THE WALRUS MAGAZINE (June 10, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Summer Reading’…
by Soraya Amiri
Afghans worry their children are doomed under new curriculum enforced at gunpoint
The culture war’s favourite prophet can’t finish a straight thoughtby Luke Savage
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Haruka Aoki’s “Nothing to See” – It’s good to be a cat. By Françoise Mouly Art by Haruka Aoki
A Cold War-era report is a reminder of how long suspicion has trailed people of Chinese descent in the U.S. By Michael Luo
New Zealand’s ex-Prime Minister, an anti-Trump icon during COVID, revisited her impoverished New York days, when she slept on a couch and loitered at the Strand. By Andrew Marantz
Tam O’Shaughnessy came out as Sally Ride’s partner of twenty-seven years when she wrote of the relationship in Ride’s obituary. By Michael Schulman
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (June 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘University Press Issue’…
A new book illuminates how freedom became associated with choice and questions whether that has been a good thing—for women in particular.
The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life by Sophia Rosenfeld
Two books look closely at both the limitations and the possibilities of the art of literary translation.
The Philosophy of Translation by Damion Searls
Speaking in Tongues by J.M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos
The surprising power of placebos demonstrates how the mind influences both the experience of ill health and the evolution of illness.
Placebos by Kathryn T. Hall
The Power of Placebos: How the Science of Placebos and Nocebos Can Improve Health Care by Jeremy Howick
By James Bloodworth
By Martin Ivens
Can the world’s dominant currency survive Donald Trump?
What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (May 8, 2025): The latest issue features…
What caused Venezuela’s collapse, and who is responsible? A recent memoir tells the story as so many families have lived it.
Motherland: The Disintegration of a Family in a Collapsed Venezuela by Paula Ramón, with translations by Julia Sanches and Jennifer Shyue
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela by William Neuman
The detailed information gathered by the French curator Rose Valland about the Nazis’ looting of artworks made it possible for the Allies to recover tens of thousands of them after World War II.
The Art Front: The Defense of French Collections, 1939–1945 by Rose Valland, translated from the French by Ophélie Jouan, with a foreword by Robert M. Edsel
An electoral coalition of the conspiracy cultures of both the Christian right and the countercultural left helped bring Donald Trump back to power, and now pseudoscience and paranoia are in the ascendant.
Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker
Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists and the New Order in Wellness by Stewart Home
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (May 7, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Other America’ – The Hispanic Achievement…
Why Anglo-American colonialism has no claim to moral superiority
The former editor of Vanity Fair looks back on an era of excess
Fantastic gloomth: Victor Hugo the artist
LITERARY REVIEW (May 1, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Mad About Diana’…
THE EUROPEAN REVIEW OF BOOKS (May 1, 2025): The latest issue features …Around the world in strawberry red. Schengen’s pseudo-borderless « Europe ». A day in Minsk & an eternity at the border. A trip through Syria’s now-uninhabited terror apparatus (archivists needed). Cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, agricultural-novelists in Switzerland & France, tree-huggers in The Hague…
Our first piece from Issue Eight, out from behind the paywall! « It’s best to go into Schengen’s history unshocked by contradiction. by George Blaustein
Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border. Paula Domingo Pasarin
Two novelists (one Swiss, one Spanish) sign up for agricultural jobs. Tania Roettger
A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities. by Karim Kattan
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