To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans
By Michael Wood
London Review Of Books – October 24, 2024 Preview
Tag Archives: Literary Magazines
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Oct. 18, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (October 16, 2024): The latest issue features ‘A world away from K-pop -The Nobel laureate Han Kang, Sylvia Plath’s final say; Alan Hollinghurst gets Brexit done; The dictotor’s treadmill; Keeping the Warburg weird…
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine-October 21, 2024
How Alarmed Should We Be If Trump Wins Again?
Even many of the ex-President’s opponents haven’t grasped the scale of the man’s villainy. By Adam Gopnik
What the Polls Really Say About Black Men’s Support for Kamala Harris
After the 2016 election, progressives blamed white women for Hillary Clinton’s loss. This year, Black men have come under special scrutiny. By Jelani Cobb
Alexei Navalny’s Prison Diaries
The Russian opposition leader’s account of his last years and his admonition to his country and the world. By Alexei Navalny
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Oct. 11, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (October 9, 2024): The latest issue features ‘This English House’ – W.H. Auden’s changing view of home by Seamus Perry…
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine-October 14, 2024
Trump’s Dangerous Immigration Obsession
The daily stream of racism and mendacity has had a numbing effect. But the question of what Trump might actually do is a prospect that voters cannot afford to ignore. By Jonathan Blitzer
Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster
From crypto to A.I., the tech sector is pouring millions into super PACS that intimidate politicians into supporting its agenda. By Charles Duhigg
Sleep Essential for Health
Donald Trump is lying next to you in the bed, wearing snug cotton pajamas printed to look like his signature blue suit. You want to tell him a few things you think he ought to know, but his fake snoring drowns you out. By Ian Frazier
Books: Literary Review Magazine – October 2024
Literary Review – October 2, 2024: The latest issue features Richard Vinen on Churchill; @wendymoore99 on Marie Curie; Ritchie Robertson on Augustus the Strong; @robinsimonbaj on British art and @tomlamont on James Salter
Croquet & Conspiracy- “Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm” By Katherine Carter
‘It’s not a bad life for the leaders of the British bourgeoisie! There’s plenty for them to protect in their capitalist system!’ So wrote Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador in London, after his first visit to Winston Churchill’s country house at Chartwell in Kent. He described the house thus: ‘A wonderful place! Eighty-four acres of land … all clothed in a truly English dark-blue haze.’
All for the Thrill of the Chase – “Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco” By Tim Blanning
Frederick Augustus (1670–1733), elector of Saxony and king of Poland, owed his sobriquet ‘the Strong’ to such feats as crushing a tin plate in his hand (mentioned by Rilke in the ‘Fifth Duino Elegy’) and to his vigorous sex life. Contemporaries credited him with fathering 354 illegitimate children; Tim Blanning soberly reduces the number to eight. This biography is concerned not with court gossip, however, but with Augustus’s political career and cultural achievements. Blanning celebrates Augustus as the virtual creator of the once-magnificent city of Dresden, where the kings of Saxony resided, and hence, surprisingly, as ‘a great artist, arguably the greatest of his age’.
London Review Of Books – October 10, 2024 Preview
John Kerrigan
England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland by Lorna Hutson
A.E. Stallings
Poem: ‘The Plum Tree’
Helen Pfeifer
The Genius of Their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni and the Lost Enlightenment by S. Frederick Starr
Katherine Harloe
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present by Oswyn Murray
David Runciman
Short Cuts: Just ask Tony
Terry Eagleton
The Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present by Fredric Jameson
James Vincent
Horny Robot Baby Voice
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Oct. 4, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (October 2, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Canon Fire’ – Emma Smith and Brian Vickers on authorship in the golden age of theatre…
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – October 7, 2024
Kamala Harris for President
The Vice-President has displayed the basic values and political skills that would enable her to help end, once and for all, a poisonous era defined by Donald Trump. By The Editors
Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis?
Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life online for answers. By Andrew Solomon
Is a Chat with a Bot a Conversation?
An artificial voice has long been a dream of tinkerers and technologists. Now that A.I. can talk, though, we may forget who we’re talking to.
By Jill Lepore
The New York Review Of Books – October 17, 2024
‘The Death of Some Ideal’
The Irish novelist Anne Enright writes with great prowess and wit about women who make a virtue of getting on with things.
The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright
The Fact Man
At the heart of Daniel Defoe’s fictional world is a feeling for change, of the mutability and shiftiness of modern life and the people who thrive in it.
The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe edited by Nicholas Seager and J.A. Downie
The Problems with Polls
Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.
Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them by G. Elliott Morris
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