Names, pronouns & the law by Joshua T. Katz
Balanchine’s Austrian evening by Laura Jacobs
A Jewish life in the Third Reich by Bruce Bawer
Learning from David Milch by William Logan
New poems by Michael Weingrad & Henri Cole
The New York Times Book Review – February 19, 2023:
In “The Declassification Engine,” Matthew Connelly traces the evolution of America’s obsession with secrecy and the alarming implications for our understanding of the past.
His new novel, “Every Man a King,” is a hard-boiled tale of billionaires, white nationalists and a detective with a complicated past.
New books from Kevin Jared Hosein, Pilar Quintana, Nona Fernández and Patrick Modiano.
Barron’s Magazine – February 20, 2023:
A glut of so-called virgin plastic is pushing down prices and fueling demand as recycling fails to advance.
Last year was a tough one for investors. Our latest annual ranking of actively managed funds reveals how the best firms pulled it off.
The invasion has lowered global growth, upended energy markets, and heightened geopolitical risk. What comes next might not be an improvement.
History Today Magazine – March 2023 Issue:
For 600 years Muslims held sway over the Indian subcontinent. Then democracy and a desultory leadership did them in.
Found guilty of the Temple Murders in 1733, Sarah Malcolm became the most notorious woman in Britain. Did she commit the crime alone? Did she commit it at all?
The US government was happy to support the assassination of foreign officials – but not to be seen doing so.
True crime stories, like Sarah Weinman’s Scoundrel, make for suspenseful reading. But do they exploit the criminal, and deepen a thirst for punishment?
The Howe family achieved an influential position of power in late-eighteenth-century Britain, propelled by the shrewd social intelligence of the Howe women.
The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system
New experiments can re-create the young cosmos, when it was a mash of fundamental particles, more precisely than ever before
Plato was right: newborns do math
Barron’s Magazine – February 13, 2023 issue:
Artificial intelligence has sparked new competition in internet search—for the first time in decades. Here’s how to build an AI portfolio.
More people are living longer and healthier. Here’s how to make sure your retirement savings lasts, while still living life to the fullest.
A new book digs into the communication giant’s troubled history as investors await a turnaround under CEO Robert Bakish and nonexecutive Chair Shari Redstone.
Even if you’re fit, healthcare is a massive—and growing—expense that increases the longer you live. Here are ways to stretch your spending power.
In theory, it’s possible to live well while using energy at a rate of just 2000 watts – a quarter of the average for people in the US. Our environment reporter took on the challenge. Here’s what he discovered
Living on Mars will take enormous work, but urban planner Justin Hollander is already on the case in this guide to settling the Red Planet
Psychologists are forging a new understanding of paranoia, which is helping to explain why more of us are prone to the condition in today’s uncertain world
The drug apremilast reduces alcohol intake in mice bred to imbibe to excess and in humans with alcohol-use disorder.
For the first time, astronomers have identified a planet outside the Solar System using ‘microlensing’ data from a telescope in space.
The Arctic fox, which weighs less than many house cats, covers long distances in the frigid north.
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