Barron’s Magazine – January 2, 2023 issue:
Yields are up on a range of attractive investments—and many beat inflation. 12 ways to cash in.
The mutual fund and brokerage giant is building out crypto services even as the market collapses. What’s behind its Bitcoin plans.
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The New York Times Book Review – January 1, 2023:
Don DeLillo’s book “White Noise,” newly adapted for the screen by Noah Baumbach, precisely diagnosed the modern condition, Dana Spiotta writes.
Tangier’s many facets have long inspired writers. Here, the Moroccan-born novelist Laila Lalami introduces readers to the books and writers that, to her, best capture the city.
Aidan Levy has written a revealing, comprehensive biography of the improviser-hero Sonny Rollins.
The New Review Magazine – January 1, 2023 issue:
Director Sam Mendes answers questions from readers and famous fans including @Aiannucci, @DMiliband, olivia colman, judi dench…..
+ Classical music diet – By @FionaMaddocks + Arts & books for 2023 + Q&S Actor Siobhan Finneran @michaelhogan
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The New York Times Magazine – January 1, 2023 Issue:
Power struggles, resignations and made-for-TV moments — the untold story of the most important congressional investigation in generations.
For Jason Lentz, being a world-class competitive lumberjack was fated in his family tree.
Operating in shadows, he was a hero; in the light, he quickly became a villain.
What prompted the development of systems of writing?
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts by Silvia Ferrara, translated from the Italian by Todd Portnowitz
Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present by Johanna Drucker
At the heart of Todd Field’s new film is a conductor who cannot see beyond her generation’s field of vision.
Tár a film written and directed by Todd Field
Trump’s attempt almost two years ago to undermine the 2020 election reads today like a blueprint drawn for a future autocrat.
The thesis of an exhibition on the inspiration a subset of Cubism took from trompe l’oeil is convincingly built with objects made across four centuries.
Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition – an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 20, 2022–January 22, 2023
Even more impressive than Ukraine’s will to fight is the vast network of citizens who are supporting the armed forces and helping those in need of food and supplies.
New fossil discoveries show predatory marine reptiles from 200 million years ago may have been bigger than today’s blue whales – and that they evolved astonishingly rapidly
The coming year will be a turning point for the Amazon rainforest, artificial intelligence and even our diets. Let’s choose a more hopeful direction for humanity
It took generations of work by engineers and scientists to reach this month’s nuclear fusion milestone, but there are big challenges ahead
Literary Review of Canada: January–February 2023:
By Edward Struzik
The catastrophic runaway wildfires advancing through North America and other parts of the world are not unprecedented. Fires loomed large once human activity began to warm the climate in the 1820s, leading to an aggressive firefighting strategy that has left many of the continent’s forests too old and vulnerable to the fires that many tree species need to regenerate.
Along the country’s seven-hundred-mile front line, constant artillery fire and drone surveillance have made it excruciatingly difficult to maneuver.
Presidents have been impeached, but none has ever been asked, after leaving office, to turn himself in for arraignment. The January 6th committee’s final actions could help change that.
Literature once filled in archival gaps by saying the unsayable. Now a younger generation is devising new modes of telling the story and finding new stories to tell.
The New York Times Book Review @nytimesbooks (December 25, 2022):
In the historian Sarah Gristwood’s “The Tudors in Love,” for both monarchs and courtiers the stakes are higher than romance.
A selection of recently published books.
From Bloomsbury to the Billboard Hot 100, these audiobooks will hook you based on story alone.
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