Weekly Review — May 29, 2018, 5:04 pm

Weekly Review

US president Donald Trump wrote in a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that a scheduled summit between the two parties “will not take place,” and then said that the planned date for that summit “hasn’t changed.”[1][2][3] Kim said he’d consider dismantling his country’s nuclear arsenal at a meeting with South Korean president Moon Jae-in that was held at a “truce village” located in the demilitarized zone between the two countries.[4] Ireland repealed a constitutional amendment that banned abortion, and in Scotland, it was announced that an employment tribunal hearing would be held for a woman who was gagged …

By Jacob Rosenberg

Art — May 29, 2018, 10:19 am

“Roosevelt, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA,” a photograph by Charlotte Dumas from her series Anima, which portrays the burial horses of Arlington National Cemetery. Dumas’s work is currently on view at the Chrysler Museum of Art, in Norfolk, Virginia. Credit: © The artist. Courtesy Julie Saul Gallery, New York City

Memento Mori — May 23, 2018, 10:15 am

Philip Roth (1933–2018)

Remembering Philip Roth

By Harper's Magazine

Weekly Review — May 22, 2018, 11:59 am

Weekly Review

A 17-year-old student at Santa Fe High School in Texas opened fire on his classmates, killing ten people with a shotgun and a .38 revolver that were both legally owned by his father.[1] The state’s lieutenant governor blamed the shooting on the school’s abundance of “entrances” and “exits,” and the incoming National Rifle Association president said that Ritalin prescriptions were responsible for the violence.[2][3] US president Donald Trump alleged, without evidence, that his 2016 presidential campaign, which is currently being investigated for possible collusion with the Russian government, was infiltrated by FBI spies for “political purposes”; it was reported that …

By Matthew Hickey

Commentary — May 22, 2018, 11:01 am

Marriage of Myths

“Monarchy offers a fantasy of national communion while, by its very existence, making it more unlikely to ever come to pass.”

By Tanya Gold

Art, Monday Gallery — May 21, 2018, 10:07 am

“Montegut, Algae Blooms near Montegut, Louisiana,” a photograph by Ben Depp, whose work is on view at A Gallery for Fine Photography, in New Orleans. Courtesy the artist and A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans