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THE NEW YORK TIMES – THURSDAY, NOV. 20, 2025

Holiday Hiring Slows, Frustrating Job Seekers

Retailers are adding fewer of the seasonal roles that many Americans rely on to make ends meet.

A Family Affair: Lutnick’s Sons Cash In on an A.I. Deal Frenzy

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them.

Trump Signs Bill to Release Epstein Files, but Loopholes Remain

President Trump sought credit for the legislation, despite his pressure to kill it. The bill’s exceptions could mean much of it would stay confidential.

Trump and Mamdani Will Meet at White House on Friday

Move Over, Netflix: Ukraine’s Corruption Investigators Bring the Drama

The country’s anti-graft agencies have taken a cinematic approach to revealing a scandal that has touched President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inner circle.

THE NEW YORK TIMES – WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19, 2025

‘Really Good Friends’: Trump Lauds Saudi Leader During Lavish Visit

It was a chummy scene that underscored President Trump’s desire to maintain strong relations with Saudi Arabia during a tumultuous period in the Middle East.

Once a Pariah, Saudi Prince Resets U.S. Relations on His Own Terms

Nvidia’s Chips Become a Bargaining Tool as Trump and Its Chief Get Close

Over the last 10 months, President Trump has become close with Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, as the company’s chips have become a tool in trade talks.

Nvidia and Walmart Could Ease Wall St.’s Jitters. Or Make Them Worse.

After four consecutive down days, the stock market is looking increasingly queasy. Earnings reports from Nvidia, Walmart and Target could hint at what’s ahead.

Comey’s Lawyers Head to Court to Argue Vindictive Prosecution by Trump

James B. Comey’s lawyers are expected to argue that the Justice Department effectively allowed itself to be taken captive by the president’s desire for political revenge.

THE NEW YORK TIMES – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2025

Homeland Security Department Shifts Its Focus to Deportations

Under President Trump, an agency created to keep Americans safe has so shifted its focus to illegal immigration that other parts of its mission are suffering.

U.S. Border Patrol Launches Operation in Charlotte, N.C.

Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York

Jeffrey Epstein’s recently released documents are steeped in a clubby world that is all but gone.

Women Toiling in India’s Insufferable Heat Face Mounting Toll on Health

Prolonged exposure to hot weather can hinder people’s ability to lead safe and productive lives, experts say.

What to Know About Chile’s Election on Sunday

Polls show right-wing candidates drawing the most support, but a recent compulsory voting law could bring a surge of new voters, adding uncertainty.

The New Criterion – December 2025 Preview

THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features

Art: a special section

My Grandma Moses by Jane Kallir

America beautiful by James Panero

Leiden lights by Karen Wilkin

Behind the scenes by Michele H. Bogart

The consonant Cushing by Alexandra Cushing Howard

A bull with his own china shop by Eric Gibson

Mittel march by Peter Pennoyer

The unsentimental builder by Michael J. Lewis

The mage of Torino by Philip Rylands

“Architecture unshackled” by Harry Adams

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – NOVEMBER 20, 2025 PREVIEW

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features ‘Will We Still Google It?’; Syntax of Slavery and Habsburg Legacies…

Will we still google it?

I’m starting to feel some pre-emptive nostalgia when I do a Google search. Yes, it’s true, search can sometimes take you to places you don’t want to go. But at least a ‘classical’ search engine like Google in the 2000s and 2010s took you outside itself, and perhaps implicitly prompted you to evaluate critically what you found there. by Donald MacKenzie

Syntax of Slavery

Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was being executed after a battle, or made a human sacrifice, but the institution was taken for granted until the growth of abolitionism in the later 18th century. Liverpool could hardly be an exception when the slave trade was so embedded in its economy.  By John Kerrigan

Habsburg Legacies

We still live in the long shadow of Habsburg disintegration. In addition to the lingering legacy of 19th-century state formations, European and global politics are shaken by continuing reverberations in states that have disappeared from Europe since 1990: Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, the GDR and, above all, the Soviet Union. By Holly Case

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – NOVEMBER 14, 2025

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Roy Foster on Seamus Heaney’s miraculous poems.

Blazing graft

Charting Seamus Heaney’s Wordsworthian journey By Roy Foster

What the public wants?

Writing novels by AI – and committee By Gordon Fraser

Books of the Year 2025

Our contributors choose their favourites

Touching the void

Simone Weil’s ethical life class By A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone

LITERARY REVIEW – NOVEMBER 2025

LITERARY REVIEW : The latest issue features Jeremy Noel-Tod on Seamus Heaney * Kathryn Murphy on Vermeer * Kirsten Tambling on two 18th-century artists * Sophie Oliver on Katherine Mansfield * Lucy Lethbridge on reading * Tom Shippey on the first king of England * Daniel Rey on Christopher Columbus * Nigel Jones on U-boats * Richard Vinen on the Second World War * John Phipps on John le Carré * Julian Baggini on effective altruism 

The Pen & the Spade

The Poems of Seamus Heaney By Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis (edd.)

Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found By Andrew Graham-Dixon

A woman stands, oblivious to our gaze, absorbed entirely in her activity – reading, pouring, weighing, holding out her pearls. A window to the left admits a radiance, which falls variously on the common stuff the room contains. The light enters as an absolute blank, but infuses colour as it illuminates the scene. 

Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life By Gerri Kimber

The rush to tell the story of Katherine Mansfield’s short, fascinating life began as soon as she died. Her husband, John Middleton Murry, a gifted editor, notoriously turned the publication of her writing into an industry. 

The Hedgehog Review – Fall 2025 Preview

“The Character of Place” and “A Cultural Revolution on the Right”

THE HEDGEHOG REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘The Character of Place’ and ‘A Cultural Revolution on the Right’.

“The Character of Place” and “A Cultural Revolution on the Right”

Double Theme: “The Culture of Place” and “A Cultural Revolution on the Right”

Thematic: The Character of Place

Mourning and Melancholia in Las Vegas

A Tale of Two College Towns

My Charlottesville

Ethel Road Elementary

Made in Allentown

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – OCTOBER 31, 2025 PREVIEW

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Extinction rebellion’ – How Tennyson speaks to our fears.

Collision course

The troubled history of US-China relations By Katie Stallard

Playing a game to tell the truth

Iris Murdoch’s unseen poetry, transcribed for the first time By Miles Leeson

The Kraken wakes

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory By Angela Leighton

Winter is coming!

Tales of the uncanny from a master of ambiguity By Joyce Carol Oates

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – NOVEMBER 20, 2025

Table of Contents - November 20, 2025 | The New York Review of Books

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Fintan O’Toole on Kamala’s pointless campaign memoir, Jonathan Lethem on One Battle After Another, Anne Diebel on the trials of infertility, Colin B. Bailey on Watteau’s sad clowns, Linda Kinstler on the invention of sovereign states, Langdon Hammer on James Schuyler’s shimmering poetry, Samuel Stein on NIMBYs and YIMBYs, Miranda Seymour on Frankenstein’s mother, Adam Shatz on Alice Coltrane, a poem by Rae Armantrout, and much more.

The Lingering Delusion

107 Days by Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris’s memoir 107 Days succeeds at least in distilling the evasions and weaknesses of the modern Democratic Party.

Falling Off the Map

The Life and Death of States:  Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty by Natasha Wheatley

How States Die: Membership and Survival in the International System by Douglas Lemke

World War I set the stage a century ago for new ways of thinking about where states come from and what happens when they disappear.