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Books: Literary Review Magazine – September 2024

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Literary Review – September 3, 2024: The latest issue features @claire_harman on female detectives; @WomackPhilip on childhood reading; Georgina Adam on art market scandal; @dannykellywords on ageing rockstars and @mathewparris3 on the Queen

Handbags & Handcuffs: “The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective” By Sara Lodge

‘If there is an occupation for which women are utterly unfitted, it is that of the detective,’ claimed the Manchester Weekly Times in 1888 – already behind the times, it seems, as women had been acting the part for years, albeit invisibly. They had started to feature in detective fiction too. It was studying the burgeoning market in ‘lady detective’ stories post-1860 that led Sara Lodge to wonder who the fantasy sleuths were modelled on, and why the Victorians found them so disturbing and alluring.

Forging Ahead: “Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, 1945–2000” By James Stourton

It is hard to think of a person more qualified to write this book. In addition to being an art historian, a prolific writer, a lecturer and a broadcaster, James Stourton is also a former chairman of Sotheby’s UK. He joined the auction house in 1979 and left in 2012 to become a senior fellow at the Institute of Historical Research.

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Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Sept 9, 2024

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The New Yorker (August 26, 2024): The latest issue features R. Kikuo Johnson’s “A Mother’s Work” – A glimpse into the lives of New York’s caretakers.

Do Celebrity Presidential Endorsements Matter?

It’s hard to empirically determine whether they drive voters to the polls. But they might have less measurable effects.

The Magazine for Mercenaries Enters Polite Society

Susan Katz Keating, the editor and publisher of Soldier of Fortune, discusses how she’s changing the publication and assesses the threat of political violence.

How Machines Learned to Discover Drugs

The A.I. revolution is coming to a pharmacy near you.

By Dhruv Khullar

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The New York Review Of Books – September 19, 2024

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The New York Review of Books (August 30, 2024) – The latest issue features:

The Secret Agent

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner’s fourth novel tells the story of a spy-for-hire who infiltrates the ranks of a radical French commune.

Venture-Backed Trumpism

Why have right-wing ideas found such an eager audience among tech elites during Biden’s presidency?

Succumbing to Spectacle

During the last half-century, artists, curators, and scholars have been increasingly preoccupied with the idea of spectacle and with how to embrace, critique, or co-opt the power of work that envelops and overwhelms the viewer.

Jenny Holzer: Light Line – An exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, May 17–September 29, 2024

Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle by Jonathan Crary

The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, 1917–1935 by Sjeng Scheijen

The Most Conservative Branch

Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism by Stephen Breyer

In his new book, Reading the Constitution, Stephen Breyer criticizes recent Supreme Court decisions on issues such as abortion and gun rights as the product of rigid and imperfect reasoning rather than of ideology, and he argues for a more pragmatic jurisprudence.

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Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Sept 2, 2024

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The New Yorker (August 26, 2024): The latest issue features Pascal Campion’s “The Last Rays of Summer” – Biking into the first signs of fall. By Françoise MoulyArt by Pascal Campion

Can Kamala Harris Keep Up the Excitement Through Election Day?

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At the Democratic National Convention, the sense of relief was as overwhelming as the general euphoria—but the campaign against Donald Trump has only just begun. By Jonathan Blitzer

The Death of School 10

How declining enrollment is threatening the future of American public education. By Alec MacGillis

Why Was It So Hard for the Democrats to Replace Biden?

After the President’s debate with Trump, Democratic politicians felt paralyzed. At the D.N.C., they felt giddy relief. How did they do it?

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Aug 23, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (August 21, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Angels at her table’ – C.K. Stead and Kirsty Gunn on Janet Frame’s singular voice; Pat Barker and Mark Haddon’s modern myths; Rethinking incarceration; How art comes about; Sleep science; Hypochondria and literary reputations….

A summer double of @TheTLS, featuring C. K. Stead & Kirsty Gunn on Janet Frame; @joemoransblog on sleep science; an extract from @WillEaves’s new book; @CliveSSmith on prison; Peter Kemp on Pat Barker; Praya Agarwal on hypochondria; @irinibus on literary reputations – and more pic.twitter.com/lZR4vYhavA
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) August 21, 2024

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Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – August 26, 2024

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Kamala Harris Donald Trump and their running mates ride a roller coaster.

The New Yorker (August 19, 2024): The latest issue features Barry Blitt’s “Roller Coaster” – The highs and lows of the campaigns for America’s highest office.

The Kamala Show

How Vice-President Harris’s public persona has evolved, from tough prosecutor to frozen interviewee to joyful candidate. By Vinson Cunningham

Trump’s Got Troubles

His campaign is careening, his poll numbers are slipping, and, after something of a summer lull, he is due for several confrontations in court.

Our Very Strange Search for “Sea Level”

As the oceans ebb and surge, staggering ingenuity has gone into inventing the measure. By Brooke Jarvis

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Literary Preview: n+1 Magazine – Fall 2024

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@nplusonemag (August 16, 2024): The ‘Inside Job’ issue features Pope Fiction, My AI Could Paint That, Literal Death Drive, Raven Leilani on Grief Writing; Biden – A Retrospective and A Satire by Saidiya Hartman…

n+1 Issue 48: INSIDE JOB is almost here! Featuring new writing by @DanielDenvir, Raven Leilani, @marxforcats, Saidiya Hartman, Laura Kolbe, @dnbrgr, and many more. Subscribe to get it straight from the printer: https://t.co/2hswkFxmi7 pic.twitter.com/PZWmpq6Mwh
— n+1 (@nplusonemag) August 15, 2024

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Aug 16, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (August 14, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Guy vs the Spies’ – Robert Cecil’s secret intelligence network; The new Cold War; On annihilation; What anxiety means; G.K. Chesterton’s Notting Hill…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Diarmaid MacCulloch on Tudor and Stuart espionage; @owenmatth on cold wars past and present; @TomCook24 on Shakespearean sexualities; Fiona Green on Emily Dickinson’s letters; Anna Katharina Schaffner on the Rhine; @suzifeay on Gayl Jones – and more pic.twitter.com/uHdRgW0dOs
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) August 14, 2024

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Los Angeles Review Of Books – Summer 2024

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LA Review of Books (August 13, 2024) – The latest issue, No. 42, features Gossip. The editors start a group chat on group chats, inviting Daniel Lavery, Summer Kim Lee, Whitney Mallett, Natasha Stagg, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Tal Rosenberg, Sophie Kemp, Hillary Brenhouse, Sophia Stewart, and Jamie Hood;

Zoe Mendelson puts a dollar sign and a public spin on the phrase “daddy issues” in an online-only exclusive;

Rhian Sasseen swipes right on behalf of a fictional porn addict;

Francesca Peacock roots through the archives for a deeper understanding of scandal and speech;

Ruth Madievsky closes the gate on her college rumor mill;

and Emmeline Clein recounts an “American Icarus story” spelled out in diet pills and rhinestones.

Gossip as a Literary Genre, or Gossip as “L’Écriture feminine”?

Francesca Peacock roots through the archives for a deeper understanding of scandal and speech in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”