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The Octavian Report
EditorSam Munson
CategoriesPolitics, Economics, Culture
FrequencyQuarterly
PublisherRichard Hurowitz [1]
Founded2014
CompanyOctavian Foundation
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Websitehttps://octavianreport.com/
ISSN2576-5035

The Octavian Report is an American quarterly magazine published by the Octavian Foundation. It covers economics, politics, and culture. [2] It was founded by Richard Hurowitz[3] in 2014. Members of The Octavian Report’s editorial board include Garry Kasparov, Anne Applebaum, Bernard-Henri Levy, Ian Bremmer, Stacy Schiff and Nouriel Roubini.[4]

Notable contributors and interviews include: Former U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz; Novelist and Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa;[5] Former Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper; Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney;[6] Former President of South Africa FW de Klerk; Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak; political activist Jody Williams; Former Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd; Israeli Human Rights Activist Natan Sharansky; News Anchor Ted Koppel; Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry;[7] Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton;[8] and American novelist Madeline Miller.

In its Spring 2019 issue, the magazine featured an interview with Harold Bloom on Othello which was illustrated with a specially commissioned painting Desdemona by John Currin.[9] The Winter 2018 issue featured photographs by photographer Thomas Demand.[10] The Summer 2017 issue featured an interview with environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel about his work to sequence Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA.[11]

The Octavian Report also sponsors the annual Octavian Forum. The inaugural Octavian Forum was hosted by Sotheby’s in 2017.[12] The Forum features interdisciplinary panel discussions on wide-ranging topics in finance, politics, and art. Past speakers at the forum have included: Jim Grant and Nouriel Roubini;[13] Former Prime Minster of Spain José Maria Aznar;[14] former Pixar CFO Lawrence Levy,[15] author Erica Jong,[16] Billionaire Thomas Kaplan; former National Director of the Anti-Defamation League Abraham Foxman and former Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre Ethan Stiefel.[17]

The Octavian Report produces a podcast, “The Rostrum.” In 2020, it launched a special series devoted to the COVID-19 crisis.[18]



References[edit]

  1. ^ Fontanella-Khan, James (28 January 2020). "Kama Sutra' publisher Quarto rebuffs £90m takeover". Financial Times.
  2. ^ Blumenthal, Robyn Goldwyn (21 October 2017). "Gold Could Reach $3,000 to $5,000 an Ounce". Barron's.
  3. ^ "The Octavian Report". Richard Hurowitz.
  4. ^ "About Octavian Report". Octavian Report.
  5. ^ "The Storyteller - An Interview with Mario Llosa". Octavian Report.
  6. ^ "The Outlook for Geopolitics and Global Security - an Interview With Dick Cheney". The Octavian Report.
  7. ^ "Perry Talks Russia With The Octavian Report". William J Perry Project.
  8. ^ LaFranchi, Howard (26 March 2018). "A hawkish new White House tilt, but some also see a glimmer of realism". The Christian Science Monitor.
  9. ^ Selvin, Claire (23 October 2019). "John Currin Talks 'Othello,' 'Existential Inauthenticity,' and Contemporary Art: 'I Think Most Things Are Ugly and Stupid'". Art News.
  10. ^ "Thomas Demand Selected Bibliography". Matthew Marks Gallery.
  11. ^ Cascone, Sarah (15 August 2017). "Cracking the Real da Vinci Code: Meet the Scientist Who Is Mapping Leonardo's DNA". Artnet News.
  12. ^ "The Octavian Forum: Be Informed. Be Inspired". Sotheby's Newsletter. 9 August 2017.
  13. ^ English, Carleton (26 September 2017). "Sotheby's to host hedge fund conference". New York Post.
  14. ^ "The Octavian Forum Brings Giants of Finance, Politics and Culture to Sotheby's". Sotheby's Newsletter.
  15. ^ "Speaking". Lawrence Levy.
  16. ^ "An Interview With Octavian Forum Speaker Erica Jong". Sotheby's Newsletter. 13 September 2017.
  17. ^ "Diverse thought leaders headline Octavian Forum". Macquarie. 23 October 2019.
  18. ^ "Rostrum". Octavian Report.

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