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Preview: London Review Of Books – April 13, 2023
Let’s go to Croydon – Jonathan Meades
Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain
Its appeal is part of the recurrent cycle of the centripetal giving way to the lure of the burbs. Save that, in this instance, it’s not the lure that accounts for an invasion of beards and craft beer but the unaffordability of housing in East London. Let’s go to Croydon! For want of anywhere else.
Rewriting the Marcos Years – Sheila S. Coronel
Which archival sources are used and whose voices are silenced? The Marcoses have – for now – claimed the archive and seized the narrative. They tell the story of a golden age followed by a fall and a quest for redemption. In the Philippines, a deeply Catholic country, the story has a satisfying narrative arc.
Arts/Culture: Humanities Magazine – Spring 2023
Humanities Magazine – Spring 2023 Issue
Audubon in This Day and Age
The artist and his birds continue to challenge us
John James Audubon, dead for 172 years, has been in the news again. Disturbing facts known to his biographers—that, for example, when he kept a store in Henderson, Kentucky, he enslaved people—have gained new currency, although the National Audubon Society has, for now, held on to its name. For many, Audubon has become synonymous with an activity—call it science, ornithology, natural history, birding, love of the outdoors—that has, for the longest time, excluded people of color.
A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True, and a Lot of What Is True Is Not Known.
In 1701, in Middletown, New Jersey, Moses Butterworth languished in a jail, accused of piracy. Like many young men based in England or her colonies, he had joined a crew that sailed the Indian Ocean intent on plundering ships of the Muslim Mughal Empire. Throughout the 1690s, these pirates marauded vessels laden with gold, jewels, silk, and calico on pilgrimage toward Mecca. After achieving great success, many of these men sailed back into the Atlantic via Madagascar to the North American seaboard, where they quietly disembarked in Charleston, Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York City, Newport, and Boston, and made themselves at home.
Books: Literary Review Magazine – April 2023
Literary Review – April 2023 issue: The April issue of Literary Review is out now! In this month’s cover article, Kirsten Tambling looks at how Shakespeare’s Juliet has been reinterpreted and received through the ages.
Such Sweet Sorrow
Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare’s First Tragic Heroine – In 1611, the Somerset-born traveller Thomas Coryat described an Italian architectural novelty: a ‘very pleasant little tarrasse, that jutteth or butteth out from the maine building: the edge whereof is decked with many pretty little turned pillers … to leane over’.
One Day in October
Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – April 10, 2023
The Christian Liberal-Arts School at the Heart of the Culture Wars
Conservatives like Ron DeSantis see Hillsdale College as a model for education nationwide.
By Emma Green
Conservative movements to reform education are often defined by what they’re against. At a recent public briefing, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, decried the imposition of critical race theory and mandatory diversity-and-inclusion training at the state’s schools.
The Trump Show Moves to a Courtroom
The former President’s campaigns against officials investigating him have supplied Joe Biden with a favored theme: the need to fortify democratic institutions.
Preview: Archaeology Magazine – May/June 2023
Archaeology Magazine (May/June 2023):
Roman Ruins Uncovered at England’s Exeter Cathedral
(BBC News reports that traces of a Roman street and timber buildings were uncovered in southwest England at the site of the cloister garden at Exeter Cathedral during an investigation ahead of the construction of a new cloister gallery.
The Shaman’s Secrets
An impressive selection of grave goods including roe deer antlers (top) that could have been worn as a headdress and boars’ teeth (middle) and tusks (above) with holes drilled in them enabling them to be suspended from an animal skin were found in a 9,000-year-old shaman’s burial.
Bad Dürrenberg is a modest spa town in eastern Germany, perched on a bluff overlooking the Saale River. On a Friday afternoon in 1934, workers were laying pipe to supply the spa’s fountain with water when they came across red-tinted earth.
(Photographs Juraj Lipták)
Preview: Architectural Record – April 2023
Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti Pay Tribute to the Late Rafael Viñoly
The founders of Boston-based Machado Silvetti look back on their decades-spanning friendship with the celebrated Uruguayan architect.
Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – April 3, 2023
Barron’s Magazine – April 3, 2023:
The Battle Over TikTok Is Just Starting
Americans spent 53 billion hours on TikTok last year, according to one Wall Street estimate. If the service is banned in the U.S., much of that time could go to Meta, YouTube, and Snap. What it all means for stocks.
Barney Frank Says He Tried to Save Signature Bank
The former Democratic congressman, of Dodd-Frank fame, has a lot to say about the rapid demise of the New York bank that he served as a director.
These 15 Midsize Banks Have a Risky Specialty
With high concentrations of commercial real estate loans, these midsize lenders could come under pressure. But they look to be managing the risks well.
UP AND DOWN WALL STREET
March’s Stock Market Came in Like a Lion, Goes Out Like a Bull
The Stock Market Rallied Into a Banking Slowdown. Be Worried.
The New York Times Book Review – April 2, 2023
The New York Times Book Review – April 2, 2023:
Guerrilla Gardeners Meet Billionaire Doomsayer. Hurly-Burly Ensues.
“Birnam Wood,” by the Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton, is a fast-moving ecological novel and a generational cri de coeur.
Read Your Way Through Edinburgh
Edinburgh calls to readers, its pearl-grey skies urging them to curl up with a book. Maggie O’Farrell, the author of “Hamnet,” suggests reading that best reflects her city.
Fine Art: The Burlington Magazine – April 2023
The Burlington Magazine – April 2023: Few paintings capture the exhilaration of the arrival of spring as powerfully as Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Orchard in blossom, bordered by cypresses’, a detail of which is on the cover of our newly published April issue.
Process: Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum 1500–1900
The manifold collections of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, include rich holdings of the decorative arts, international in scope, with a natural bias towards the Netherlands. But unlike the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, products of the nineteenth-century campaign to improve design, the Rijksmuseum, a national museum of art and history, had no strong motive to collect design drawings (although the Rijksprentenkabinet, housed in the museum, contains one of the world’s great assemblages of engraved ornament).
Politics versus archaeology in Paris
An air of anticipation has greeted the fourth anniversary of the fire that broke out on 15th April 2019 and destroyed the medieval roof of Notre-Dame, Paris, together with its flèche, designed by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1859. The main controversies surrounding the restoration having been settled – as reported in this Magazine, in July 2020 the French government announced that the roof and flèche will be rebuilt as they were, using the same materials as the original – attention has turned to the discoveries being made and to the restoration process.
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