Boston Globe
A church draws families together across the US-Mexico border. A wall pushes them further apart.
Portraits from ‘Trump Town USA’, the Texas community at the center of a one-time media frenzy
As Oklahoma races to set execution dates, a pastor holds a quiet — but lurid — protest
Germany has lessons about containing the damage of COVID-19
The Washington Post
On Stephen Greenblatt’s Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
On Sleeping with Strangers, David Thomson’s confused critique (or celebration) of sexism in movies
New York Times Magazine
How Did ‘Witch Hunt’ Become the Complaint of the Powerful?
Everyone Wants to ‘Influence’ You
New York Times
Pandemics Get Forgotten. But Not at This Museum.
Piecing Together the History of Stasi Spying
‘The Crown’: The History Behind Season 4 on Netflix
In Prison, Learning Magic by Mail
An Ex-Jesuit Who Wrote Tales of an Ironic God
Latin Dictionary’s Journey: A to Zythum in 125 Years (and Counting)
Jean-Paul Dubois Wins Goncourt Prize With Melancholy Prison Novel
At ZKM, Celebrating 30 Years Ahead of the Curve in Art
Maryse Condé Wins an Alternative to the Literature Nobel in a Scandal-Plagued Year
Elaborate Ancient Shrine is Excavated From the Ashes of Pompeii
London’s Radio Pirates Changed Music. Then Came the Internet.
‘Bodyguard,’ a Dark Thriller From the BBC, Is Coming to Netflix
British Museum Accepts Hundreds of Rare Ivories As Ban Looms
In Paris, Banksy Spreads a Trail of Graffiti, and Rumors
Keith Haring Mural in Amsterdam Is Uncovered After Nearly 30 Years
Netta Barzilai of Israel Wins Eurovision With a Chicken Dance
As Turkey Turns Inward, Cultural Exchange Falls by the Wayside
Alice Birch Wins 2018 Blackburn Prize for ‘Anatomy of a Suicide’
Belgium Drops Rapper from World Cup Song After Sexism Outcry
A Musical About Slobodan Milosevic Stirs Memories in Kosovo
After a Promise to Return African Artifacts, France Moves Toward a Plan
Holocaust Artist’s Legacy Is Contested in Germany
A Monument to Syria’s Civil War Is Erected in Berlin
Swiss Prosecutors Will Not Pursue Polanski Rape Investigation
Pussy Riot Takes Aim at Trump and Putin in New Song
French Court Orders Return of Pissarro Looted by Vichy Government
Eric Vuillard Wins Goncourt Prize
How Chopin’s pickled heart became a symbol of Polish national identity
Which hunts are witch hunts? (print only: NYT Kids edition)
The Atlantic
Ghost Wall shows the human cost of nativism
Sally Rooney’s Normal People looks at love and capitalism
Slate
The Power of Food in Roald Dahl
Financial Times
Life and death in San Quentin: how forgotten photos were turned into art
Cecily Brown on sexism, subverting Englishness and the dangers of treating art solely as capital
Artist Wangechi Mutu: ‘I wanted them to sit upright and unafraid’
Teresita Fernández: the Miami-born artist taking her hometown by storm
Author Hisham Matar on visiting galleries one painting at a time
Could you handle 19 hours in the air?
Why Frieze Sculpture represents a new chapter for the New York fair
How Neri Oxman reimagined design
Is #selfcare a salve or a sham?
Short review: Daphne by Will Boast
Linked in: On the strange allure of chain mail
Short review: Five-Carat Soul by James McBride
Fashion feature: On conflicted Americana under Trump
Short review: A Poison Apple by Michel Laub
Snapshot: the Royal Gifts exhibit
Short review: What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
Away from my desk: Jeremy Corbyn, Bob Diamond and Paula Hawkins on their perfect summer holidays
Snapshot: Doug Menuez’s ‘Fearless Genius’ exhibition
Snapshot: Osaretin Ugiagbe’s ‘Unbelonging’ exhibition
Short review: Letters from Klara by Tove Jansson
Snapshot: ‘Urban Riders’ by Mohamed Bourouissa
Snapshot: ‘War/PostWar’ by Fons Iannelli
Short review: Essayism by Brian Dillon
Snapshot: ‘press++’ by Thomas Ruff
Snapshot: ‘Mathematics’ by Peter Fraser
NPR
Klara And The Sun Asks What It Means To Be Human
The Clouds And Downpours Of Summerwater Set The Scene For Human Drama
All About The Story Is A History Of Newspapering — And A Primer On Media Ethics
In On All Fronts, CNN’s Clarissa Ward Showcases Gravity, Costs Of A Reporting Life
Sex Is The Most Powerful Force In This Lying Life
Fraught Relationship Between Sisters Lies At The Heart Of Daisy Johnson’s Latest
Former Rep. Katie Hill Aims To Encourage Women To Run For Office In She Will Rise
Journalist Kim Wall’s Parents Show She Was More Than A Victim In A Silenced Voice
The Art Of Her Deal Aims To Show Melania Trump As An Influential Collaborator
The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Is A Lackluster Prequel To The Hunger Games
Rodham Asks: Who Is Hillary Without Bill?
Funny Weather Asks What Art Can Do In A Crisis
In Notes From An Apocalypse, The End Of The World Is A State Of Mind
In How Much Of These Hills Is Gold, This Land Is Not Your Land
In An Age Of Screens, Looking For Attention In All The Wrong Places
Jonathan Karl’s Memoir Shows That Everyone Is Front Row At The Trump Show
In Recollections Of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit Once Again Tackles Gender Bias
Witchcraft, Field Hockey And 1980s Massachusetts Meet In We Ride Upon Sticks
The Resisters Could Use A Little More Resistance
Between Two Fires Asks: At What Point Are We Responsible For Our Actions?
In Catch And Kill, Ronan Farrow Offers A Damning Portrait Of A Conflicted NBC
Chanel Miller Says Know My Name As She Reflects On Her Assault By Brock Turner
Audience Of One Aims To Show How TV Shaped Donald Trump — And Led To His Rise
She Said Tracks The Remarkable Reporting Leading To The Arrest Of Harvey Weinstein
Telepathy And Surveillance Converge In Overthrow
We’re All Haunted In The Turn Of The Key
White Flights Examines The Legacy Of Whiteness On Fiction And Culture
I Like To Watch Is A Passionate, Brilliant Defense Of TV
In The Enemy Of The People, CNN Reporter Recounts His Time Covering President Trump
Frannie Langton Takes Power Over Her Own Story
Unfreedom of the Press Is Full of Bombast and Bile
On Bret Easton Ellis’s Silly, Aggrieved White
The Old Drift Takes The Long View Of Human (And Mosquito) History
Could A Novel Lead Someone To Kill? ‘Murder By The Book’ Explores The Notion
‘Kushner, Inc.’ Adds Little To The Canon On Jared And Ivanka
Journalism’s Battles Are On Display In Jill Abramson’s ‘Merchants Of Truth’
‘The Water Cure’ Makes Toxic Masculinity Literal
Brutally Intelligent ‘Milkman’ Depicts Lives Cramped By Fear
Bernie Sanders Criticizes Democrats And Republicans In ‘Where We Go From Here’
Just How Tight Are Family Ties When Your Sister’s A ‘Serial Killer’?
Jonathan Franzen Finds Hope In Nature In ‘The End Of The End Of The Earth’
Sarah Perry’s ‘Melmoth’ Bears Witness to out Worst Moments
Stormy Daniels Offers ‘Full Disclosure’ On Her Own Terms
Homer’s ‘Unwilling’ Women Are No Longer Quiet In ‘The Silence Of The Girls’
‘The Shadow President’ Is A Missed Opportunity To Better Understand Mike Pence
Nell Stevens’ The Victorian and the Romantic
Caitlin Moran’s How To Be Famous
Curtis Sittenfeld’s You Think It, I’ll Say It
Meaghan O’Connell’s And Now We Have Everything
Leslie Jamison’s The Recovering
Meg Wolitzer’s The Female Persuasion
Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s The Merry Spinster
Sarah Vaughan’s Anatomy of a Scandal
Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey
Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties
Eleanor Henderson’s Twelve-Mile Straight
Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
Claire Messud’s The Burning Girl
Alissa Nutting’s Made for Love
Anne Helen Petersen’s Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud
On David Sedaris’s Theft by Finding
Patricia Lockwood’s Priestdaddy
Deb Olin Unferth’s Wait Till You See Me Dance
Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Devil and Webster
Claudia Rowe’s The Spider and the Fly
Matt Fraction and Christian Ward’s ODY-C
Jeremiah Towers’s Table Manners
Eimear McBride’s The Lesser Bohemians
Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow
Nadja Spiegelman’s I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This
Megan Abbott’s You Will Know Me
Gay Talese’s The Voyeur’s Motel
Catherine Banner’s The House at the Edge of Night
Edna O’Brien’s The Little Red Chairs
Ethan Canin’s A Doubter’s Almanac
John Wray’s The Lost Time Accidents
Bill Bryson’s The Road to Little Dribbling
Diana Athill’s Alive, Alive Oh!
David Searcy’s Shame and Wonder
Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)’s Career of Evil
Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time
Anna Lyndsey’s Girl in the Dark
Miranda July’s The First Bad Man
Amanda Palmer’s The Art of Asking
Charles D’Ambrosio’s Loitering
Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl
Louise Glück’s Faithful and Virtuous Night
Jennifer Weiner’s All Fall Down
The collected love letters of Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy
Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing
Francine Prose’s Lovers at the Chameleon Club
Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me
Mary Beard’s Confronting the Classics
Natsuo Kirino’s The Goddess Chronicle
Charles Moore’s Margaret Thatcher
Colm Toibin’s The Testament of Mary
Chinua Achebe’s death, and literary accomplishments
Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son wins the Pulitzer Prize
‘Smoke’ Author Dan Vyleta Keeps It Messy
Times Literary Supplement
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