China's AI progress strains U.S. alliance pitch
Axios 26 Jun 2026

China's AI progress strains U.S. alliance pitch

Washington is racing to sell the world on American AI just as China's cheap and capable models are becoming harder to ignore.Why it matters: Chinese models don't have to beat Open…

Saba Mubarak: Portrait of an artist
The National 26 Jun 2026

Saba Mubarak: Portrait of an artist

Everywhere Saba Mubarak lived as a child, her mother made room for art. The family moved around often, and with them went paintings, palettes, canvases and piles of books. Adornin…

The Odyssey (Cinemas)
The National 26 Jun 2026

The Odyssey (Cinemas)

Three years after Oppenheimer dominated the Oscars and the box office, Christopher Nolan returns with an adaptation of Homer’s epic poem about Odysseus’s perilous journey home aft…

Play Catalogues: Friday, June 26, 2026
The New Yorker 26 Jun 2026

Play Catalogues: Friday, June 26, 2026

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China’s Failed Rebalancing
Project Syndicate 26 Jun 2026

China’s Failed Rebalancing

Stephen S. Roach laments that the government has paid little more than lip service to its greatest macroeconomic challenge.

Walter Mosley: “A Novel is Not a Machine”
Lit Hub 26 Jun 2026

Walter Mosley: “A Novel is Not a Machine”

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Very often one finds literary editors, critics, and some fiction writers talking about novels as if they…