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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 20, 2025 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (June 18, 2025): In this week’s TLS, Mary Beard and Margaret Drabble are not quite getting away from it all this summer. For our summer books selection, they have picked a brace of biographies of Labour prime ministers past and present. Along with Daniel Mendelsohn’s recent translation of the Odyssey, our Classics editor chooses Alan Johnson’s biography of Harold Wilson, her mother’s favourite politician. By Martin Ivens

Summer books 2025

Twenty-four TLS writers share their summer reading

Young and damned

Three teen-centric novels arrive at a time of national soul-searching

Arts & Literature, Books, Magazines, Opinion, Poetry, Reviews

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 13, 2025 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Who won the war?’ We did, say the Americans, the British and the Russians. Each nation has a long history of claiming a unique role in defeating the Axis powers and diminishing the contribution of its allies. By Martin Ivens

Friends like these

The wartime alliances that could not survive the peace By Omer Bartov

Symmetry in motion

Capers and wallpaper: a new film from Wes Anderson By Keith Miller

You’re the tops

What Americans understand by greatness By Andrew Stark

Exploring the occult

A practical and literary guide to modern magic By Russell Williams

Books, History, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

THE WALRUS MAGAZINE – JULY/AUGUST 2025

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THE WALRUS MAGAZINE (June 10, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Summer Reading’…

The Taliban Are Turning Boys’ Schools into Jihadist Training Grounds

by Soraya Amiri

Afghans worry their children are doomed under new curriculum enforced at gunpoint

I’ve Visited Guantánamo 28 Times as a Reporter. It Still Defies Belief

by Michelle Shephard

Is Jordan Peterson Just Making It Up as He Goes?

The culture war’s favourite prophet can’t finish a straight thoughtby Luke Savage

Arts & Literature, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 16, 2025 PREVIEW

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A cat sits on a table and knocks over a glass of wine.

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

The Victims of the Trump Administration’s China-Bashing

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

Jacinda Ardern’s Overseas Experience

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

A First Kiss from America’s First Woman in Space

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

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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – JUNE 26, 2025

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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (June 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘University Press Issue’…

My Freedom, My Choice

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

Translation’s Drift

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

What Do You Expect?

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

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LITERARY REVIEW JUNE 2025

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LITERARY REVIEW (June 2, 2025): The latest issue features ‘ A.C. Benson Unleashed; Into the Manosphere; Yours, Virginia Woolf; Passions of Gwen John and Apple’s Dangerous Deal…

Land of Dopes & Tories – The Benson Diaries: Selections from the Diary of Arthur Christopher Benson

To the Postbox – The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf

Guys & Trolls – Lost Boys: A Personal Journey Through the Manosphere

By James Bloodworth

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – MAY 30, 2025 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (May 28, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Their dollar, our problem’ – America’s crumbling financial empire…

“The dollar plays a similar role to that of the English language in global commerce”, writes Edward Chancellor in his lead review of three books devoted to American financial supremacy. “Both enjoy network effects: the more they are used, the more others are obliged to use them.”

By Martin Ivens

King Dollar’s shaky throne and fall

Can the world’s dominant currency survive Donald Trump?

By Edward Chancellor

‘Literature is the antidote to numbness’

What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the

Arts & Literature, Books, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – JUNE 5, 2025 PREVIEW

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LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (May 28, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Leopold’s Legacy’; Politics of Resentment and Murder Most Delicious…

Daniel Trilling

Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilisation by Richard Seymour

Letters

Galen Strawson, Rachel Hammersley, Colin McArthur, Jeremy Whiteley, Richard Davenport-Hines, Terry Hanstock, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, George Anderson, Koldo Casla, Martin Rose

Ed Kiely

Short Cuts: University Finances

Susan Pedersen

Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Neal Ascherson

A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis by Norman Lewis, introduced and selected by John Hatt

Jeremy Harding

Paths to Restitution

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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – MAY 29, 2025

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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (May 8, 2025): The latest issue features…

‘There’s Nothing for Me Here’

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 Spy in the Jeu de Paume

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

Doing Their Own Research

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