Brendan Ruberry

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Brendan Ruberry

An immigration judge ruled Friday that the US government can deport Mahmoud Khalil — a Palestinian activist and former Columbia University graduate student detained last month. The ruling said the court lacks standing to challenge the actions of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Khalil, who will not be immediately deported, may request a stay by April 23, after which his attorneys may formally appeal his deportation to either Syria or Algeria.

2 weeks ago | semafor.com | Brendan Ruberry

The Great Gatsby’s 100th anniversary has sparked renewed reflection on what is considered one of the greatest American novels. Described by Vox as “all the more lovely because it is so ambivalent,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic tale of Jazz Age decadence gained early popularity from “a series of accidents” — a pocket-size edition for WWII soldiers and, later, its patent suitability for high school syllabi.

2 weeks ago | semafor.com | Brendan Ruberry

A new exhibition seeks to bolster the legacy of Claude Monet’s stepdaughter, Blanche Hoschedé-Monet, who was the impressionist master’s assistant, mentee, and constant companion on his famous plein air painting expeditions. Often clambering after him with canvases and brushes, Hoschedé-Monet was “the only one of his children… whose passion for painting mirrored his own,” the BBC wrote.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Brendan Ruberry

NowThe nominees for the translated fiction award “don’t shut down debate, they generate it,” said the author Max Porter, who leads the judging panel. A satire of expatriate life in trendy Berlin, a tale of an antiquarian book dealer stuck in a time loop, and a fictionalized retelling of a migrant boat …

3 weeks ago | semafor.com | Brendan Ruberry

A new biography of Mary, Queen of Scots taps into a freshly decoded trove of letters from the imprisoned monarch that reveal her complicity in a number of cloak-and-dagger schemes meant to win her freedom. Jade Scott’s Captive Queen is a unique success, Allan Massie wrote in The Wall Street Journal, in that, as far as 16th century biographies go, it breaks genuinely new ground: Mary’s letters demonstrate far deeper involvement in espionage than was previously known.