WORLD LITERATURE TODAY (June 26, 2025): The latest issue features Writing with Light – The 2025 Puterbaugh Lecture, by Guadalupe Nettel
WORLD LITERATURE TODAY – JULY 2025 PREVIEW
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THE PARIS REVIEW – SUMMER 2025 LITERARY PREVIEW
THE PARIS REVIEW (June 24, 2025):
Fanny Howe on the Art of Poetry: “If I could say I was assigned something at birth, it would be to keep the soul fresh and clean, and to not let anything bring it down.”
Marie NDiaye on the Art of Fiction: “Oh, no! Reading beautiful books can’t be traumatizing. Seeing awful things can be—but reading? I don’t believe in that at all.”
Prose by Anuk Arudpragasam, Tom Crewe, GauZ’, Zans Brady Krohn, and Joy Williams.
Poetry by Will Alexander, John Berryman, Yongyu Chen, Eugene Ostashevsky, Ricardo Reis, and Nell Wright.
Art by Anne Collier, Celia Paul, and Alessandro Teoldi; cover by Tyler Mitchell.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 23, 2025 PREVIEW
President Trump’s Military Games
Trump, always attracted to playing the role of the strongman, is even more inclined than he was in his first term to misuse the military for his own political gratification. By Ruth Marcus
New York to ICE: “G.T.F.O.”
As protests against Trump’s immigration raids spread nationwide, a crowd gathered in lower Manhattan—complete with bullhorns, balloons, and a toy doughnut to bait the cops. By Adam Iscoe
What Did Elon Musk Accomplish at DOGE?
Even before Musk fell out with Donald Trump, the agency’s projected savings had plummeted. But he nevertheless managed to inflict lasting damage to the federal government. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
THE BRUSSELS REVIEW – SUMMER 2025 PREVIEW
THE BRUSSELS REVIEW (June 15, 2025): The Summer 2025 issue of The Brussels Review offers a captivating blend of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, showcasing diverse voices and narratives. On its evocative cover, Ximena Maldonado Sánchez’s vibrant artwork, Terracotta, beautifully sets the tone for a collection defined by profound emotional depth and artistic exploration. You can also read a review of her work or listen to her journey in our new podcast: Call To The Editor on Spotify.
The issue opens with Sonnet Mondal’s poetic reflections, drawing readers into nuanced meditations on memory, loss, and heritage. His pieces, including “Fragments of Life,” “The Biscuit Factory,” “The Bridge at Midnight,” and “Grandpa’s Veranda,” evoke a poignant sense of nostalgia and the passage of time.
In nonfiction, Gaye Brown’s introspective essay “Some Gifts” elegantly probes the complex nature of generosity, intertwining personal anecdotes with thoughtful philosophical insights. Similarly, Sue Tong’s “Father in the Photograph” and Gina Elia’s “Show and Tell” offer deeply personal explorations that resonate universally, inviting readers to reflect on their own histories and relationships.
The fiction selection is particularly compelling, headlined by Patrick ten Brink’s imaginative and thought-provoking “The Word Thief.” Brink masterfully blends elements of mystery and fantasy to craft a tale that explores the profound power of language and memory. Beatriz Seelaender’s “Motion Picture Sickness” adds a clever and satirical dimension, examining fame, identity, and morality through the lens of contemporary pop culture with sharp humor and keen observations.
Louis Kummerer’s intriguingly titled “A Founding Father’s Guide to Contingency Planning” provides both historical nuance and sharp social commentary, while Charles Wilkinson’s “Hayden in March” and Danila Botha’s “Like Freedom or Fear” explore psychological landscapes with acute sensitivity and emotional authenticity.
LITERARY REVIEW JUNE 2025
Land of Dopes & Tories – The Benson Diaries: Selections from the Diary of Arthur Christopher Benson
To the Postbox – The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf
Guys & Trolls – Lost Boys: A Personal Journey Through the Manosphere
By James Bloodworth
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – MAY 30, 2025 PREVIEW
“The dollar plays a similar role to that of the English language in global commerce”, writes Edward Chancellor in his lead review of three books devoted to American financial supremacy. “Both enjoy network effects: the more they are used, the more others are obliged to use them.”
By Martin Ivens
King Dollar’s shaky throne and fall
Can the world’s dominant currency survive Donald Trump?
‘Literature is the antidote to numbness’
What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – JUNE 5, 2025 PREVIEW
Daniel Trilling
Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilisation by Richard Seymour
Letters
Galen Strawson, Rachel Hammersley, Colin McArthur, Jeremy Whiteley, Richard Davenport-Hines, Terry Hanstock, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, George Anderson, Koldo Casla, Martin Rose
Ed Kiely
Short Cuts: University Finances
Susan Pedersen
Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Neal Ascherson
A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis by Norman Lewis, introduced and selected by John Hatt
Jeremy Harding
Paths to Restitution
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – MAY 9, 2025 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (May 7, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Other America’ – The Hispanic Achievement…
Putting the blame on Spain
Why Anglo-American colonialism has no claim to moral superiority
Behind the velvet rope
The former editor of Vanity Fair looks back on an era of excess
Night visions
Fantastic gloomth: Victor Hugo the artist
London Review Of Books – May 2, 2025 Preview
Dangerous Chimera
Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal
by Quentin Skinner.
Red Pants on Sundays
The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
by Blake Gopnik.
It’s a shitshow
Inside Thatcher’s Monetarism Experiment: The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy by Tim Lankester.
The New York Reviews Of Books – May 15, 2025
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (April 24, 2025): The latest issue features the Art Issue—with Susan Tallman on warp and weft, Ingrid D. Rowland on Vitruvius, Jerome Groopman on antivaccine lunacy, Martin Filler on the new Frick, Julian Bell on art in an age of crisis, Lisa Halliday on Claire Messud, Heather O’Donnell on the Morgan librarian, Noah Feldman on the rule of law, Jarrett Earnest on fancy furnishings, Madeleine Thien on Fang Fang, Coco Fusco on Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jed Perl on Surrealism, poems by Ben Lerner and Carmen Boullosa, and much more.
String Theory
Two exhibitions focused on weaving go beyond the functional, the folkloric, and the feminine, tracking fiber’s escape from the connotations of the grid.
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction – an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, April 20–September 13, 2025
Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art – An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Vitruvius & the Warlords
Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture was not only a manual of the building arts but a treatise on how to extend and consolidate the Roman Empire, and lent itself all too well to the autocratic ambitions of Renaissance princes.
All the King’s Horses: Vitruvius in an Age of Princes by Indra Kagis McEwen
Measles Gone Wild
During a burgeoning measles outbreak, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has continued to make contradictory remarks, publicly endorsing the measles vaccine while raising doubts about its safety.
Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children’s Health by Adam Ratner
So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs—and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease by Thomas Levenson
The Frick Reinvigorated
In an ambitious and long-overdue renovation, the architect Annabelle Selldorf attempted to harmonize with the Frick’s Classical aesthetic while asserting her Modernist credentials.
A Century of Surrealism
One hundred years after André Breton launched the Surrealist movement, we’re still trying making sense of its aims and effects.
Surrealism – an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, September 4, 2024–January 13, 2025, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, November 8, 2025–February 6, 2026
Manifestoes of Surrealism by André Breton, translated from the French by Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane
Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Revised and Updated Edition by Mark Polizzotti
Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School by Martica Sawin
Surrealism and Painting by André Breton, translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor, with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti
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