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COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE – AUGUST 12, 2026 PREVIEW

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COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features…

Bradley Hemmings’s favourite painting

The artistic director chooses a colourful work bursting with vitality and the spirit of summer.

Country-house treasure

A Dante Alighieri illuminated manuscript catches the eye of John Goodall at Rockingham Castle in Northamptonshire.

A spread of Country Life magazine with two people who are church wardens

Keepers of the keys

Tessa Waugh celebrates our dedicated churchwardens, the unsung heroes of village life who keep parishes ticking over.

The legacy

Kate Green salutes Dr William Stukeley for saving Stonehenge from destruction in the 1700s.

When we walked in fields of gold

England’s acres of harvested, honey-hued cereal fields have long provided artistic inspiration, finds Deborah Nicholls-Lee.

A spread of Country Life magazine showing a nice house

A little object worth visiting

Romantic Dangan Cottage in Co Kilkenny has been restored to its late-18th-century glory, as John Goodall discovers.

Ghosts in the grass

A scorching summer is revealing country-house garden designs of yesteryear, as our pictures show.

Cuttings not cakes

The Secret Orchard Nursery in Derbyshire wins favour for its plants rather than pots of tea, to the delight of Arthur Parkinson.

A spread of Country Life magazine showing a bathroom

Interiors

Arabella Youens admires the transformation of a South Downs Georgian gem, and everything’s gone green for Amelia Thorpe.

Travel

Rosie Paterson unpacks the latest travel trends, and Giles Kime stays at the Italian base of film director Francis Ford Coppola.

The French connection

Tom Parker Bowles is whisked to the summery South of France by freshly baked pissaladière, the delicious ‘Provençal pizza’.

A spread of Country Life magazine showing a man playing a trombone to some worms

What lies beneath

Tom Howells is in eclectic company at the World Worm Charming Championships in Cheshire.

Luxury

Jonathan Self reveals why the tiara is the epitome of glamour, and Amie Elizabeth White is drawn to the fans of Duvelleroy.

A spread of Country Life magazine with some cows on it

COUNTRY LIFE International

Julie Harding treads the Jersey Tidal Trail, savours scallops with chef Andrew Baird and celebrates the island’s 160 years of herd history, as Holly Kirkwood eyes top properties for sale and Claire Jackson hails a new era for opera.

Arts & antiques

Geoffrey Munn feels strangely drawn to the works of 18th-century art pariah Richard Dadd, as he explains to Carla Passino.

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THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2026 PREVIEW

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THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features “Confessions of a Token Black Professor”…

Why I Quit the Tenure Track

The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia By Tyler Austin Harper

Hindsight Is 2024

Some institutions jumped onto the MAGA bandwagon after the 2024 election, but it hasn’t taken long for those decisions to look shortsighted. By David A. Graham

How the ‘Body Positivity’ Movement Died

A few years ago, there was a push for acceptance of different body types. Now? Not so much. By Julie Beck and Natalie Brennan

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – AUGUST 17, 2026 PREVIEW

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Edward Steed’s “Midnight Bloom” – The sea in full swing.

A.I. Is Now a Major Election Issue

As Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s newly elected Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, put it, “People really effing hate data centers.” By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

The Delusions of John Roberts

The Chief Justice insists that his Supreme Court isn’t biased even as it keeps making dramatic leaps rightward. By Margaret Talbot

Are You a Human?

From branding irons to iris scans, the ancient business of proving who you are has never been stranger—or more lucrative. By Jill Lepore

Inside Russia’s New Gulag

Human-rights groups estimate that more than ten thousand Ukrainian civilians have disappeared into the Russian prison system. This is the story of one cell.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE- AUGUST 9, 2026

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 8.9.26 Issue features Kim Tingley on inflammation as a cause of disease; Heidi Julavits on predicting the weather; Aaron Timms on fans of Anthony Bourdain; and more.