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Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Dec. 9, 2024

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The Knicks players outside Madison Square Garden.

The New Yorker (December 2, 2024): The latest issue features John Cuneo’s “Garden Party” – The Knicks are making a joyful comeback.

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

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The New York Review Of Books – December 19, 2024

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Table of Contents - December 19, 2024 | The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (November 28, 2024) – The latest issue features ‘The Evils of Factory Farming’…

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.

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London Review Of Books – December 5, 2024 Preview

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London Review of Books (LRB) – November 28 , 2024: The latest issue features ‘The Murmur of Engines’ by Christopher Clark

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

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Nov. 29, 2024

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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…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @MElizabethLowry on Gaugin; @fromTGA on Angela Merkel’s memoirs; @RichardEvans36 on Weimar Germany; Karolina Watroba on The Magic Mountain at 100; @wmarybeard on Gladiator II; @alexleissle on Christian Kracht; Alice Albinia on Orkney – and more pic.twitter.com/h3IPEXH2C8
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) November 27, 2024

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Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Dec. 2, 2024

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A young person works on a farmhouse as turkeys wearing Groucho goggles look on.

The New Yorker (November24, 2024): The latest issue features Tom Toro’s “Incognito” – Putting on a friendly face.

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

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Nov. 22, 2024

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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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Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Nov. 18, 2024

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A view of the Manhattan Bridge seen through a window above a desk in Brooklyn.

The New Yorker (November 18, 2024): The latest issue features Javier Mariscal’s “Desk with a View” – Sudden glimpses of urban artistry.

Javier Mariscal’s “Desk with a View”

Sudden glimpses of urban artistry. By Françoise MoulyArt by Javier Mariscal

Why N.S.A. Rules Say No to Smartphones, No to Texting, Yes to Podcasts

The agency, known for listening, is getting into the (extremely vetted) talking game, with “No Such Podcast.”

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The New York Review Of Books – December 5, 2024

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The New York Review of Books (November 14, 2024) – The latest issue features The Second Coming – Disinhibition will be the order of the day in Donald Trump’s America.

The Second Coming

Disinhibition will be the order of the day in Donald Trump’s America. By Erin Maglaque

Soundscapes of the Silenced

In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification. Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.

“A Veil of Silence: Women and Sound in Renaissance Italy” by Julia Rombough

In Search of Fullness

In his new book, the philosopher Charles Taylor looks at modern poetry as a unique record of spiritual experience in a secular age.

“Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment” by Charles Taylor

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London Review Of Books – November 21, 2024 Preview

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London Review of Books (LRB) – November 14 , 2024: The latest issue features ‘The Democrats’ Defeat’….

The Democrats’ Defeat

By Adam Tooze

‘Being the party of normality has its appeal, but it reinforces precisely the wrong instinct. The polycrisis that is unfolding demands not a return to the status quo but urgent, progressive answers both at home and abroad. To formulate and articulate those, the Democrats need politicians, not algorithms. They need personalities capable of responding to the profound questions facing contemporary America.’

Ukraine’s Battle Fatigue

James Meek

‘Would the army as a whole rise up against a government that made territorial concessions to Russia? Perhaps. But the more widely the recruiters spread their net, the more the army reflects a society that is starting to talk openly, if bitterly, about swapping land for peace.’