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The Next Time You Admire a Picasso, Thank a Lesbian Bettmann Archive/Getty Diana Souhami’s new book, “No Modernism Without Lesbians,” spotlights the women who ensured history would remember artists like Picasso, Joyce, and Eliot. Arvind Dilawar Daily Beast Updated Mar. 27, 2021 4:35AM ET / Published Mar. 26, 2021 11:56PM ET Perfection may be the enemy of good enough—but apparently nobody told th..

Beware of Books! A new moralism is gripping the literary world, treating grownups like children Otis Houston Persuasion March 19, 2021 Literature used to be a place for transgressive ideas, a place to question taboos, and seek naked insights into humanity. It no longer is. Critics, writers and publishers are today enforcing a new vision that treats books less as a vehicle for artistic expression..

Bottled Authors The predigital dream of the audiobook Matthew Rubery Cabinet Magazine 16 March 2021 Everybody seems to listen to audiobooks these days. As a recent marketing campaign put it, “Listening is the new reading.”1 What was once a niche entertainment has grown into a billion-dollar industry thanks to the emergence of digital media, smartphones, and an online marketplace that makes it si..

What Happens When a Publisher Becomes a Megapublisher? With 15,000 titles published annually, Penguin Random House, which has announced plans to merge with Simon & Schuster, is already dominant in publishing.Credit...Melissa Lyttle for The New York Times By Elizabeth A. Harris The New York Times Feb. 25, 2021 When Penguin Random House said last year that it planned to buy Simon & Schuster for mo..

Reviewing the Book Review As the publication celebrates its 125th anniversary, Parul Sehgal, a staff critic and former editor at the Book Review, delves into the archives to critically examine its legacy in full. Credit...Leigh Wells By Parul Sehgal New York Times Feb. 26, 2021 Halfway through “Lolita,” Humbert Humbert — relaxed, triumphant and a mere pinch of pages away from his downfall — stop..

Scholarly Blinders and the Diversity of Authoritarianism Bookman Feb 14, 2021 The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today by David Stasavage. Princeton University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 424 pages, $35. Reviewed by Julian G. Waller The authoritarian regimes of today are nothing like those of yesterday, and perhaps will look nothing like those of tomorrow. That is ..

Book review: Doing Philosophy If philosophy isn't a science, then what is it? Timothy Williamson's new book confronts opposing ideas about the discipline and its place in the world. – By Jonathan Egid – The New Humanist, Wednesday, 6th January 2021 Doing Philosophy (Oxford University Press) by Timothy Williamson Is philosophy a science? Timothy Williamson thinks so, and has long defended the con..

The Polish perspective Why has the history of Poland, what was a large country, an important economy and an interesting polity, been marginalised by historians? By Jeremy Black The Critic 17 February, 2021 The simplification of history is part of its abuse by contemporaries and posterity. Taking an abstraction and reducing complexity accordingly to a single perception and narrative, or at most t..

Bill Gates Has Always Sought Out New Reading Recommendations New York Times(BY THE BOOK) Feb. 11, 2021 “I used to ask my teachers what their favorite books were and make my way through the lists they gave me,” says the Microsoft founder and philanthropist, whose new book is “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.” What books are on your night stand? “Infinite Jest.” I’m on a mission to read everything..

The Beijing Heidegger Reading Group By Coby Goldberg Los Angeles Review of Book FEBRUARY 8, 2021 I FIRST MET the members of the Heidegger Reading Group in a small coffee shop at the social science library of Tsinghua University. It was the second month of my exchange semester in Beijing, and I overheard a group of people speaking about Martin Heidegger — Hǎidé gé ěr in Mandarin — and his major w..