TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (January 22, 2025): The latest issue features ‘An Individual Talent’ – T.S. Eliot’s Collected Prose…
Eliot’s prose writings in one chronological sweep
Why we should listen to those with opposing views
By Carol Tavris
How foreign money has transformed English football
By Mike Jakeman
The loss of civic space
By Ian Sansom
THE NEW CRITERION (January 19, 2025): The latest issue features…
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (January 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Hipster Grifter’…
In “You’ll Never Believe Me,” Kari Ferrell details going from internet notoriety to self-knowledge in a captivating, sharp and very funny memoir.
With a ban looming, publishers are hoping to pivot to new platforms, but readers fear their community of book lovers will never be the same.
Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic objects in the universe.
His new novel is titled after Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons,” he says, “given the theme of incomprehension between generations in that book.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (January 18, 2025): The The 1.19.25 Issue features Jennifer Kahn on chronic pain; Moises Velasquez-Manoff on raw milk; Alia Malek on Syrians in Turkey; and more.
As many as two billion people suffer from it — including me. Can science finally bring us relief?
After developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do — and still don’t — understand about the disease. Here is what I learned.By Jennifer Kahn
Despite the serious risks of drinking it, a growing movement — including the potential health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — claims it has benefits. Should we take them more seriously?By Moises Velasquez-Manoff
With the Assad regime out of power, millions weigh the decision to go back to their war-torn country.By Alia Malek
BARRON’S MAGAZINE (January 18, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Picks’…
Stocks are pricey—but there are values to be had. Learn more about our panelists’ picks in this week’s Roundtable installment.
If the insurance industry stops writing policies for California homes, it will ultimately hit the mortgage industry.
Premiums have been rising sharply in recent years. The L.A. disaster will make matters worse.
Skimpier benefits are coming as insurers look for cost savings. What to know if you want to switch plans.
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (Janaury 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Reagan’s Make-Believe’….
Reagan: His Life and Legend
by Max Boot.
On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy
by Simon Critchley.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (January 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Bloomsbury treasures’ – Newly discovered poems and photographs…
John Trowsdale Yale Univ. Press (2024)
To understand the body, “we might picture the heart as a pump, the brain as a kind of computer, the lungs as bellows, the kidney as filters”. But what about the immune system — asks immunologist John Trowsdale in his engaging analysis. It has no straightforward analogy, operating simultaneously as an antiviral software, a surveillance camera, a weapons system and a way to share resources. The system is “unobtrusive yet extensive, nowhere and everywhere, redundant yet essential, powerful yet remote”.
Rowan Jacobsen Bloomsbury (2024)
When residue inside decorative pots from ancient Mexico was analysed, it yielded traces of cacao — early evidence of cocoa consumption. The Spanish word chocolate might have been influenced by the Nahuatl (Aztec) cacahuatl, or cacao water. Journalist Rowan Jacobsen’s appealing book explores wild chocolate’s history as he travels through Central and South America, meeting chocolate makers, activists and Indigenous leaders who revive the bean’s variety in taste and prestige, lost during its modern industrial manufacture.
Eds Silvia Ferrara et al. Routledge (2024)
The logo of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games was a figure with a red dot ‘head’, blue ‘body’ and single, straight green ‘leg’ — adapted from the Chinese character zhi, meaning ‘birth, life’, ‘arrival’ and ‘achievement’. It is one of a huge variety of “talking images” in a collection edited by three scholars interested in writing. Images range from Palaeolithic symbols and ancient Mesopotamian pictograms to modern Chinese calligraphy and Indian comics. The book traces links between images, marks, language and writing.
Stéphane Douady et al. Princeton Univ. Press (2024)
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (January 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘A Deal With The Devil’ – A.N. Wilson’s new biography of Goethe approaches its subject through his masterpiece and life’s work, the verse drama “Faust”.
Our columnist on the month’s most exciting releases.
The scion siblings at the center of Sara Sligar’s Gothic thriller “Vantage Point” try desperately to outrun the calamity that is their inheritance.
Samrat Upadhyay’s new novel, “Darkmotherland,” is a sprawling epic in which a natural disaster gives way to an authoritarian takeover.
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