Tag Archives: Literary Magazines
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – Sept 19, 2022
Malika Favre’s “Figurehead”
Queen Elizabeth II’s seven-decade reign has come to an end.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by Malika Favre
Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday, at the age of ninety-six. During her seventy-year-long reign, the Queen presided over the dissolution of the British Empire. She was there for the creation of the European Union—and for Brexit. She was there for Churchill, for Thatcher, and, just last Tuesday, she was there to shake hands with the incoming Conservative Prime Minister, Liz Truss. On the cover of the September 19th issue, the artist Malika Favre, who lived in London for sixteen years, captures the indelible association between Britain and its longtime monarch.
Previews: BOOKFORUM Magazine – Sep/Oct 2022
Bookforum Magazine – SEP/OCT/NOV 2022
Jane’s World
MOIRA DONEGAN RECONSIDERS A PRE-ROE ABORTION SERVICE IN A POST-ROE ERA
Meditations in an Emergency
LUCY SANTE ON EMMANUEL CARRÈRE’S BOOK OF MEDITATION AND MENTAL BREAKDOWN
Liz Kid
SARAH JAFFE interviews Namwali Serpell
CRITICS AND NOVELISTS on what they’ve been reading
BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on this season’s notable art books
ERIN SOMERS on fangirls
Cover: New York Review Of Books – Sept 22, 2022
Outdoing Reality
The absurd incursions of the real into the intelligent life of the imagination are central to the Afghan American writer Jamil Jan Kochai’s fiction.
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai
Xanadu’s Architect
Despite designing over seven hundred buildings, the pioneering female architect Julia Morgan is now best known for a single, extremely eccentric commission: San Simeon, the estate of the legendary newspaper proprietor William Randolph Hearst.
Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect by Victoria Kastner, with photography by Alexander Vertikoff
Julia Morgan: The Road to San Simeon: Visionary Architect of the California Renaissance by Gordon L. Fuglie, Jeffrey Tilman, Karen McNeill, Johanna Kahn, Elizabeth McMillian, Kirby William Brown, and Victoria Kastner
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – Sept 5, 2022
J. J. Sempé’s “Morning Music”
The French artist’s widow describes Sempé’s decades-long relationship with the magazine and his deep appreciation for its spirit, its staff, and its readers. By Françoise Mouly, Art by J. J. Sempé
Justice Alito’s Crusade Against a Secular America Isn’t Over
He’s had win after win—including overturning Roe v. Wade—yet seems more and more aggrieved. What drives his anger?
Cover: London Review Of Books – September 8, 2022
Arianne Shahvisi – ‘Sex in the Brain’
Jon Day on Hoardiculture
Colin Burrow: Quote Me!
Helen Thaventhiran: T.S. Eliot’s Alibis
Stefan Collini on the Huxley Inheritance
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – August 29, 2022
Anita Kunz’s “No Photos, Please!”
The artist discusses the enduring allure of the “Mona Lisa,” the puzzle of celebrity, and which famous people she would invite to dinner.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by Anita Kunz
The Age of Instagram Face
How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.
What Bob Dylan Wanted at Twenty-three
A portrait of the artist trying to move past “finger-pointing” songs, and finding a new voice in the process.
By Nat Hentoff
Previews: Times Literary Supplement – Aug 19, 2022
The summer double issue of The Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS , featuring @YsendaMG on the British abroad; @questingvole on Roald Dahl; poems by John Fuller and Simon Armitage (both titled ‘The Repair Shop’); @RebeccaSpang on cryptocurrencies; @Skye_Cleary on love – and much more
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – August 22, 2022
Nicole Rifkin’s “Sun-Dappled”
The artist on her creative process and finding inspiration among artistic friends. By Françoise Mouly, Art by Nicole Rifkin
Africa’s Cold Rush and the Promise of Refrigeration
For the developing world, refrigeration is growth. In Rwanda, it could spark an economic transformation.
Preview: Times Literary Supplement – Aug 12, 2022
Shared intelligence
How British and American secret services have collaborated
Contemporary philosophy|Book Review
The truth is out there
Do different perspectives lead to scientific progress?
Natural history|Book Review
If we only had eyes to see
The extraordinary variety of animals’ sensory worlds
Diaries|Book Review
Monks and bones
Dora Wordsworth’s journal of her father’s German tour
Boomers Daily 