Tag Archives: Book Reviews

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – May 31, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (May 29, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Kafka’s Century’ – Karen Leeder, Becca Rothfeld, Gabriel Josipovici, Michael Hofmann et al…; Colm Toibin returns to Brooklyn; India under Modi; A Jim Crow insane asylum and Literary cricket…

The New Criterion – June 2024 Arts/Culture Preview

The New Criterion – The June 2024 issue features:

Protecting America’s promise

by Ronald S. Lauder

On combating anti-Semitism & anti-Americanism.

All the rage

by Victor Davis Hanson

On White Rural Rage by Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman.

The masterpiece of our time

by Gary Saul Morson

On The Gulag Archipelago at fifty.

Building Palm Beach

by Benjamin Riley

On the town’s history & architecture.

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – May 24, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (May 22, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Other Europe’ – Defining a Continent; An English Country Garden; The church of Peter Ackroyd and Zombie apocalypse…

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – May 17, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (May 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The future of sex?’ – Dating apps, virtual encounters and polyamory; An American Life; Ripley’s new game; Gurus and primal screams ….

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – May 10, 2024

Times Literary Supplement (May 8 2024): The latest issue features ‘Reverie and revolution’ – Ian Penman on Surrealism; Crime fiction gets political; Scorsese’s English masters, women pianists and more….

London Review Of Books – May 9, 2024 Preview

London Review of Books (LRB) – May , 2024: The latest issue features Julian Barnes on art and memory; @AzadehMoaveni on sexual violence in the Gaza war Rosemary Hill; @misspegler on Barbara Comyns; @malcolmgaskill on early magic and a cover by Anne Rothenstein.

James Meek: Short Cuts

Fara Dabhoiwala: HMS Wager

Sean Jacobs: Festac ’77 Revisited

Francis Gooding: At the Pompidou-Metz

Marion Turner: Medieval Polyglots

Azadeh Moaveni: Women in Wartime

Sheila Fitzpatrick: Gulag Medicine

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – May 3, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (May 1, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Making it New’ – A.E. Stallings on the innovative classicism of Anne Carson’s poetry; Salman Rushdie’s memoir of survival; Politics and performance and more…

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – April 26, 2024

Times Literary Supplement (April 24, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Mormon Conquest’ – Seth Perry on a people of the book; Is ‘green growth’ a mirage; Virginia Woolf’s rural retreat; China’s Shakespeare…

Arts & Literature: Kenyon Review – Spring 2024

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Kenyon Review – April 19, 2024: The 2024 Spring issue features Beth Bachmann’s 2023 Short Fiction Contest-winning story, chosen by judge Danielle Evans; fiction by Nick Almeida and Lauren Cassani Davis; poetry by Fatima Jafar and Marcus Wicker; and a folio of Literary Curiosities, which features work by Jennifer ChangJ. D. DebrisSummer FarahEliza GilbertChristine ImperialPhoebe Peter OathoutTega OghenechovwenMaya C. Popa, and more. The cover art is a detail of Chitra Ganesh’s City Inside Her, from the artist’s Architects of the Future portfolio.

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – April 19, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (April 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘A Heavy Reckoning’ – Shakespeare and War’; Judgment at Tokyo; Iranian women in revolt; Memoirs of a sociopath and A Chilean masterpiece…