LITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA: The latest issue features…
On the connection between books and home Kyle Wyatt
Does healing the world mean abandoning capitalism? Darrell Varga
Where non-sovereign nations dwell George Anderson
Jackie Robinson’s season in Montreal David Marks Shribman
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Lennart Gäbel’s “Showstopper” – Commuter couture.
A quarter century after the attacks, the grief, wars, and political furies of their aftermath still shape American life. By Jill Lepore
The culture wars have come for lingerie as the right, once the advocates of promise rings and purity culture, embarks on a crusade to “Make America Hot Again.” By Jennifer Wilson
The kingdom, seeking to rebrand as a culinary juggernaut, has bankrolled new restaurants and conscripted big-name chefs. Will it succeed? By Ruby Tandoh
A coterie of advisers, planners, and architects is enabling the President’s passion project—renovating D.C. in his own image. By Antonia Hitchens
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…
By Colin Burrow
What’s the point of literary criticism? In June the University of Exeter announced plans that might make roughly a third of its English department – one of the best in the country – redundant. Other institutions, including Canterbury Christ Church University, have stopped offering English degrees altogether. Most mainstream publishers now wouldn’t dream of publishing a work of literary criticism, as they happily did in the 1970s and 1980s. Even literary biography, literary criticism’s previously marketable stepsister, no longer brings a gleam to a publisher’s eye. The grassroots of the subject are also suffering badly. Since 2000 the number of people taking A-level English literature in England has dropped by around a third, to around 36,000, with an even higher drop among male students.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Nicole Rifkin’s “Pure Gold” – We will always love you.
Dolly Parton belonged to a beloved category: the outlaw Christian, who loved Jesus and refused to hate anyone else.
Why do we love trash and hate slop? Neil Breen’s so-bad-they’re-great movies elucidate the difference.
Flash floods, triggered by a glacial collapse in the Himalayas, have killed at least five hundred people in a nation that has contributed little to climate change but is disproportionately affected by it. By Ishaan Tharoor
Even while refusing to admit legal fault, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram has accepted, for the first time, that much of its business model is unacceptable for children. By Nathaniel Lubin
The breakneck expansion of settlements in the West Bank has rendered American talk of a two-state solution increasingly irrelevant.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Diana Ejaita’s “Before the Plunge” – A moment of stillness.
The SAVE America Act is just one part of a package that includes an executive order and threats of prosecution, all in an effort to make Trump’s math work. By Amy Davidson Sorkin
In D.C. and the Dakotas, at rodeos and powwows, celebrating the country means taking in pride and disappointment and fellow-feeling. By Rachel Monroe
As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to transform themselves for a climate that they were never built to withstand. By Eric Klinenberg
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Edward Steed’s “Midnight Bloom” – The sea in full swing.
As Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s newly elected Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, put it, “People really effing hate data centers.” By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
The Chief Justice insists that his Supreme Court isn’t biased even as it keeps making dramatic leaps rightward. By Margaret Talbot
From branding irons to iris scans, the ancient business of proving who you are has never been stranger—or more lucrative. By Jill Lepore
Human-rights groups estimate that more than ten thousand Ukrainian civilians have disappeared into the Russian prison system. This is the story of one cell.
LITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA: The latest issue features…
A bit of welcome news Kyle Wyatt
From Sophocles to Danielle Smith Troy Nahumko
Where does higher education go next? Spencer Morrison
Sandford Fleming’s cables and clocks Michael Ledger-Lomas
The next move in championship chess Mark Plotkin
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…
Christopher Nolan’s $250 million action movie version of Homer’s ancient Greek poem is an entertaining way to hide from the high temperatures for a few hours. Nolan’s trademark jumps and twists in the narrative structure are relatively easy to follow, and appropriate for The Odyssey, a narrative of tales nested in tales. My teenagers had a good time. Unlike some of Nolan’s other films, The Odyssey is not boring, thanks to the source material, which is impossible to mess up entirely. It’s a family-friendly audiovisual spectacle, like an elaborate Fourth of July fireworks display – and with about the same level of narrative and emotional depth.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Eric Drooker’s “Outside Art” – A reprieve from the city’s chaos.
Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications. By Evan Osnos
Senator Rand Paul may have approached the matter with theatrics and ill will, but Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision not to testify was a loss. By Amy Davidson Sorkin
The lawyer who showed an outer-borough striver how to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media. By Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “Repose” – Soaking up the sun. By Françoise Mouly
It’s been a tumultuous primary season, but is this the Democrats’ Tea Party moment? Or is something more pragmatic emerging? By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Gadi Eisenkot, whose view of war is shaped by the loss of his son, is, in manner and character, the anti-Bibi. By David Remnick
French theory, as taught in American classrooms, has acquired a reputation of forbidding difficulty and hauteur. A new history seeks to surface its human side. By Dayna Tortorici
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