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Preview: Iceland Review Magazine – Oct/Nov 2022
ICELAND REVIEW – October / November 2022
In Harm’s Way
Gréta Sigríður Einarsdóttir October 5, 2022
What can you tell me about North Iceland?
Erik Pomrenke September 20, 2022
When and where are the September sheep roundups scheduled?
Erik Pomrenke September 13, 2022
Previews: Times Literary Supplement – Oct 7, 2022
This week’s @TheTLS , featuring @GeorgeProchnik on Joseph Roth; @WilliamWootten on the Letters of Basil Bunting; Colin Thubron on human endurance; @lindseyhilsum on William Boyd; @GeorginaEMW on Shakespeare’s female editors – and more.
Books: Literary Review Magazine – October 2022
HISTORY
MATHEW LYONS A Country Fit for a Queen Tudor England: A History By Lucy Wooding
BIOGRAPHY & DIARIES
RICHARD VINEN: Kim Kardashian of WestminsterHenry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries, 1943–57 By Simon Heffer (ed)LRR
FRANCES CAIRNCROSS: Daily Mail ManThe Chief: The Life of Lord Northcliffe By Andrew RobertsLR
THOMAS W HODGKINSON Dine HardMadly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries By Alan Taylor (ed)LR
ART & ARCHITECTURE
ROBIN SIMON Smile & SubstanceThe Portraitist: Frans Hals and His WorldBy Steven Nadler
Stories: Putin’s Nuclear Threat, Burkina Faso Coup, Taiwan’s New English TV
Vladimir Putin’s threat to go nuclear in Ukraine. Plus: a coup in Burkina Faso is used by Russia to tighten its grip on Africa, Taiwan launches its first English-language television channel and the latest business news.
Italy Travel: Bellissimo Magazine – Fall 2022
Italy’s second-largest region is also one of its best-kept secrets. Join us as we explore the northern region of Piemonte in the pages of the newly released fall issue of Bellissimo,
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Oct 10, 2022
Inside Russia’s “Filtration Camps” in Eastern Ukraine
Civilians describe being snatched from their homes and sent away for ideological screening, prolonged detention, and, in some cases, starvation and torture. Is there a larger plan at work?
Are You the Same Person You Used to Be?
Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what you’re like isn’t who you are.
Has the C.I.A. Done More Harm Than Good?
In the agency’s seventy-five years of existence, a lack of accountability has sustained dysfunction, ineptitude, and lawlessness.
Books: The New York Times Book Review – Oct 2, 2022
Celeste Ng’s Dystopia Is Uncomfortably Close to Reality
“Our Missing Hearts” explores a fictional world where Chinese Americans are spurned and books are recycled into toilet paper.
What’s the Key to Understanding Donald J. Trump? Start With Queens.
“Confidence Man,” Maggie Haberman’s biography of the former president, argues that it’s essential to grasp New York’s steamy, histrionic folkways.
A Nobelist’s New Novel, Rife With Pestilence and Writerly Tricks
Set on an imaginary island at the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, “Nights of Plague,” by the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, is a chronicle of an epidemic, a murder mystery and a winking literary game.
Views: The Catastrophic Damage Of Hurricane Ian
Four days after Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida, and then again in South Carolina on Friday, there are dozens dead, millions without power, and billions in damage. Correspondent Kris van Cleave reports on the aftermath of the catastrophic storm.
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