Peter Conrad at The Guardian: John Richardson’s serial biography of Picasso stalled when Richardson died three years ago at the age of 95. After this hiatus it now resumes, but in a different mood. The first three volumes were triumphalist, emphasising Picasso’s victorious advanc … | Continue reading
John Williams at the NYT: Roth’s most securely canonical work is “The Radetzky March,” a sweeping novel about the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. “Rebellion,” like his “Job,” another fable-inflected novel about faith and disillusionment, seems more modest at first glance but … | Continue reading
Rachel Cooke in The Guardian: This extraordinary comic is a collaboration between the neuroscientists Uta and Chris Frith, their writer son, Alex, and the artist and graphic novelist Daniel Locke. Have I ever read anything like it before? No, I’m certain that I haven’t. Each page … | Continue reading
The Wars Between the Wars Between the Borders that Were Not There You had to know how bad the Nazis wereto have loved the Communists. In 1946,in that nightmare time on earth, in that placebetween the wars between the bordersthat were not there, you couldn’t knowwho would be more … | Continue reading
Omar El Akkad in The New York Times: The vacuum where consequences should be is the setting of Aamina Ahmad’s quietly stunning debut novel, “The Return of Faraz Ali” — stunning not only on account of the writer’s talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in its humanity, … | Continue reading
From The Point magazine: On this episode of “What Is X?” Justin E.H. Smith asks: What is friendship? His guest, S. Abbas Raza, is the founding editor of 3 Quarks Daily and has a graduate degree in philosophy from Columbia, but what qualifies him as an expert on this topic is quit … | Continue reading
Sarah Moroz with Mona Chollet at Bookforum: I’m almost fifty, and over the course of my adult life, the evolution has already been amazing. I grew up in a world where feminists were just a few strange women, always mad, and not to be trusted. Feminism was so unpopular. Now, it’s … | Continue reading
Michael W. Clune at Harper’s Magazine: Despite some intriguing speculation, scientists haven’t yet come up with a clear, satisfying answer to the question of why we dream. Part of the reason is doubtless because, as any time spent studying neuroscience will show you, our knowledg … | Continue reading
Jackson Arn in the Boston Review: While I was reading Magritte: A Life, I started to notice apples everywhere. I’d be on the train, learning about The Son of Man—the 1964 portrait of a bowler-hatted man whose face is masked by a floating green apple—and the woman sitting across f … | Continue reading
Lawrence M. Krauss in Critical Mass: The newest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report released in late February paints a bleak picture of the global and local effects of climate change in coming decades, and of the challenges that governments … | Continue reading
Yascha Mounk in Persuasion: Yascha Mounk: It’s been a month since the beginning of the war. What is the state of war today, and how is that different from what we might have expected four weeks ago? Anne Applebaum: We know exactly what the Russians expected four weeks ago. We kno … | Continue reading
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My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate Yallah habibti, move your tongue like the sea easy. My big sister teaches me to ululate, rolls her tongue in waves. Dips thin fingers inside my mouth to pull out mine, stretches it long and pinches the tip. Watch, we move tongues like this. I s … | Continue reading
Sunil Khilnani in The New Yorker: At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this colossus, the largest empire in history, each conque … | Continue reading
Frank Bruni in The New York Times: A week has gone by and I’m still aghast. Still astonished. Still absorbing what Ginni Thomas said in those text messages to Mark Meadows, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, as she urged him to overturn the 2020 election, and what she appar … | Continue reading
Imogen Sara Smith at Current: Bunker Hill was film noir’s favorite neighborhood. In the 1940s and ’50s, the once-exclusive area of downtown LA, with its rambling Victorian mansions, was attractively seedy and decaying, and supremely photogenic. The steep streets create natural Du … | Continue reading
Agnieszka Dale at the LARB: Hodrová was never associated with the dissident movement in the former Czechoslovakia, and none of her writing was published in the underground but half-tolerated samizdat form. As a scholarly woman writing in a rather recondite literary tradition, she … | Continue reading
Kenneth Rosen in Wired News: THE ACT OF doomscrolling—spinning continuously through bad news despite its disheartening and depressing effects—and social media envy, like the fear of missing out, present greater risks to your health than were previously realized. A tranche of rese … | Continue reading
From Delancey Place: Legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday’s autobiography is considered an American classic. Co-written with author and journalist William Dufty at a point when much had already been written about her, it is titled Lady Sings the Blues. …”The opening line of the b … | Continue reading
Cerro Pelado Lookout Cerro mid-april, first day snow finally melted off 270 road tho all the rocks right where I left’em last year two turkey hunters already in the parking area ‘that you guys gobbling down Water Canyon?’ ‘yeah we saw a flock of ’em way far away took a Hail Mary … | Continue reading
Pico Iyer in Guernica: Travel is, deep down, an exercise in trust, and sometimes I think it was you who became my life’s most enduring teacher. I had every reason to be wary when, in 1985, I clambered out of the overnight train and stepped out into the October sunshine of Mandala … | Continue reading
Philip Ball in Scientific American: In case you had not noticed, computers are hot—literally. A laptop can pump out thigh-baking heat, while data centers consume an estimated 200 terawatt-hours each year—comparable to the energy consumption of some medium-sized countries. The car … | Continue reading
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Michael Galway at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Thousands of health workers around the world hunt for polio in two ways: By looking for signs of acute flaccid paralysis in children and testing the environment for the presence of the virus. In Pakistan, for the first time … | Continue reading
David Sloan Wilson and Dennis J. Snower in Evonomics: DSW: Greetings, Dennis! I look forward to discussing the backstory of our article. Let’s begin with how we met, which says a lot about the need for paradigmatic change. It was a workshop organized by a major foundation to expl … | Continue reading
Elżbieta Drążkiewicz in Nature: In 2019, a senior colleague warned me that my research focus was a niche area of a frivolous topic: conspiracy theories related to vaccine hesitancy among parents in Ireland. My area is niche no longer. Motivated to end the pandemic, and to encoura … | Continue reading
E.J. Dionne Jr. and Miles Rapoport at Literary Hub: One hundred percent democracy sounds like a grade someone has achieved in a course—and we would like to believe that our American system can be remade to live up to its promise and become worthy of such acclaim. It refers specif … | Continue reading
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From Phys.Org: Parrots are famous for their remarkable cognitive abilities and exceptionally long lifespans. Now, a study led by Max Planck researchers has shown that one of these traits has likely been caused by the other. By examining 217 parrot species, the researchers reveale … | Continue reading
Rachel Miller in Vox: Forgiveness is often viewed as the “happily ever after” ending in a story of wrongdoing or injustice. Someone enacts harm, the typical arc goes, but eventually sees the error of their ways and offers a heartfelt apology. “Can you ever forgive me?” Then you, … | Continue reading
Benjamin Ivry at Salmagundi: Although Autumntide may seem ornately literary today, when it was first published, some historians criticized its racy readability. Otto Oppermann, a German-Dutch medievalist who taught at Utrecht, referred to the book as “Huizinga’s crime novel,” imp … | Continue reading
Thomas de Monchaux at n+1: This sort of loss, with its confluence of profligacy and jackassery, is a common feature of architectural history. Any speculator who demolishes Geller I to build a tennis court is assuredly some sort of villain, but the villainy is also of a system wit … | Continue reading
Shoalfish I swim with others. Some are dolphins, some are sharks. Which is which depends on the temperature of the water or the weather. Something: it’s not clear. From whale song to hammerhead thrash, they change their tune at the drop of a mask over the side, pulled deep by inv … | Continue reading
Kieran Setiya in the Boston Review: The month is May 1916. In southern Galicia, now Ukraine, on the Eastern Front of World War I, a twenty-seven-year-old Austrian volunteers for duty in an observation post exposed to enemy gunfire. He keeps a notebook of his hopes and fears, writ … | Continue reading
Ian Neubauer in Al Jazeera: In wealthier countries, rodenticides like bromadiolone that prevent blood from clotting are used to combat plagues of rats and mice. But they also poison non-target species, soil, water and sometimes the farmers who apply them, and can be prohibitively … | Continue reading
Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager and Evgeniya Pyatovskaya in The Conversation: We are international critical cultural scholars with extensive experience in various geopolitical contexts – the U.S., European Union and post-Soviet countries. We believe that those who think that sanctions wi … | Continue reading
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Cristella Guerra on NPR: Birth professionals from around the country gathered in Montgomery, Ala., to heal, to learn and to honor the lives and sacrifices of three women: Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey, the Mothers of Gynecology. These towering mothers built of scrap metal were the co … | Continue reading
Michael Eisenstein in Nature: When scientists first came across p53 in 1979, it was an intriguing but not Earth-shattering discovery. Six groups independently discovered a cellular protein with a molecular weight of roughly 53 kilodaltons — hence the name. It seemed that p53 was … | Continue reading
Winter Rye On an evening of broccoli And Billy Collins, My mind drifts back to May, When the pale-green Bermuda Replaced the winter rye, and my father Dutifully attended to his guests. He poured the white wine and laughed At little jokes, so nervous in their delivery, And console … | Continue reading
Ellen Pierson-Hagger at The New Statesman: Across three albums between 2014 and 2019, Harding, who lived for a time in Cardiff, but is now based in a small town back in New Zealand, has released a collection of songs that could most easily be considered contemporary folk. She sin … | Continue reading
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