Category: Arts & Entertainment

Globetrotting: Writers Walk the World

“Fifty writers recount their journeys by foot in this delightful compendium from anthologist Minshull…. Hikers, explorers, and those seeking contemplative journeys will be inspired. ” —Publishers Weekly GLOBETROTTING WRITERS WALK THE WORLD Introduced and edited by Duncan Minshull In Globetrotting, Duncan Minshull, the UK’s “laureate of walking,” brings […]

Dodcast #60: Anthony Saggers

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more   Dodcast Dodcast #60: Anthony Saggers 0:00 2:22:22 Dodcast #60: Anthony Saggers Man is the Devil Luke Dodson Mar 25 READ IN APP Anthony Saggers talks about the offensive term ‘bigglesy-buggles’, terrible James Bond fanfiction, the demise of Western civilization, his […]

Yankee Go Home

by Karl Richter Arktos Journal Mar 24, 2024 Karl Richter examines Niger’s expulsion of foreign troops as a lesson in sovereignty, contrasting it with Germany’s status as an occupied, non-sovereign country. Niger shows how it’s done: Yankee go home! Why can’t we do the same as Niger: terminate […]

Cherchez la Femme

Sponsored by St. John’s College David A. Bell Piety & Power A lively biography of Marie de Vignerot, the niece, confidante, and heiress of Cardinal Richelieu, sheds light on the religious passions and political intrigues of seventeenth-century France. James Quandt An Anatolian Chekhov Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film, About […]

Unfamiliar Colors

A dispatch from our Art Editor, Leanne Shapton, on the art and illustrations in the Review’s March 21 and April 4 issues. Our eighteenth art newsletter is drawn from the particular palette of the Philippines and sketches I made on a research trip that I took there after closing the March 21 […]

An Adult’s Garden of Essay

Sponsored by University of California Press “In his day,” writes Phillip Lopate in the Review’s April 4 issue, “Robert Louis Stevenson was celebrated equally for his essays.” A posthumous entry in the 1916 Cambridge History of English Literature called him “the foremost essayist since Lamb,” while contemporaries like the critic Edmund Gosse, […]

Weird Aesthetics, pt. 1: Lovecraft and Visual Art

A series studying Lovecraft’s attitude towards aesthetics and the way his own aesthetics are embodied in his writings. Alexander Adams Mar 17, 2024 [Alexander Adams, “H.P. Lovecraft” (2024), linocut, available for purchase via https://www.imperiumpress.org/merch/posters-and-prints/%5D H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) has inspired generations of authors and artists through his original fiction […]

Gwyneth’s longevity hacks

March 16, 2024 • 3 min read with Joi-Marie McKenzie Welcome back! It’s officially spring break season — but this mom travels all year round with her family. Thanks to multiple streams of income, they’ve been to more than 57 countries!   If you’re into the nomadic lifestyle, […]

Down and Out in Boston

Sponsored by The Writers’ Institute at CUNY Our April 4 issue is now online, with Erin Maglaque on miracles, Christian Caryl on Alexey Navalny’s legacy, Miranda Seymour on Lord Byron’s reputation, Jason DeParle on seeing homeless people, Daphne Merkin on Barbra, Eric Foner on civil rights and the courts, […]

How the Soviets Manipulated Media

Sponsored by London Review of Books Jonathan Steele The Party Line A new book about Western journalists’ experience in Moscow during World War II sheds light on the problems of media manipulation and self-censorship in coverage of Russia today.   Meghan O’Gieblyn The Trouble with Reality William Egginton’s […]

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Stardom-crossed Lovers

Sponsored by Hirmer Publishers Frances Wilson ‘Diabolical Fame’ Composed of rhapsody and opinionation, without shape or chronology, Roger Lewis’s biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton tries to get at the strangeness of stardom. Linda Greenhouse Social Progress & the Courts For decades Gerald Rosenberg, author of The Hollow Hope, […]

What Happened in Vegas

Jake Nevins Imperial Era The National Football League’s embrace of gambling, Taylor Swift, Nickelodeon subscribers, data analysts, beer enthusiasts, international sports markets, and ever more corporate sponsors helped the Super Bowl fit right in to Las Vegas. Dennis Zhou Filming and Forgetting Taipei Edward Yang’s films approach Taiwan’s […]

Kaboom!

Sponsored by Yale University Press Tim Flannery Ready to Rumble A new book by the volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer details the gifts and destruction brought by volcanoes, and the sublimity and terror experienced in their presence. Lynn Hunt A New Force Set Loose A new history of pre-1789 France […]

The Snowy Day

Sponsored by Kasmin Gallery A dispatch from our Art Editor, Leanne Shapton, on the art and illustrations in the Review’s February 22 and March 7 issues. As a kid in Canada, I’d read and reread The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. I think it may have been responsible for why I […]

The Anarchists of Dune

By thecollective From The Transmetropolitan Review Across the world, the movie-watching public will soon behold the Fremen of Dune sack and destroy the Empire, starting on their homeworld of Arrakis. This irresistible moment, where the rebels actually win, is sure to sink into the mass-public consciousness, but despite […]

An A for Failure

New York Review of Books In the Review’s March 7 issue, Robert Pogue Harrison reviews two recent books, by Costica Bradatan and Geoff Dyer, about failure, humility, and death. Losing—and a head-on confrontation with the sense of losing—might, Harrison offers, help us “gain insight into the mortal, fallible, and […]

Novel Novels

Sponsored by Hirmer Publishers Merve Emre What’s Your Type? Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You and Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood play with the novel’s traditional concern with character types. Kristen Martin The Parent Trap The sociologist Kelley Fong argues that we would do better by children and families if we […]

The Great Dissonance

Zander Feb 14, 2024 Zander argues that unsustainable tension between popular will and the actions of elites inevitably results in great reckonings. A friend recommended* the recent film Nefarious (2023) as a rare example of a genuinely right-wing production, something almost unheard of in mainstream Western entertainment today. […]

The Many Lives of George Eliot

Beyond the Marriage Plot George Eliot’s novels were ruthless and precise dissections of the 19th-century marriage plot, exposing, Francesca Wade writes, the “harsh disparities between societal expectations of married life and their own, often painful experiences of it.” Reviewing a new biography of the English novelist, Clare Carlisle’s […]

Hold Up

Sponsored by Columbia University Press Last fall, Lauren Michele Jackson reviewed Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster Barbie for the NYR Online. With the publication this morning of “Tired of Pink,” her disquisition on Mean Girls and mean girls past and present, she has begun to assemble a corpus on twenty-first century femininity. As she writes, […]

Towards New Monuments

What lessons can emerging monument makers learn from the careers of two senior sculptors? Alexander Adams Feb 8, 2024 [Michael Sandle, St George and the Dragon (1988), London, bronze. Source: Wikipedia] Recently, I looked at two senior public sculptors: Michael Sandle RA (b. 1936), a Modernist, and Alexander […]

TV’s new era

February 8, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Hello! If you’ve made it this far without getting on the TikTok bandwagon, don’t sweat it. The emphasis on its shop and ads means the app has gotten kind of bad, writes Katie Notopoulos.   In today’s big […]

The Last Days of Phil Ochs

Phil Ochs, the humanist troubadour who had a special incisiveness and edge to his creations, was a vital creative voice of the protest era and one of my artistic heroes. He fell into depression and ultimately suicide in the 1970s, in part from an inherited condition, mixed with […]