Category: Arts & Entertainment

Julia Ecklar – Tin Soldier

Walkabout track 03. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: https://archive.org/details/filk_walk… Find more of Julia Ecklar’s excellent music at: https://www.prometheus-music.com/ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— [book: Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card] Lyrics: Too evil; Too gentle. Breed again and give them what they need. You’re […]

Tender Eminem, and Other Levines

Sponsored by Classical Pursuits   David Levine On the cover of the third issue of The New York Review of Books (September 26, 1963), right in the middle of Susan Sontag’s assessment of the first volume of Albert Camus’s Notebooks, sits a fellow with a large nose. The man is not Camus, but he […]

Get a Life

Sponsored by Cambridge University Press   Title page from a 1676 edition of Plutarch’s second-century The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans “Biographer, know thyself!” So Hermione Lee condensed the argument of one of several books about the genre of biography that she reviewed for us in 2001. “The […]

Star Trek from the Right

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Watch now Eurosiberia Podcast #67: Star Trek from the Right To boldly follow the vibe shift Arktos Journal, Constantin von Hoffmeister, and Phisto Sobanii Aug 12 READ IN APP Phisto Sobanii and Constantin von Hoffmeister discuss Star Trek, neo-paganism, multipolarity, the […]

From Newhouse to the White House

Martin Filler The Apprentice’s Sorcerer Condé Nast’s editors shone brightest in its premillennial heyday, but the media company’s opaque proprietor, S. I. Newhouse Jr., made his most consequential discovery in Donald Trump.   James Quandt An Impulsive Master Jacques Rozier’s films are free-wheeling and intermittently brilliant, but his […]

Imperial March (Reprise)

Gabriel Winslow-Yost The Revolution Will Not Be Star Wars What Andor depicts most clearly is what its kind of storytelling can’t say. Tariq Mir Kashmir: Death and the River “The cease-fire [between India and Pakistan] has held so far, but peace may well be elusive. Water will be one of […]

To Serve in Heaven

William Blake, John Milton (1800–1803); Manchester Art Gallery In the Review’s June 9, 1966, issue, the literary critic Christopher Ricks wrote that John Milton is “the most controversial poet in English.” Since that early issue, considerations of Milton have found their way into our pages like a serpent into a garden, […]

Letter to a Young Influencer

I understand you call yourself a writer. Rachel Haywire Jul 17 READ IN APP Dear young influencer, I understand you call yourself a writer. You see life as a journey and you’ve cast yourself as the protagonist nobody noticed. A character so immersed in your own narrative you […]

Beyond Family Guy

by Joakim Andersen Arktos Journal Jul 17, 2025 Joakim Andersen reflects on Family Guy as a Gen X cultural product, contrasting it with The Simpsons, and explores its dark humor, nihilism, and critique of post-bourgeois society, while examining how the show handled themes of gender, race, and class, […]

Eternal return

Week XXVIII, MMXXV Brought to you by Codecademy Recently, in The Signal: What does Germany’s new military expansion mean for Europe? Liana Fix on Berlin’s mission to build the Continent’s most powerful army. Today: Why are studios releasing so few original new films? Andrew deWaard on how movie […]

“I am a Cell of One”

The archetypes of criminal and artist are intertwined. Bravery, recklessness and egotism drive hero-villains, who fascinate us and embody the man-of-action. Alexander Adams May 17, 2025 Supernatural master criminal Fantomas, from the 1912 film In my novel The Naked Spur, we encounter a protagonist who is freeing himself […]

Straight to It, Then

Sponsored by Harvard University Press Sanford Schwartz once wrote in The New York Review that when David Salle puts down his brush and picks up his pen to write art criticism, he does so with the same “seemingly out-of-nowhere assurance” with which he arrived on the painting scene in the late […]

Trump’s War on Foreign Films

Trump’s War on Foreign Films Plus: Alcatraz reopening, Bukele corruption scandal, assisted suicide, and more… LIZ WOLFE Foreign films fucked: Another week, another round of tariffs! Yesterday, President Donald Trump said he would be imposing 100 percent tariffs on all foreign films. “WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!” […]

The Surreal Century

Sponsored by Reaktion Books Jed Perl A Century of Surrealism One hundred years after André Breton launched the Surrealist movement, we’re still trying to make sense of its aims and effects. David Cole From Evasion to Silence As the courts resist his deportation orders, Trump has responded with […]

Weaponize Art!

Our May 15 issue—the Art Issue—is now online, with Susan Tallman on warp and weft, Ingrid D. Rowland on Vitruvius, Jerome Groopman on antivaccine lunacy, Martin Filler on the new Frick, Julian Bell on art in an age of crisis, Lisa Halliday on Claire Messud, Heather O’Donnell on the […]

China, Soft Power, and Film

Global Impact: The Case of Film by Sijia Yao Over the past several decades, America’s Hollywood as a cinematic and entertainment industry has emerged and maintained a successful model of cultural globalization. In the past two decades, Hanliu or the Korean Wave, which first gained popularity in East […]

Fervent and faithful new translations of Rumi

“These stunning translations of Master Rumi, at once gustatory and spiritual, cut the gloom of our existential doings. Imperative now, as ever, to know this beauty and love.” —Anne Waldman WATER Rumi Translated from the Persian by Haleh Liza Gafori Water expands on Gold, Haleh Liza Gafori’s inspired and widely praised translation […]

In Deep Manure

Sponsored by the University of Chicago Press Our April 10 issue is now online, with 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 […]

Far from Heaven

A dispatch from our Art Editor, Leanne Shapton, on the art and illustrations in the Review’s March 13 and March 27 issues. This newsletter comes to you while I’m watching Thunder on the Hill, part of the “Douglas Sirk Noir” series currently streaming on the Criterion Channel. A […]

With Dangers Compast Round

Sponsored by The Morgan Library & Museum In our March 27 issue, Catherine Nicholson writes about Paradise Lost and the many readings, interpretations, and rereadings that have sustained John Milton’s epic poem for nearly four hundred years. People as far apart in time and disposition as William Blake and Malcolm […]

Notes from Underground

Sponsored by McCarter Theatre Center Russian human rights organizations estimate that there may be as many as 10,000 political prisoners scattered across the country’s penal colonies. Last summer, Joy Neumeyer wrote to fourteen of these imprisoned dissidents, unsure whether anyone would even receive her messages. To her surprise, […]