The Liminal Space of Year's End: Cultural Patina, Cosmopolitan Ease and Everyday Life Erosion

Introduction: The Janus-Faced Week, Temporal Thresholds and Narrative Cartography The collection of newsletters from Monocle, The Economist, The New York Times, Newsweek, and ARTNews from December 25-31, 2025, represents what anthropologist Victor Turner (1969) termed a "liminal" period—that betwixt-and-between temporal zone where normal structures dissolve and reflection becomes possible. These texts, emanating from disparate journalistic traditions (Monocle's lifestyle curation, The Econom...