As Americans head to the polls for midterm elections we ask, what’s at stake? Plus: Sweden’s prime minister mounts a new charm offensive to win Turkey’s Nato support, the latest from Cop27 in Egypt, a flick through today’s papers and a look at the role of animals in diplomacy.
Category Archives: Stories
Preview: London Review Of Books – Nov 17, 2022
In the Photic Zone: Flower Animals
Life on the Rocks by Juli Berwald.
While there are many different sorts of Anthozoa, their basic unit is a polyp: an individual soft flower-animal similar to an anemone. While anemones are solitary, in corals these polyps band together to form colonies. As they grow, they build a skeleton of limestone around themselves, drawing calcium and carbon molecules from the seawater. They also draw in carbon dioxide to feed their resident algae. Over time these skeletons accumulate upwards and outwards. Corals build on their predecessors, leaving their own legacy behind them for the next generation. Reefs are, in part, the frozen exuberant bouquets of the past.
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – Nov 14, 2022
The Case Against the Twitter Apology
Our twenty-first-century culture of performed remorse has become a sorry spectacle.
Emma Thompson’s Third Act
The actress and screenwriter takes on a musical.
Do We Have the History of Native Americans Backward?
They dominated far longer than they were dominated, and, a new book contends, shaped the United States in profound ways.
Analysis: Climate Policy Is Off Target, Qatar’s World Cup, Worries About Exams
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, climate policy is off target, (10:40) Qatar’s World Cup isn’t quite over the goal line and (18:35) why do people who worry about exams do worse?
Sunday Morning: Stories & Headlines From London
Emma Nelson and Julie Norman look ahead to the US midterms. Plus, our panellists Terry Stiastny and Simon Brooke unpack the weekend’s biggest talking points, Monocle’s Guy De Launey brings us news from the Western Balkans and Andrew Mueller orates his week in the newsroom.
Covers: World Literature Today – Nov/Dec 2022
In a wide-ranging conversation that headlines World Literature Today’s November issue, we celebrate Ada Limón being named the 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
Singing Back to the World: A Conversation with US Poet Laureate Ada Limón
by Chard deNiord
With your latest passport to great reading, the editors are also excited to launch an ambitious new editorial initiative to offer a greater number of shorter pieces to help further diversify the magazine’s coverage and facilitate reader engagement from a wider variety of cultural angles. Through literature, music, film, food, and art, WLT is finding more ways than ever to connect you to the global cultural landscape of the 21st century.
Headlines: Germany’s Olaf Scholz Visits China, Russia Set To Abandon Kherson
Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz visits China, the first leader of a liberal democracy to do so since the coronavirus outbreak. Plus: reports that Russian troops are ‘likely’ to abandon a city in Kherson, the business news and Andrew Mueller’s weekly round-up.
Covers: The NY Times Style Magazine – Nov 13, 2022
T’s Winter Travel Issue
Three writers go searching for echoes of a vanished culture — or a resurrected one.
– Spain: In the country’s churches and streets, the remnants of eight centuries of Islamic rule are hiding in plain sight.
– Singapore: Cuisine is one of the few ways to define Peranakan culture, a hard-to-pin-down blend of ethnic and racial identities.
– Tajikistan: While the nation’s history is being hidden behind glimmering new facades, its artisans hold on to tradition with quiet determination.
Covers: Country Life Magazine – Nov 2, 2022
Headlines: North Korea Missile Launches, Italy PM Meloni At EU, US Midterms
Italy’s new prime minister Giorgia Meloni meets EU leaders in Brussels. Plus: South and North Korea exchange missile launches, the significance of the Hispanic vote in the upcoming US midterms, and the latest fashion news.
