LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – APRIL 23, 2026 PREVIEW
Tag Archives: Literature
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – APRIL 17, 2026 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘The many faces of Shakespeare’….
History lessons?
China, America and the danger of war By Philip Zelikow
A man of property
Discovering exactly what Shakespeare owned By Lucy Munro
Go deeper
Blake Morrison’s guide to life writing By Joyce Carol Oates
Out of sheer intention
Writing about others as a means to write about yourself By Catherine Taylor
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – APRIL 20, 2026 PREVIEW
Trump’s Strategic and Moral Failure in Iran
From the first day of his Presidency, Trump has posed an emergency to both his country and the world. By David Remnick
The Car-Crash Conspiracy
High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy. By Patrick Radden Keefe
St. Paul Remade Human History. How Did He Do It?
New scholarship reconsiders the apostle who turned a Jewish sect into a world religion—and whose legacy remains contested two millennia later.
By Adam Gopnik
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – APRIL 13, 2026 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Christoph Niemann’s “New Horizons” – Technology and the future.
Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth’s Warped Vision of the Iran War
The two men might wish that they lived in a world where whoever dropped the most bombs got whatever he wanted. But the war has shown that this isn’t true. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Why Are People Injecting Themselves with Peptides?
Health and wellness influencers are hawking unapproved treatments on the gray market. The future of the F.D.A.—and the health of consumers—is at stake. By Dhruv Khullar
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
By Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – APRIL 23, 2026
From the Rooftops of Tehran
We in Iran own our grief, mourning all by ourselves.
Living Through the Civil War
George Templeton Strong’s diaries provide the North’s best record of daily passions and woes during its struggle against the South.
George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries edited by Geoff Wisner
‘A Vast Symphony of Stone’
In his renovation of Notre-Dame, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc projected his own Romantic vision of the Middle Ages onto the Gothic cathedral.
Viollet-le-Duc: Drawing Worlds an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York City, January 28–May 24, 2026
The Aging Class
Retirement, like so much of the American economy, is a broken system that benefits private interests and exploits the most vulnerable people.
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel
Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy by Teresa Ghilarducci, with a foreword by E. J. Dionne Jr.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – APRIL 3, 2026 PREVIEW
Cultural superpower?
An argument for ‘British is best’
The argument of Peter Watson’s hugely ambitious The British Imagination: A history of ideas from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II is that “The essential arc of British history – intellectual and creative history, just as much as political, economic and military history – is of a small, indeed tiny, country sequestered on the north-west coast of Europe that over the centuries would forge the largest and most unlikely empire the world has seen”. It may seem odd to be reading this in the present depressed state of the nation, although Watson stresses from the outset that the concept of “the British imagination” embraces its hospitality to foreign influences and eventually to the power of a wider “Anglosphere”.
English virtue battles the pagan
The genesis of Far from the Madding Crowd
The texture of etcetera
What smartphones can’t record
Freeing Thomas Mann
Modern English translations that do justice to the work
LITERARY REVIEW MAGAZINE – APRIL 2026 PREVIEW
LITERARY REVIEW : The latest issue features Piers Brendon on Jan Morris * Richard Norton-Taylor on the Cambridge Five * Jane O’Grady on Wittgenstein * Wendy Holden on royal fashion * Martin Vander Weyer on Patrick Radden Keefe * Jeremy Treglown on Shakespeare in translation….
Jan Morris: A Life By Sara Wheeler
The subject of this excellent biography wished to be remembered as Jan ‘Empire’ Morris, author of the great imperial trilogy Pax Britannica, but she correctly predicted that the valedictory headlines would read ‘Sex Change Author Dies’. As James Morris, he had won early fame as the Times reporter who broke the news of the conquest of Everest on Coronation Day, 1953. And Morris’s real distinction, as Sara Wheeler affirms, was as a travel writer. It was a term she loathed. (Wheeler follows Morris’s own lead in using male pronouns for the author’s early life and female ones after 1970, when transition was nearing completion.) But as a young man James had immersed…
Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire By Antonia Senior
It may be thought that the notorious Cambridge spies – the majority of them members of the Apostles, that university’s secretive, elitist society – had been written out. But, as Stalin’s Apostles makes clear, such is not the case. Most of the books on what the KGB later called their ‘Magnificent Five’ – Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross – have dwelt …
We Know You Can Pay a Million: Inside the Dark Economy of Hacking and Ransomware By Anja Shortland
Not so long ago, stories about powerful computer viruses apparently spreading around the world and threatening to bring modern life to a halt regularly filled the news. These days, cybercrime rarely makes the headlines, and most of us have become inured to warnings that our passwords have been found in a data leak. Yet ..
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – APRIL 6, 2026 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Parallel Lives” – Around and under construction.
What Was Behind the T.S.A. Meltdown?
The present mess has roots in two entangled, defining White House projects: DOGE and the mind-bending expansion of ICE. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Trump’s War Hits the Chaiwalas
Restrictions and attacks in the Strait of Hormuz have made fuel prices rocket. Just ask the roadside tea venders in New Delhi. By Nathan Heller
He Helped Stop Iran from Getting the Bomb
A former C.I.A. officer says that he recruited scientists as part of the United States’ effort to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program. By David D. Kirkpatrick
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – APRIL 9, 2026
A Bitter Education
In its quiescence to the West’s war on Iran, India is squandering a precious legacy.
Shenzhen Express
In Shenzhen, the successes and failures of China’s remarkable new economy are on full display.
Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company by Eva Dou
Who Built France?
A new history explores France’s empire from the perspective of the indigenous and enslaved people who participated, willingly or not, in its creation.
By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire by Mélanie Lamotte
A Man-Made Disaster
There has never been a moral and historical reckoning with the horrors inflicted by the Allied firebombing of Japan during World War II.
Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb by James M. Scott
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – APRIL 2, 2026 PREVIEW
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