gender equality could never be separated from its abuses of power.
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy by Julia Ioffe
The Big Cheese
Shadow Ticket is brisker than Thomas Pynchon’s other work, but it’s full of his usual vaudevillian sensibility, and it addresses his favorite theme: how to live freely under powerful systems of control.
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
LITERARY REVIEW – OCTOBER 2025 ISSUE PREVIEW
LITERARY REVIEW : The latest issue features….Read All About It; Goethe’s Grand Ideas; The Basquiat Boom; Ministers & Monarchs; Operation Baku…
Strong Constitution: ‘Power and the Palace: The Inside Story of the Monarchy and 10 Downing Street’ By Valentine Low
Blood, Rage & Terror: ‘The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s’ By Jason Burke
Stocks & Scares: ‘1929: The Inside Story of the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History’ By Andrew Ross Sorkin
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – OCTOBER 3, 2025 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Sylvia Plath’s Ariel at sixty; The case against progress; Patricial Lockwood’s bag of scraps…
Lioness of God
The sixtieth anniversary ‘heritage’ edition of Ariel By Seamus Perry
The Puritan reflex
Thomas Pynchon’s haunted vision of history By James Marcus
A dashed clever fellow
The wisdom of Bertie Wooster By Tim Lake
Printed by herself
The precocious poetry of Charlotte Brontë By Samantha Ellis
THE PARIS REVIEW – FALL 2025
THE PARIS REVIEW : The latest issue features interviews with Maggie Nelson and Eliot Weinberger, prose by Bud Smith and Yan Lianke, poetry by Patricia Lockwood and Ishion Hutchinson, art by Martha Diamond and Talia Chetrit, a cover by Issy Wood, and more…
Eliot Weinberger on the Art of the Essay: “I have no interest in first-person investigation. Personally, I’ve never found myself an interesting person.”
Maggie Nelson on the Art of Nonfiction: “It’s important to notice when the spark of magic or curiosity is there and what snuffs it out, and being around too many writers, for me, snuffs it out.”
Prose by Anne Carson, Renny Gong, Aurora Huiza, Jordy Rosenberg, Bud Smith, and Yan Lianke.
Poetry by Roque Dalton, Ishion Hutchinson, Patricia Lockwood, Mariano Melgar, Eileen Myles, Katie Peterson, and authors unknown.
Art by Talia Chetrit, Martha Diamond, and Jamian Juliano-Villani; cover by Issy Wood.
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