Los Angeles Review Of Books – Winter 2024-2025
Tag Archives: Literary Magazines
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’
Lines of Insight
“Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute” By Nicholas Fox Weber
Will Someone Think of the Barristers?
“Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe” By John Callanan
Raising the Flag of Freedom
“Predator of the Seas: A History of the Slaveship That Fought for Emancipation” By Stephen Taylor
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Dec. 9, 2024
Stopping the Press
After spending years painting the media as the “enemy of the people,” Donald Trump is ready to intensify his battle against the journalists who cover him. By David Remnick
R.F.K., Jr., Wants to Eliminate Fluoridated Water. He Used to Bottle and Sell It
Donald Trump’s nominee to lead H.H.S. once started a bottled-water line, Keeper Springs. What was in it? By Charles Bethea
On the Block: Where Jerry Lewis and Buddy Hackett Once Schvitzed
The tummlers have moved on, but the distinctive Friars Club building, in midtown, is going to the highest bidder. By Bruce Handy
The New York Review Of Books – December 19, 2024
Israel’s Revenge: An Interview with Rashid Khalidi
The scholar of Palestinian history talks about what has and has not surprised him about the world‘s response to Israel‘s assault on Gaza.
Under the Spanish Volcano
A recent exhibition at the Prado showcased artists engaging with the ferment and conflict of turn-of-the-century Spain.
‘The Look of Shame’
The French director Catherine Breillat has spent her career insisting on women’s agency and reclaiming taboo desires—sometimes with troubling implications.
London Review Of Books – December 5, 2024 Preview
Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War by Perry Anderson.
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie
Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Thistle and the Rose: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Tudor by Linda Porter
Jessica Olin
The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis: ‘Time and Western Man’ edited by Paul Edwards
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Nov. 29, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (November 27, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Mutti Knows Best?’ – Angela Merkel’s triumph and tragedy; Gaughin’s uncensored thoughts; Gladiator II; C.S. Lewis’s Oxford and “The Magic Mountain” at 100…
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Dec. 2, 2024
The Fundamental Problem with R.F.K., Jr.,’s Nomination to H.H.S.
Kennedy has many bad ideas. Yet the irony of our political moment is that his more reasonable positions are the ones that could sink his candidacy. By Dhruv Khullar
How Old Age Was Reborn
“The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as continued youth twist the dial too far? By Daniel Immerwahr
How to Make Fuel (or Booze) from Thin Air
Air Company, a startup that has used water and carbon dioxide to make vodka and to power automobiles, taste-tests its product and discusses getting Elon Musk’s business. By Adam Iscoe
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Nov. 22, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (November 20, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Uncommon Reader’ – Virginia Woolf in literary tradition..
What we want from her books
Virginia Woolf as reader, writer and literary inspiration By Sophie Oliver
A star is torn
The unravelling of Vivien Leigh’s marriage amid her mental health breakdown By Vanessa Curtis
Ignorant armies
History as an ideological battleground By Niall Ferguson
Bergson’s boom and bust
How the world’s most famous thinker fell out of fashion By Mark Sinclair
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