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The New York Times Book Review – March 5, 2023

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The New York Times Book Review – March 5, 2023:

Walter Mosley’s New York: Classes Divided, Races at War

His new novel, “Every Man a King,” is a hard-boiled tale of billionaires, white nationalists and a detective with a complicated past.

The Cousins Who Ruled 19th-Century Europe, Miserably

CREDITANNA RESMINI

“Empty Theatre,” a novel by Jac Jemc, reimagines the lives of two eccentric royals, King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Elisabeth of Austria.

For Thomas Mann, the World’s Chaos Is Inside the House

A newly translated story by the German master explores a father’s feelings for his children in a time of fierce social change.

A Louche Life Set to a Show-Tunes Score

In his name-dropping novel “Up With the Sun,” Thomas Mallon fictionalizes the minor career and tabloid murder of the Broadway actor Dick Kallman.

Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – March 6, 2023

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Barron’s Magazine – March 6, 2023:

Are You Moving in Retirement to Cut Tax Costs? Consider These 4 Factors First.

Are You Moving in Retirement to Cut Tax Costs? Consider These 4 Factors First.

Low-tax states might not always be the bargain they appear to be. They often have higher taxes on things that matter more to you.

The Boom Time for Farmers Can Last. Who Will Reap the Rewards.

Agriculture is getting its biggest tech upgrade in generations. Deere, AGCO, and other industry giants stand to benefit.

Boot Barn Has Steadily Built Its Western-Wear Empire for Years. Cowboy Chic Is Hot, But It’s No Fad.

Boot Barn Has Steadily Built Its Western-Wear Empire for Years. Cowboy Chic Is Hot, But It’s No Fad.

The retail chain now has 333 stores, and is expanding into the Northeast. It has seen steady growth, high profitability, and low debt. And there’s no reason that its growth won’t continue.

Culture: New York Times Magazine – March 5, 2023

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The New York Times Magazine – March 5, 2023:

‘Nobody Wants to Be the World’s Villain’

Inside the Louisville Police Department, where officers are reckoning with what it means to be a cop in a city that doesn’t trust them.

This Revolutionary Stroke Treatment Will Save Millions of Lives. Eventually.

An endovascular thrombectomy, or EVT, being performed at Foothills Medical Center in Calgary, Alberta.

A procedure called EVT is creating radically better outcomes for patients, but only when it’s performed quickly enough — and that requires the transformation of an entire system of care.

CreditNatalia Neuhaus for The New York Times

Research Preview: Science Magazine – March 3, 2023

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Science Magazine – March 3, 2023 issue: The substantial grapevine diversity in the world, showcased here by the vigorous ‘Saperavi’ variety in the Kakheti region of Georgia, reveals secrets about human agricultural history. A genomic survey uncovers two concurrent domestication origins of this essential vine. It also shows how Western Asian table grapes diversified along human migration trails into muscat and unique western wine grapes. 

Ancient DNA upends European prehistory

Genes reveal striking diversity within similar ice age cultures

Hundred million years of landscape dynamics from catchment to global scale

Our capability to reconstruct past landscapes and the processes that shape them underpins our understanding of paleo-Earth. We take advantage of a global-scale landscape evolution model assimilating paleoelevation and paleoclimate reconstructions over the past 100 million years.

Previews: The Economist Magazine – March 4, 2023

This week's cover, March 2nd 2023 | The Economist

The Economist – March 4, 2023 issue:

This week’s worldwide cover celebrates the new drugs promising an end to the world’s obesity epidemic. They could bring riches for their makers, savings for health systems and better lives for millions.

New drugs could spell an end to the world’s obesity epidemic

The long-term effects must be carefully studied. But the excitement is justified

The new Brexit deal is the best Britain can expect. Support it

Both the Tories and the Democratic Unionist Party should get behind the new agreement with the EU

Delta force

Is Bangladesh’s admired growth model coming unstuck?

A development superstar faces malign politics and rising corruption

The tech slump is encouraging venture capital to rediscover old ways

Small, profitable firms in strategic industries are now all the rage

Fine Art: The Burlington Magazine – March 2023

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The Burlington Magazine – March 2023:

Delacroix in Africa and Spain: newly discovered sketchbooks

The sketchbooks Delacroix kept on his travels to Morocco and Andalusia in 1832.

Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color

If asked to name the most successful exhibition of contemporary German art, few people would intuitively think of an exhibition presenting vivid reconstructions of the polychromy of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 5th July 2022–26th March 2023

Books: Literary Review Magazine – March 2023

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Literary Review – March 2023 issue:

Our Man in Ajmer

Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire By Nandini Das

Slow Boat to China

Chinese Dreams in Romantic England: The Life and Times of Thomas Manning By Edward Weech

 It Could Do with a Lick of Paint

A Grand Tour Journal 1820–1822: The Awakening of the Man By Edward Geoffrey Stanley (Edited by Angus Hawkins)

Reviews: Times Literary Supplement-March 3, 2023

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Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS (March 3, 2023) – Peter Frankopan likes to take the long view. In The Silk Roads (2015) Oxford University’s professor of global history argued that the Persian Empire and its trade routes were central to the rise of western civilization, not, as traditionally thought, Rome, Greece and Egypt. In The Earth Transformed Frankopan’s timeline is considerably longer: he looks at climate change since the formation of the Earth 4.5 billion years ago.

The cold eyes of heaven

Assaad Bouab and Janet McTeer in Phaedra

Euripidean revenge tragedies that continue to trouble us

When the North Sea came ashore

Canvey Island, February 21, 1953

A revelatory account of the North Sea flood of 1953

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – March 2, 2023

Volume 615 Issue 7950

nature – March 2, 2023 issue:

Custom-built drug shows its powers against tuberculosis

An upgraded antibiotic holds promise for treating tuberculosis strains that are resistant to existing treatments.

Kevlar helps to make one tough synthetic tendon

A water-filled gel has the strength and elasticity of natural tendon.

Big dino, little dino: how T. rex’s relatives changed their size

‘Impressive’ fossil analysis reveals why some dinosaurs were massive but their cousins were tiny.

Arts & Culture: The Art Newspaper – March 2023

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The Art Newspaper – March 2023 Issue:

The hunt for as many as nine elusive Vermeer paintings continues

As the Rijksmuseum’s once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster brings together an unprecedented number of works by the Old Master, paintings including a self-portrait are still missing

Michiel van Musscher’s A Self-portrait of the Artist in his Studio (1670) is thought to have been inspired by a lost Vermeer work Courtesy of Christie’s
Michiel van Musscher’s A Self-portrait of the Artist in his Studio (1670) is thought to have been inspired by a lost Vermeer workCourtesy of Christie’s

With only 37 authenticated Johannes Vermeer paintings (28 in the Rijksmuseum’s sold-out exhibition), could there be more out there, not yet recognised as from his hand? Vermeer’s production was certainly larger, so the hunt continues for the missing masterpieces. Experts believe that a number are still unaccounted for.

What are the implications of artificial intelligence for the future of art? The robot artist Ai-da and her creators discuss

Ai-da is an artist, she marks a challenge to the category, and it is in this sense that she becomes Duchampian, argue her creators