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An Epic for the Ages
The Odyssey By Christopher Nolan (dir)
LITERARY REVIEW MAGAZINE – AUGUST 2026 PREVIEW
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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – AUGUST 10, 2026 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Eric Drooker’s “Outside Art” – A reprieve from the city’s chaos.
The Future, Made in China
Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications. By Evan Osnos
The Failures of the Fauci Hearing
Senator Rand Paul may have approached the matter with theatrics and ill will, but Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision not to testify was a loss. By Amy Davidson Sorkin
How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything
The lawyer who showed an outer-borough striver how to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media. By Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE- AUGUST 2, 2026
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 8.2.26 Issue features Daniel Bergner on sibling therapy; Elisabeth Zerofsky on the Heritage Foundation crackup; Benoit Denizet-Lewis on Bill Maher; and more.
Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble?
Inside the 81-year-old billionaire’s risky, debt-fueled scramble to transform his data empire into an A.I. juggernaut.
In Trump’s Economy, Job Gains Go to Women. That’s Not an Entirely Good Thing.
Despite the administration’s best attempts, the diminishing status of many American jobs is driving a spike in women’s employment. By Noam Scheiber
Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It’s Also Making Us Sick.
The discovery that chronic inflammation is a cause of myriad illnesses could be this century’s biggest medical breakthrough. By Kim Tingley
Five Takeaways From the Times Investigation Into Larry Ellison’s A.I. Gamble
The billionaire’s company took on ominous loads of debt to build data centers around the world. The implications go far beyond Oracle. By Jonathan MahlerJim Rutenberg and Kirsten Grind
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – AUGUST 3, 2026 PREVIEW
BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features…GLP-1s aren’t just for obesity anymore, and sales are exploding. Sizing up the winners.
Here Comes the Next Wave of GLP-1s. They’ll Treat a Lot More Than Obesity.
This blockbuster class of drugs is shattering all sales records. Which stock will do better—Eli Lilly or Novo Nordisk?
Nasdaq Records Worst July Since 2006
Despite Friday’s gains, the index wasn’t able to finish the month higher.
Treasuries Get Whacked by Japan’s Big Yen Fix
Warsh Weighs Fewer Fed Meetings, Report Says
Nvidia Is the World’s Most Valuable Company Again
SpaceX Stock Just Hit a Record Low
SCIENCE MAGAZINE ———– JULY 30, 2026 PREVIEW
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Biotic Bridge’ – Mexican “holding pen” shaped asymmetrical mammal migrations….
A 10-million-year biogeographic holding pen primed the Great American Biotic Interchange
For millions of years after the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, South America was disconnected from other landforms, a time period that has been referred to as its “splendid isolation.” This isolation allowed for the evolution of mammals with distinctive features, including xenarthrans, sprassodont carnivores, and notoungulates. The formation of the Panamanian land bridge facilitated connection of North and South American faunas, with a bias from north to south. Tseng et al. looked at fossils from low latitudes in México and found that northern mammals accumulated in the region before the connection (see the Perspective by McGuire and Williams). This allowed for more rapid dispersal south and further supports that the land bridge first formed during the Pliocene rather than the Miocene.
How black holes get hitched
Analyses of hundreds of collisions find black holes pair up in at least three ways
AI’s top startups are barely publishing their research
More than half of AI “unicorns” have never published a paper or preprint
Ancient DNA shows how smallpox got to the Americas
“ Landmark” paper finds European contact introduced the disease
When mammals crossed between continents
The Great American Biotic Interchange informs the dynamics of modern species invasions
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – AUGUST 1, 2026 PREVIEW
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The global currency beef’ – Lessons from 40 years of the Big Mac Index
What the Big Mac index reveals about a global currency beef
It highlights economic problems—and helps explain how to solve them
It is past time to upgrade to post-quantum encryption
When the quantum breakthrough comes, data being harvested today will be exposed
China is testing America’s defence lines in Asia
The allies must work to strengthen themselves, but also to strengthen America’s commitment
Europe’s fires are just the start
They are not a new normal. But worse can nonetheless be expected
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – AUGUST 20, 2026
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…
Artful Weaving
The most authentic thing about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is its densely braided narrative, but its tormented hero sounds like the heroes of Christopher Nolan movies.
Whose Party?
As Democratic Socialists rack up primary victories, the moderate wing of the Democratic Party looks increasingly out of touch.
Trump’s Constitutional Dictatorship
Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s inside account of the Trump administration portrays a president with a vast appetite for power but who repeatedly backs down when the costs of his actions become too high.
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Out of the Rubble
In novels written immediately after World War II, Wolfgang Koeppen mined the conscience of Germany.
Pigeons on the Grass by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
The Hothouse by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann, with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra
Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann, with an introduction by Joshua Cohen
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY —- JULY 31, 2026 PREVIEW
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘Bugs in the System’ – How India’s Cockroach Movement Undermined Modi….
The news agenda has been so dominated for many months by a few big stories about perennial global hotspots and the biggest figures on the international stage, that one could accuse journalists of missing what was happening outside the US, Middle East or Ukraine. But as our south-east Asia correspondent, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, explains for this week’s big story, the rapid rise and sudden explosion on to the streets of India’s Cockroach Janta party took everyone – especially Narendra Modi’s government – by surprise.
What began as a satirical protest when the chief justice of India compared the country’s unemployed youth to cockroaches has damaged prime minister Modi’s image as a “strongman” leader and loosened his grip over the media. But as Hannah explains, it’s not just that the joke has “legs” and strong visuals; young people want a viable future and change.
Spotlight | ‘Smoke covered the sun’
Angelique Chrisafis hears from people evacuated from France’s Gironde region near Bordeaux as southern Europe battles wildfires, the spread and ferocity of which have shocked everyone
Spotlight | Blue horizons for Gaza’s children
Sea pools made out of sandbags and rubble are part of Amjed Tantesh’s project to give traumatised children a brief respite from war, reports his niece and our Gaza reporter Seham Tantesh
Feature | A Hiroshima journey from anger to peace
Simon Hattenstone meets Koko Kondo, who survived the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and hears about the publication of her father’s long-forgotten diary written in the aftermath of that horrific day in 1945
Opinion | Andy Burnham’s ticket to major change
The UK prime minister’s first policy announcement on cut-price bus fares signals more than a cheap gimmick, says Jonathan Freedland
Culture | John Carpenter interview
The uncompromising film director talks to Steve Rose about his shock and horror Hollywood career and his new music album
THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – JULY 31, 2026
THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘The New Terror’ – How the nuclear shadow returned….
The new nuclear terror
Our Cold War nightmares have returned as a global arms race By Katie Stallard
The responsibility of scientists
We created the nuclear monster. We must warn against it now By Carlo Rovelli
Andy Burnham’s shtick won’t work on Donald Trump
Maga officials view the “special relationship” as insulting By Freddie Hayward
Inside the Green Party’s defence divide
The left-wing faction behind Zack Polanski has called on the party to oppose increases to defence spending By Megan Kenyon
COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE – JULY 29, 2026 PREVIEW
COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features…
All the small things
We overlook the importance of insects at our peril, says Charles Harris, as he marvels at the fruit flies that share our genes and the moths that supply strands of silk
A room with a clue
Deborah Nicholls-Lee searches high and low for the concealed rooms and secret spaces that are an intriguing quirk of so many British country houses
Luxury
Facials, fragrance and bold and beautiful summer jewellery with Amie Elizabeth White, plus a few of the Duchess of Beaufort’s favourite things
Born to be wild
Charles Quest-Ritson visits East Lambrook Manor in Somerset and is heartened to find the home of Margery Fish’s ‘jungle gardening’ in good hands
Vicki Anstey’s favourite painting
The adventurer chooses a work showcasing human resilience
Country-house treasure
John Goodall surveys artworks by the Staithes Group — the first English Impressionists — at Brockfield Hall, North Yorkshire
Revival and renewal
In the second of two articles, John Goodall explores James Wyatt’s influence on the interiors at Curraghmore in Co Waterford
The legacy
Kate Green lauds Benjamin Britten’s lasting impact on Arts and culture in his beloved Suffolk
Winging it
Mark Cocker examines the folklore and infamy of the magpie
Where there’s a grill, there’s a way
John Lewis-Stempel reads the smoke signals as a barbecue fires up Neolithic nostalgia
Alders and betters
Alnus glutinosa is an ancient pioneer species with a key role to play on our riverbanks, as Vicky Liddell discovers
Interiors
Arabella Youens admires the colour and comfort added to a Jersey farmhouse and a splash of zest is best for Amelia Thorpe
Travel
Rosie Paterson enjoys an island paradise off France’s Côte d’Azur
Arts & antiques
Grégoire the grey toad brings a wealth of pleasure to Frederick Fischer, Lalique UK managing director, as he tells Carla Passino
A kind of magic
Multi-talented, multi-disciplinary artist Es Devlin shares the secret of her success with Corinne Julius
And much more
