R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Double-Parked”
The artist on learning to love New York City beaches and balancing passion projects with his career as an illustrator.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by R. Kikuo Johnson
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – August 8, 2022
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Cover: New York Review Of Books – August 18, 2022
The New York Review of Books – August 18, 2022
Mark Danner: We’re in an Emergency—Act Like It!
At a time when the threat of authoritarianism is rising, Democrats have a duty to make crystal clear to voters what is at stake in the November elections.
Alan Hollinghurst: In the Shadow of Young Men in Flower
In Andrew Holleran’s novels, the inescapable narrowness of his world is transcended and given poetic resonance by his close and steady attention to pain and loneliness.
The Kingdom of Sand by by Andrew Holleran
Jennifer Wilson: The First Russian
An unfinished novel about his African great-grandfather provides the best sense of how Pushkin considered his own Blackness.
Peter the Great’s African: Experiments in Prose
by Alexander Pushkin, translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and Boris Dralyuk, edited by Robert Chandler
Cover Preview: Greece-Is Magazine – Summer 2022
Over the 144 pages of our latest issue dedicated to the Greek capital, we‘ve pulled together our best tips for city experiences, new arrivals, urban havens offering respite from the summer heat, and upcoming events.
We also guide you through the neighborhood of Kypseli and the Attica basin’s fabled Tourkovounia hills; present the trendsetters bringing something new to the Athenian experience; and discuss some hot debate-worthy topics: How much tourism is too much? What is going on with the Parthenon Marbles? Where should we eat?
Cover Previews: Science Magazine – July 29, 2022
Surprise virus tied to pediatric hepatitis cases
Two viruses plus a child’s genetic background may explain a recent surge in the United Kingdom
NSF grant decisions reflect systemic racism, study argues
Success rates for white scientists far exceed the NSF average, whereas Black and Asian researchers do worse
Ancient Europeans farmed dairy—but couldn’t digest milk
Giant study of ancient pottery and DNA challenges common evolutionary explanation for lactase persistence
A small marine isopod plays a role in fertilizing red seaweed, according to a new report that presents evidence of animal-mediated “pollination” in the marine environment. Read that study and more this week in Science: https://fcld.ly/fhhe8ba
Previews: New Scientist Magazine – July 30, 2022
COVER STORIES
- FEATURES – Your essential guide to the many breathtaking wonders of the universe
- FEATURES – Daydreaming has a dark side – is your fantasising holding you back?
- NEWS – No link between depression and serotonin, finds major analysis
Grab a copy from newsstands now or get our app to download digital and audio editions. https://newscientist.com/issue/3397/
Preview: London Review Of Books – August 4, 2022
Our new issue is now online, featuring Fredric Jameson on Ben Pastor, @LalehKhalili on oil, money and democracy, John Lanchester on Wirecard, Andrew O’Hagan on Dolly Parton, @davies_will on the seductions of declinism and a cover by Alexander Gorlizki: http://lrb.co.uk
Preview: Science Focus Magazine – July 27, 2022
A multitude of multiverses
Excitingly, scientists say that alternative universes are allowed by physics. We find out about the leading multiverse theories, and establish whether they could harbour an alternate version of you.
TLS Preview: Times Literary Supplement – July 29, 2022
The TLS (Times Literary Supplement) for July 29, 2022 – @TheTLS, featuring @billmckibben on the future of farming; Bart van Es on Shakespeare’s life and sources; @profrhodrilewis on the sixteenth-century mind; @soniafaleiro on Geetanjali Shree; @mary_leng on straw men – and more.
Preview: The Economist Magazine – July 26, 2022
Governments must beware the lure of free money
Budget constraints have gone missing. That presents both danger and opportunity
It is sometimes said that governments wasted the global financial crisis of 2007-09 by failing to rethink economic policy after the dust settled. Nobody will say the same about the covid-19 pandemic. It has led to a desperate scramble to enact policies that only a few months ago were either unimaginable or heretical. A profound shift is now taking place in economics as a result, of the sort that happens only once in a generation. Much as in the 1970s when clubby Keynesianism gave way to Milton Friedman’s austere monetarism, and in the 1990s when central banks were given their independence, so the pandemic marks the start of a new era. Its overriding preoccupation will be exploiting the opportunities and containing the enormous risks that stem from a supersized level of state intervention in the economy and financial markets.
Previews: History Today Magazine – August 2022
August 2022
Prince Darab’s Lost Treasure
Fleeing his father’s empire, an Afghan prince travelled from Kabul to Sindh via Mecca, becoming a fugitive, courtier and pilgrim in the process.
Law of the Land
What relevance do the Norman Conquest and the events of 1066 have to contemporary British politics? Everything and nothing.
Violent Ends
Early modern methods of execution were carefully calculated to inflict shame upon the condemned.
The Unbreakable City
The Battle of Stalingrad began in August 1942, subjecting its residents to months of living hell. But few doubted that the city was worth defending; its significance to the Soviet project made it too important to abandon.
Boomers Daily 