Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS December 2, 2022 issue features Craig Raine on Lucian Freud; @NessaCarey on genetic engineering; @AnaAliciaGarza on vagrancy; @lindseyhilsum on the sacking of the Kherson Art Museum; @irinibus on gluttony; poems by @ColeHenri and Hugo Williams – and more.
World of Women confronts the limits of selling cartoon avatars on the blockchain after the crypto bubble burst.
In his “Slough House” thrillers, the screw-ups save the day—and there’s a very fine line between comedy and catastrophe.
It began as a visionary notion—that patients could die with dignity at home. Now it’s a twenty-two-billion-dollar industry plagued by exploitation.
The November 25, 2022 @TheTLS , features Olivia Laing on Kathy Acker; @emilytwrites on self-help and philosophy; @MElizabethLowry on Henry James’s golden age stories; @TobyLichtig on The Doctor; @MirandaFrance1 on Mariana Enriquez; @henryhitchings on slow journalism – and more.
Adam Shatz on the US Midterms
‘This is what Biden and his advisers are counting on: a grinding and volatile battle with a weakened Trump and his increasingly unhinged movement in 2024.’
There is no way to offset the fact that a gigantic dose of hydrocarbon wealth is being used to stage an immensely carbon-intensive spectacle, in a place that is already getting hotter faster than almost anywhere else on the planet. In the narrowing window of opportunity that remains, can we justify burning this much of our carbon budget on international football?
Act of Oblivion, the title of Robert Harris’s novel, refers to the Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity and Oblivion, introduced to the Convention Parliament in May 1660 and given royal assent on 29 August.
Literary Review of Canada – December 2022:
Thwaites could reshape the world’s coastlines. But how do you study one of the world’s most inaccessible places?
The stories we tell ourselves about the future.
For low-lying islands like Kivalina, climate change poses an existential threat.
In West Virginia, a crew of five watches over twenty-three giant turbines.
@nplusonemag Winter 2023 issue features new writing by: + Laura Preston + Victoria Lomasko + @CharoShane + Laura Kolbe + Blair McClendon (@__seab) + @nicoleklipman + Su Wu + hannah baer + @haleymlotek + Thomas Bolt + Stephen Squibb + @JudithLevine +@gabrielwinant.
This week’s @TheTLS , featuring Anna Reid on Zelensky; @pwilcken on a divided Brazil; @james_waddell on manuscript collectors; @LamornaAsh on Tammy Faye; @LinahAlsaafin on Qatar; and Peter Thonemann on how Herodotus would fare in today’s academic job market … – and more.
Life on the Rocks by Juli Berwald.
While there are many different sorts of Anthozoa, their basic unit is a polyp: an individual soft flower-animal similar to an anemone. While anemones are solitary, in corals these polyps band together to form colonies. As they grow, they build a skeleton of limestone around themselves, drawing calcium and carbon molecules from the seawater. They also draw in carbon dioxide to feed their resident algae. Over time these skeletons accumulate upwards and outwards. Corals build on their predecessors, leaving their own legacy behind them for the next generation. Reefs are, in part, the frozen exuberant bouquets of the past.
Our twenty-first-century culture of performed remorse has become a sorry spectacle.
The actress and screenwriter takes on a musical.
They dominated far longer than they were dominated, and, a new book contends, shaped the United States in profound ways.
Boomers Daily 