“Daybreak is a work of art, a gleaming, fanged nightmare of a book by a major American author who himself is an Army veteran … Gallagher’s writing captures how rich and strange my native country is while layering the monstrousness of the new war on top.” https://t.co/I74AO8rFP8

NEW: The Sierra Club embraced social justice. Then it tore itself apart.

“Hamilton is millennial cringe” Yes, it’s a Broadway play, choreographed dancing and song is indeed not normal life, thank you Gen Z

The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04

Still can't believe I got to do this one: I traveled to Montana to profile the novelist Tom McGuane. Often compared to Hemingway, McGuane is a cattle rancher, world-class fly fisherman, and one of the greatest literary outdoorsmen of all time. At 85, he may also be the last. 🧵

Ivan Aivazovsky, Constantinople, 1884

I was just telling a student that the point of learning, creating, and solving challenges is not only to have some instrumental product at the end, but to build your own capacity, to become smarter and better yourself. Most AI usage undercuts and reverses that capacity building.

Paratrooper Captain Lewis Nixon of the 101st Airborne Division slowly gets up the morning after celebrating VE-Day with fellow officers of the Battalion. 🪂 The source of all those bottles was the wine cellar of Reichmarshall Hermann Göring. 🍾

The Radiohead interview in today's Sunday Times is genuinely heartening. They clearly have principled political differences over playing in Israel but everyone involved just . . . sounds like a grown-up.

On the road with Lt. Gen. Haibatullah Alizai, the last commander in chief of Afghanistan’s military. He fought to the end until the Taliban took over. We’re traveling across the U.S., from coast to coast, to visit his soldiers living in exile. He wants to tell them to not lose

So, freelance colleagues who cover Ukraine: Anyone found an insurance solution? It's now mandatory for foreign reporters to have insurance, by UA law (fair enough) Here are the options for UK journos as I see them - keen to hear if others have better ideas! (1)

A good essay here on institutions, the hyper-individualistic impulse in American letters, and the enduring relevance of THE CAINE MUTINY, which nears the 75th anniversary of its publication. By @TheoLipsky https://t.co/gBcg7ewOeb

Actual shot (not AI!) of a French detective working the case of the French Crown Jewels that were stolen from the Louvre in a brazen daylight robbery. Somehow he looks like he’s smoking even without a cigarette in his hand, but surely everything you know about life is screaming

From W.H. Auden's review of The Lord of the Rings:

Nothing goes harder than the tombstone of John Keats.

Today in 1859, John Brown and 22 abolitionists raid an arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in hopes of mounting an armed slave rebellion. Federal troops, commanded by Robert E Lee, recapture the magazine. Brown will later hang for treason. More here: https://t.co/aYn7Bqy9RV

I offered some thoughts on lessons from Ukraine’s drone war for air power in this @TVPWorld_com piece: https://t.co/WP4PPhfQeB

One of those obviously true and unobjectionable things that needs repeating and repeating because we live in the dumb times

The discovery of the statue of Antinous in Delphi, Greece in 1894 is one of my favourite photographs of all time

At one point in Frankenstein you're reading the story of a Turkish girl, told to a Frenchman, overheard by the monster, who's narrating it afterwards to Victor, who's recounting it to an English sea captain, who's writing it down in a letter to his sister