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 24, 2024
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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – May 17, 2024
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
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
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…
The New York Times Book Review – April 21, 2024
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (April 20, 2024): The latest issue features….
Coddling Plus Devices? Unequivocal Disaster for Our Kids.
In “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt says we’re failing children — and takes a firm stand against tech.
By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary
THE ANXIOUS GENERATION: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt
Quick! Someone Get This Book a Doctor.
Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
By Molly Young
Not every workplace features a guillotine. At a book conservation lab tucked beneath the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the office guillotine might as well be a water cooler or a file cabinet for all that it fazes the staff. “We have a lot of violent equipment,” said Mindell Dubansky, who heads the Sherman Fairchild Center for Book Conservation.
How the Rich and Poor Once Saw War
In “Muse of Fire,” Michael Korda depicts the lives and passions of the soldier poets whose verse provided a view into the carnage of World War I.
Arts & Literature: Kenyon Review – Spring 2024
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – April 19, 2024
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…
The New York Times Book Review – April 14, 2024
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (April 12, 2024): The latest issue features the cold-sweat-inducing premise of the two books on our cover this week, Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War” and Sarah Scoles’s “Countdown.”
Let’s Say Someone Did Drop the Bomb. Then What?
In “Nuclear War” and “Countdown,” Annie Jacobsen and Sarah Scoles talk to the people whose job it is to prepare for atomic conflict.
The Culture Warriors Are Coming for You Smart People
In Lionel Shriver’s new novel, judging intelligence and competence is a form of bigotry.
Doris Kearns Goodwin Wasn’t Competing With Her Husband
Richard Goodwin, an adviser to presidents, “was more interested in shaping history,” she says, “and I in figuring out how history was shaped.” Their bond is at the heart of her new book, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s.”
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