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DRIFT MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2025 LITERARY PREVIEW
THE DRIFT MAGAZINE (June 24, 2025): The latest issue Fifteen features It’s morning in America. Daphne, chased by Apollo, grows hooves. We live in an age of conspiracism and insincerity. Spring and summer will not follow. Staying below two degrees might be a challenge. It’d be corny to call it Orwellian. We reached the limits of what moral outrage can do. Miraculously, we still made decisions. Acting recklessly. Lining up at the barricades. The more you have, the more you have to protect. Eye contact is everything. Already, the oil field was quieter. Misogyny converts reality. All that love for objects. It sanctifies him. He wore a face that spoke of multiple divorces. She was bitter about her beauty. That’s all in an evening screening. We’re in a definitional war. Publicity beats truth. Art that risks nothing is worth nothing. A negation of the possibility of forgetting. A private fiefdom. A child on whom childhood was wasted. A game of inches. Ask a pundit or professor. There are only so many laughs to be had.
Interviews
“They’re Using Megaphones” | An Interview with Wendy Brown
“Losing Any Claim to Moral Leadership” | An Interview with Nikhil Pal Singh
“We Will Not Win on Our Own” | An Interview with Eman Abdelhadi
“Politics Is Conflictual” | An Interview with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
“All Sticks, No Carrots” | An Interview with Adam Tooze
Dispatches on the New Regime
Unified Purpose and Total Vision | Our New Department of Justice
State of Exception | National Security Governance, Then and Now
A Bureaucratic and Feminine Mind | The Right’s Misogyny Politics
Brutality and Opacity | Birthright Citizenship Under Attack
Agit-Slop | The White House’s Numbing Aesthetic
A Disaster Big Enough | Climate Policy on Life Support
Competing Moral Visions | Two Paths for Pronatalism
Easy to Exploit | Collapsing the Urban-Rural Divide
Collective Political Activity | Reclaiming the First Amendment
Anti-Anti-Rape | On the #MeToo Backlash
God-Like Confidence | Donald Trump’s Cult of Faith
Books: Literary Review – April 2025 Preview
LITERARY REVIEW (April 1, 2025): The April 2025 issue features ‘Henry James Goes West’; Russia’s Secret Wars’ Josephine Baker Uncovered; Besotted With Blake and Tale of Two America’s…
Tinker, Tailor, Sleeper, Troll
The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West By Shaun Walker
The Restless Analyst
Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age By Peter Brooks
On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays By Henry James (Edited by Michael Gorra)
Merger or Acquisition?
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America By Russell Shorto
Times Literary Supplement – March 7, 2025 Preview
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Troubled Mind’ – Oliver Sack’s personal demons…
A fresh classical sunlight
Revisiting W. H. Auden’s postwar poetry collection The Shield of Achilles By John Fuller
Awakening
The inner life of Oliver Sacks, as revealed by his letters By Andrew Scull
The New York Review Of Books – February 27, 2025
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (February 7, 2025): The latest issue features The Prophet Business…
The Prophet Business
A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present by Glenn Adamson
There have always been oracles, prophets, soothsayers, utopians, seers, or futurologists to make predictions about what will pass, and no matter how often they are wrong or discredited, humanity’s need remains.
A Daring Departure
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee
Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment – an exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, March 26–July 14, 2024, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., September 8, 2024–January 19, 2025
One hundred and fifty years after Impressionist paintings were first exhibited, it takes a certain effort to recover their original radicalism.
Rebooting the Pentagon
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff
Bringing Silicon Valley’s drive for innovation to defense contracting has been a slow process, but the war in Ukraine has led tech firms to plunge into the war business.
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Dec. 13, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (December 11, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The tragic Queen of France’ – The legend of Marie Antoinette; William Dalrymple’s Indian empire; Mary Beard – A night at the museum; The coffee house scientist; What Kindle readers want…
Los Angeles Review Of Books – Winter 2024-2025
Conversation
A Precise Excavation of the Soul: A Conversation with Hilton Als by Melissa Seley
Nonfiction
Mean Mommies: Care in Contemporary Queer Literature by Jenny Fran Davis
Our Ambassadors to the Future: Relics of—and for—ourselves by Christina Wood
The Only Girl in the World: On Madonna and ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ by Brontez Purnell
Homespun Tiara: A Profile of Model and Activist Geena Rocero by Enzo Escober
Syria’s Forgotten Island of Opposition: A report from the al-Tanf military compound by Charlie Clewis
Bedrock: On gravesites literal and not by Charley Burlock
American Blondes: Are we having more fun yet? by Arielle Gordon
Fiction
Bright by Grace Byron
Finishing Moves by Evan McGarvey
Witches of Fresno and Pigfoot by Venita Blackburn
The Good Life by Brady Brickner-Wood
The Aforementioned Journal by David Hollander
Poetry
Srdičko Bolí by Claressinka Anderson
Has Your Spirit Dried Up? by emet ezell
I Haven’t Heard My Brother’s Voice in Ten Years by Douglas Manuel
Montauk by Connie Voisine
Straining for the Noise by Jenny Xie
Art
Lida Abdul
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Dec. 16, 2024
President Emmanuel Macron Has Plunged France into Chaos
Lawmakers have toppled the government for the first time since 1962. How did we get here? By Lauren Collins
What Will Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Accomplish with Doge?
Two political newcomers have arrived to slash big government, but so far the project seems less revolutionary than advertised.
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Dec. 6, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (December 4, 2024): The latest issue features ‘HIs Other Country’ – The James Baldwin revival continues in the 100th anniversary year of his birth. A trickle of biographies has become a flood, and the causes for which he stood, racial equality and gay rights, speak to the times.
Knowing his name – Celebrating the centenary of James Baldwin’s birth
Bring back the big fish
Record-label scouts chase ‘strange compositions’
No sacred cows
A video game challenges the history of Argentina
By Mia Levitin
Books: Literary Review Magazine – December 2024
Literary Review – December 2, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Mandeville’s Dangerous Idea’
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