Literary Review of Canada The latest issue features…
Dwindling serendipity in the age of the algorithmKyle Wyatt
Share the burden, perhaps?Aaron Wherry
When the saints came marching inMichael Ledger-Lomas
The enemies we invented and internedJ.L. Granatstein
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 3.8.26 Issue features Matthieu Aikins and Wesley Morgan on the former Zero Unit soldiers who are now living in the U.S.; Sophie Haigney on love addiction; Robert Draper on his experience taking ibogaine; and more.
A shooting in Washington, D.C., threw their immigration status into jeopardy — and brought attention to a long-hidden dimension of America’s war.
His call to ‘freeze the rent’ galvanized the 69 percent of New Yorkers who don’t own their homes. But the city’s landlords claim the math doesn’t add up. By Jonathan Mahler
In the wake of the U.S. bombing of Iran and its dismissal of European allies, an anxious continent’s best chance at security runs through its largest economy. By Elisabeth Zerofsky
With a big budget and a lot to say, the filmmaker is unleashing her inner monster with “The Bride!” By Lulu Garcia-Navarro
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Bottleneck Recovery’ – Population expansion and genetic reshuffling in koalas…
Induced pluripotent stem cells could help treat diseased hearts and brains
Leaders acknowledge White House role in recent controversial moves
Proposed rule at National Institute of Standards and Technology would limit lab access to a few years
The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘A war without a strategy‘….
His ill-considered conflict risks descending into chaos
The squabble between America’s government and Anthropic makes an AI disaster more likely
Otherwise a fourth year of deflation awaits
One reform offers both security in old age and dynamism now
Britain’s twin populists have a symbiotic relationship
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Anne Enright on a day in Jeffrey Epstein’s life, Jacob Weisberg on the Great Crash, Ingrid D. Rowland on Giorgia Meloni alla fresco, Robert G. Kaiser on Citizen Bezos, Marilynne Robinson on two-party tyranny, Catherine Nicholson on the first diarist, Nathan Thrall on a lost Hebrew classic about the Nakba, David Cole on the fate of affirmative action, Aaron Matz on satire, Orville Schell on Chiang Kai-shek, Mark Lilla on a nineteenth-century protofascist, a poem by Patricia Lockwood, and much more.
Sifting through a single day of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveals a surprising amount about the man and his many enablers.
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s history of the 1929 stock market crash reminds us that financial bubbles are inevitable—and that another one may be about to pop.
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation by Andrew Ross Sorkin
When Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013 and promised to find inventive ways to make journalism profitable in the digital age, he seemed like a godsend. He wasn’t.
The Leiden Collection—one of the largest private collections of Dutch art in the world—was conceived as a “lending library for Old Masters,” animated by the humanist spirit found in Rembrandt’s paintings.
Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time: Masterpieces from the Leiden Collection – an exhibition at the H’ART Museum, Amsterdam, April 9–August 24, 2025, and the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, October 25, 2025—March 29, 2026
The Leiden Collection Online Catalogue, Fourth Edition edited by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. and Elizabeth Nogrady
Some weeks I head out of the office on a Friday afternoon with an uneasy feeling that our best-laid plans for next week’s Guardian Weekly might not look quite the same by Monday. This was one of those weeks.
While the scope and power of the US-Israel attack on Iran – not least the successful targeting of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several other senior leaders – took many by surprise, the drums of war had been building for a while. With hindsight, last week’s failed nuclear talks may simply have been cover for what was to come.
As war unfurled dramatically across the Middle East, it was impossible to predict the consequences on a range of fronts, from the likelihood of regime change in Iran to the impact on America’s regional allies under attack, or the ripple effect on global energy prices and disruption to international travel.
Spotlight | Can the Louvre rediscover its joie de vivre?
After a heist and the departure of its boss, the famous Paris museum is wrestling with repairs, strikes and a criticised renovation plan, reports Jon Henley
Science | Do lizards hold the key to how nature works?
The emergence of a new group of common wall lizards offers an insight into how variety within nature can help conserve species, writes Roberto García-Roa
Interview | The world according to Gavin Newsom
He’s the Democratic politician with movie-star looks, dogged by accusations of being a smooth‑talking elitist. But Gavin Newsom may just win the most powerful office in the world. Jonathan Freedland finds out why
Opinion | Labour needs to wake up to the dawning of a new political era
After last week’s disastrous showing in a byelection, the government must accept voters no longer want two-party politics, argues John Harris
Culture | The wild and witty paintings of Rose Wylie
Roaring into her 90s, the rebellious artist is now sought after by galleries worldwide and her works fetch huge sums. Melissa Denes visited her studio
The historian A J P Taylor was at Oxford during the general strike of 1926. After it, he later recalled, relations between the minority of undergraduates, such as himself, who had gone to help the strikers and those who had signed on as special constables or volunteer strike-breakers were cordial. Only those sensible men who had stuck to their books and essays were disdained. The whole episode seemed funny in a stereotypically English way – like a Punch cartoon brought to life.
The fight over the 2028 primary calendar is one of several proxies for a broader battle about the future of the Party—and the search for the best nominee. By Amy Davidson Sorkin
This year marks the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the nation’s founding. The two hundredth wasn’t exactly smooth sailing. By Jill Lepore
In the fight against climate change, sometimes you have to go out on a limb. By Robert Moor
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘Now I’m A Believer’ – In “Why I am Not an Atheist”, Christopher Beha makes the case for faith…
“Backstitch,” a novel by Marian Mitchell Donahue, examines the stark contrast between public talent and private troubles.
The final novel from a titan of Latin American literature follows a critic trying to capture the essence of his national culture.
A new book by Shelley Puhak dismantles the legend of Hungary’s infamous “blood countess,” separating fact from myth.
MONTHLY REVIEW MAGAZINE: The latest issue feature ‘French Theory in the Intellectual Cold War’….
With the Trump administration’s backing down on its tariffs on China, its military abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, its insistence on seizing Greenland one way or another, its bombings in Nigeria, and its declaration that the official U.S. military budget will be increased by 50 percent in 2027—the last four events occurring in a two-week span in late December and early January—establishment commentators are all over the map.
Vijay Prashad critiques the argument that colonialism was, at most, ancillary to the transition between capitalism and feudalism in Western Europe. Instead, Prashad argues, “capitalism as it historically emerged—industrial, global, racialized, and imperial—was inseparable from colonial expropriation.” This reality must fuel a Marxist conception of the global struggle for reparations for those who have been oppressed and exploited at the hands of empires past and present.
by Paul Buhle
In this dual review, Paul Buhle lends contemporary context to the histories of McCarthyism found in the recently published A Blacklist Education, by Jane S. Smith, and Operation Mind, by Natalie Zemon Davis and Elizabeth Donovan. In these two books, Buhle writes, readers can find parallels with the was that is today being waged against university professors and students for political activities—a stark reminder that political witch-hunts did not end with Joe McCarthy.
by Craig Medlen
Craig Medlen dissects the logic behind the Trump administration’s efforts to impose tariffs as a way to counteract “unfair” U.S. trade deficits. Situating these deficits in the longer history of U.S. trade hegemony and its crumbling position in the global economy, Medlen uses incontrovertible data to illustrate how mainstream economic orthodoxy fails to acknowledge the effects of foreign inputs that integral to the workings of U.S. monopoly capital.
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