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The New York Times Magazine – March 30, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (March 28, 2025): The 3.30.25 Issue features Nicholas Casey on Germany and the remains of its fascist past; Charles Homans on the strange popularity of the Unabomber’s manifesto; Bruce Schoenfeld on the ways baseball analytics are changing the game for starting pitchers; Jonah Weiner on the comedy of Andy Kaufman; and more.

Unburying the Remains of the Third Reich

As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains.

How Analytics Marginalized Baseball’s Superstar Pitchers

Why has pro baseball made it so hard for today’s pitchers to achieve greatness? By Bruce Schoenfeld

Howie Rose Is the Sportscaster Mets Fans Deserve

Amid a changing game, the voice of the Mets since 1995 has anchored its fans to a shared identity. By Joshua Dubler

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National Review Magazine – May 2025 Politics Preview

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NATIONAL REVIEW MAGAZINE (March 28, 2025): The May 2025 issue features ‘Trade-Offs’ – The knock-on effects of Trump’s tariffs…

Free Trade Is How You Live Your Life

And protectionism is a utopian dream. Dominic Pino

Free-Traders Need to Make a Small Exception

By Michael Brendan Dougherty

The DOGE Ate My Constitution

Make the cuts, but follow the law. Dan McLaughlin

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London Review Of Books – April 3, 2025 Preview

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LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 26, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Regime Change in the West’; Marvelous Mavis Gallant; Executive Order 14168; Long Ling visits the new Bejing…


Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson


Normandy: The Sailors’ Story by Nick Hewitt

D-Day, the Oral History: The Turning Point of World War Two by the People Who Were There by Garrett M. Graff

Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1 by Karl Marx, edited by Paul North and Paul Reitter, translated by Paul Reitter

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History Today Magazine – April 2025 Preview

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HISTORY TODAY MAGAZINE (March 25, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Lost World of Ancient Assyria’ – The Library of Ashurbanipal, the African king at Edward VII’s coronation, the origins of India’s Brahmins, British witnesses to Buchenwald, spinning James I’s succession, and more.

The Library of Ashurbanipal

When it was discovered in the 19th century, the Library of Ashurbanipal revealed an ancient Assyrian empire previously known only through myth.

Bloody Mary and the Missing Heir

A male heir might have saved Queen Mary’s reign, and changed the shape of global Catholicism for good.

Vietdamned’ by Clive Webb review

Can Vietdamned: How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial by Clive Webb rescue Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre’s activism from irrelevance?

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Times Literary Supplement – March 28, 2025 Preview

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 26, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Many Muses’ – The women who inspired Rainer Maria Rilke; The real prime minister; Elon Musk’s big wink; The occult world of Ithell Colquhoun…

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Los Angeles Review Of Books – Spring 2025 Issue

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LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 25, 2025): The latest issue is titled Pressure, with all new essays, poetry, and short fiction zeroed in on pressure, resilience, and the break—figurative and literal. 

Features
The Pool at The LINE by Maya Binyam
Dark Waters and Sorcerer by Sam Bodrojan

Nonfiction
Points of Entry: On Lebanon and broken glass by Mary Turfah
Rising from Her Verses: The poetry and politics of Julia de Burgos by Sophia Stewart
Mann Men: Exploring an oeuvre of men in crisis by Clayton Purdom
Jolted out of Our Aesthetic Skins: Mario Kart and fiction in Las Vegas by Simon Wu
Beautiful Aimlessness: The cultural footprint of Giant Robot by Oliver Wang
In Its Purest Form: Reading Lolita on its 70th anniversary by Claire Messud
Perfect Momentum: How to crash someone else’s car by Dorie Chevlen

Comic
Mafalda by Quino, translated by Frank Wynne

Fiction
The Tragedy Brotherhood by O F Cieri
The Eagle’s Nest by Devin Thomas O’Shea

Excerpt
The Heir Conditioner: from Mother Media by Hannah Zeavin

Poetry
Minister of Loneliness by Ansel Elkins
Iterations by Tracy Fuad
Moon over Brooklyn by Daniel Halpern
You by Laura Kolbe
Third Act by Tamara Nassar
Still, my brother’s flag flies by Jorrell Watkins

Art
Melvin Edwards
Tyeb Mehta

Foreign Policy, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

Foreign Policy Magazine – Spring 2025 Preview

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Introducing Foreign Policy's Spring 2025 Print Issue: Billionaire Rule

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE (March 25, 2025): Introducing Foreign Policy’s Spring 2025 Print Issue – Billionaire Rule

Is America a Kleptocracy?

Here’s how life could change for the rich, poor, and everyone in between. by Jodi Vittori

When great changes are afoot, we look for a user manual. There will be new patterns of living and new expectations for the future. The rapidly developing corruption landscape in the United States will be no exception.

Elon Musk’s First Principles

The world’s richest man wants to apply the rules of physics to politics. What could go wrong? by Adam Tooze

Elon Musk is the richest person in the world—one of the richest in history. But Musk’s power is no longer just tied to the financial wealth derived from Tesla, X, or SpaceX. Musk, by virtue of his close relationship with President Donald Trump, has been given a sweeping mandate to influence policy across the entire U.S. government through the newly founded Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). His life as an entrepreneur sheds important light on his work as a political actor.

How Modi and Trump Treat Billionaires Differently

Both have harnessed industrialists for political ends.

Did China Get Billionaires Right?

The party does not grant impunity to the ultra-rich.

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The New Yorker Magazine – March 31, 2025 Preview

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 24, 2025): The latest issue features R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Upstairs, Downstairs” – A tale of two schlepps.

Medical Benchmarks and the Myth of the Universal Patient

From growth charts to anemia thresholds, clinical standards assume a single human prototype. Why are we still using one-size-fits-all health metrics? By Manvir Singh

How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away

When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate by Sean Willi

The E.P.A. vs. the Environment

With the help of the agency, the Trump Administration is doing everything it can to make emissions grow again. By Elizabeth Kolbert

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The New York Review Of Books – April 10, 2025

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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 20, 2025): The latest issue features Michael Gorra on the majesty of Caspar David Friedrich, Cathleen Schine on Hanif Kureishi, Wendy Doniger on letting slip the horses of war, Adam Thirlwell on Lars von Trier, Christian Caryl on denazification, Miri Rubin on Christian supremacy, Jonathan Mingle on the phosphorous shortfall, Brenda Wineapple on the history of American social movements, Geoffrey O’Brien on Fifties Hollywood, Christopher R. Browning on Trump’s antisemitism, poems by Witold Wirpsza and Laura Kolbe, and much more.

Toffler in China

The work of the eclectic American futurist exerted a profound and unanticipated influence on China’s digital transformation since the 1980s.

Lost in the Landscape

The Met’s Caspar David Friedrich exhibition offers an introduction to an artist whose work—luminous, disturbing, serene—reveals an all-encompassing physical realm.

Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature – an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, February 8–May 11, 2025

Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New Age – an exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, December 15, 2023–April 1, 2024

The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time by Florian Illies, translated from the German by Tony Crawford

The Rise and Fall of Warhorses

You can tell the history of a large part of the world by who had what horses when.

Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires by David Chaffetz

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The New York Times Magazine – March 23, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (March 20, 2025): The 3.23.25 Issue features Matt Flegenheimer and Dana Rubinstein on Eric Adams’s scandal-ridden mayoralty; Helen Ouyang on how airline pilots are pushed to hide their mental health issues; Parul Sehgal on progressives and solidarity; and more.

How Eric Adams Lost New York

He promised law and order. Instead, his scandal-ridden mayoralty became a symbol — and engine — of the city’s chaos.

Why Airline Pilots Feel Pushed to Hide Their Mental Illness

Is the F.A.A. really ensuring

How Generative A.I. Complements the MAGA Style

Online Trump supporters have embraced a unique form of irony that is hard to parse — and easy to deploy with new technologies.safety by disqualifying pilots who receive a diagnosis or treatment?