Is abstraction a viable path for those who want to embrace the spiritual in art? Alexander Adams Apr 04, 2024 [Jef Verheyen: Window on Infinity, installation view, KMSKA, © Fille Roelants, 2024] No, no, hear me out on this… It is a common joke that when a pseudo-conservative […]
The 32 Best Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now Matt Kamen and WIRED Staff From “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” to “Three-Body,” these are our picks for what you should be watching on the streamer. READ He Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange Onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared […]
00:20 The effect of Crass 02:02 Politics in now a corporate business 02:26 Were Crass filling in a spiritual void? 03:20 Reality is just dancing particles 06:40 My task is to provide riddles 09:44 Is Ai more real than consciousness…? 10:55 Art, music, Crass and creativity a pathway […]
Caitlin Johnstone Mar 29, 2024 I made a new painting titled “The Self-Immolation Of Aaron Bushnell”, with an accompanying video and a reading of some words on the subject. Watch with sound on: Photos: ______________ Caitlin’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my […]
He’s a bestselling writer with a penchant for bikes, but “Archedelia” author Matthew Crawford offers a new kind of wisdom. A Substack Q&A Matt Taibbi and Emily Bivens Mar 29, 2024 In 1974 a fictionalized account of writer Robert Pirsig’s 17-day motorcycle trip with his son in 1968 […]
“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 […]
A rare print will accompany three new author portraits launched on 1 April Alexander Adams Mar 28, 2024 A set of new linocuts of authors will be launched on 1 April. This continuing series is extended by not just three individual linocut prints, each numbered and signed by […]
Daniel-Ryan Spaulding, a non-Jewish gay stand-up comic, will be performing shows in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem following months of using his platform to speak out against antisemitism By Amy Spiro 22 March 2024, 7:43 am Stand-up comedian Daniel-Ryan Spaulding (Maximilian Koenig) 4 It’s been almost six months since […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
MARCH 15, 2024 Full of Discovery “As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery.” —from “Ithaka” by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Edmund Keeley In our latest issue, our third as a monthly magazine, it feels to me […]
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, […]
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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On February 1, Universal Music Group, the world’s largest record label conglomerate, let its deal with TikTok expire over insufficient royalty payments, among other issues. That not only meant songs by the likes of Taylor Swift, Drake, and BTS were no longer available to post on the app, […]
Quick, what’s your favorite Alan Cumming role? Nightcrawler? The Emcee? GoldenEye? Maybe you’re partial to Eli Gold of The Good multiverse; I’m a Sandy Frink superfan myself. But on Peacock’s delightfully deranged celebreality competition The Traitors, Cumming’s performance of himself is fast becoming a major contender for the […]
How did reactionaries and social conservatives find value in radical new forms of art? Alexander Adams Mar 7, 2024 [Wyndham Lewis, A self portrait, Mr Wyndham Lewis as a Tyro (1921), oil on canvas] In this article, I will look at some links between reactionary supporters of Modernism […]
Caitlin Johnstone Mar 6, 2024 Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Ralph Nader has an article out arguing that the real death count from Israel’s onslaught in Gaza is probably at least 200,000. This could […]
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, […]
Kevin Bacon sings Beyoncé’s ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ for his farm animals in an epic serenade He might have to change his name to Kevin Beycon. When Beyoncé dropped two songs from her upcoming album of country tunes, Renaissance: Act II, she may not have expected to make history, […]
Jessica Lange has made an enviable career out of playing tortured women on stage and screen — Blanche DuBois, Frances Farmer, Edith Bouvier Beale, to name a few not written by Ryan Murphy. She’s just a Grammy shy of an EGOT. And yet, spend a couple hours reflecting […]
Last chance to enroll! Auditor Memberships are still available to read and study W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn with Daniel Mendelsohn In the first season of the New York Review’s new series of online seminars, award-winning author and critic Daniel Mendelsohn is leading participants through readings of five […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
by Daniil Zhitenev Arktos Journal Feb 15, 2024 Daniil Zhitenev explores the parallels between The Lord of the Rings and two medieval legends, highlighting the shared scholarly pursuits of Julius Evola and J. R. R. Tolkien. Julius Evola and John Ronald Reuel Tolkien were contemporaries, belonging to the […]
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. […]
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 […]
Super Bowl ad showing real-life NFL ‘Taylor Swift effect’ is bringing people to tears The daddy-daughter storyline is a tearjerker, without saying a word. Dads and daughters often have a unique bond, which can sometimes hit a rocky spot as adolescence approaches. It’s not that the love isn’t […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Why So Many TikTok Videos Don’t Have Sound Anymore Reece Rogers Music from Taylor Swift, Drake, Bad Bunny, and numerous other artists has been pulled from TikTok following a licensing dispute with Universal Music Group. READ The Console Wars Are Over. Some Influencers Won’t Let Them […]
Niccolo Soldo Feb 5, 2024 Share Note: Some of you younger readers might not enjoy this (and maybe some of you older ones won’t care for it, either), but I wanted to put it together for the sake of just doing so. There is no larger point (nor […]
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Dodcast Dodcast #55 0:00 1:23:26 Dodcast #55 From Vancouver to Vilnius with Ian Campbell Luke Dodson Feb 4 READ IN APP Musician Ian Campbell joins me to talk about the Pacific Northwest black-metal scene; the search for nature-spirituality; the origin […]
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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 […]
Episode 160 Audio with RM Brown Krystal Kyle & Friends Feb 2, 2024 ∙ Paid Welcome back to the pod! We’re thrilled to have RM Brown on the show this week, returning to talk about the latest in lefty politics, the forthcoming presidential election, and more. Is Taylor […]
If there’s one lesson I took away from Caitlin Moscatello’s class-rage-inducing portrait of elite college consultants, it’s that for every well-meaning effort by college admissions officers to level the playing field, there will be a greater effort by the 0.1 percent to tip the scales back in their […]
Chōkōdō Shujin Jan 28, 2024 Chōkōdō Shujin introduces Sōseki Natsume’s profound insights on education’s evolution and its need to adapt to the times, emphasizing the balance between academic, social, and moral education in the modern world. Just as all material goods must be supplied according to the needs […]
A Celebration of Transgressive Ideas Rachel Haywire Jan 25, 2024 At the end of 2023, I threw my first Cultural Futurist Salon on Substack. The results were even better than I expected. All it took was bringing my favorite people together to speak, read, and perform. I decided […]
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