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BOSTON REVIEW MAGAZINE FALL 2026 PREVIEW

BOSTON REVIEW MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘NO OTHER PATH FORWARD’ – Eric Blanc on organizing the left, Robin D. G. Kelley on the defund movement, Astra Taylor on the data center backlash, and more.

Mencken Agonistes

Misrepresented by the right and misunderstood by the left, the Sage of Baltimore delivered scathing—and still bracing—indictments of American injustice. By Andrew Holter

Slavery Pure and Simple

A recent bombshell report documents brutal cases of forced labor in Mexico. Why can’t the government take it seriously? By Claudio Lomnitz

The Rise and Fall of Tech Worker Power

Crushing our union drive at Twitter opened the floodgates for Silicon Valley’s assault on labor. By JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine

no other path forward

The Left’s Achilles’ Heel
Can we out-organize the right?
Eric Blanc

The Price of the Ticket
The long arc of the defund movement.
Robin D. G. Kelley

Who Wants AI?
Lessons from the data center backlash.
Lily Hu, Robinson Meyer, Nicholas Rabb, and Astra Taylor

Working Like a Dog
The future of animal rights.
Aaron Neber


features

Gleaner, Cobbler, Commons
Re-establishing the human with John Berger.
Peter Linebaugh

Is It the Phones?
Anatomy of a moral panic.
Lorna Finlayson

A Bigger Hell
Slavery returns to Mexico.
Claudio Lomnitz

Exit and Exception
The Board of Peace as template for a new world order.
Noura Erakat

WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOVEMBER 2026 PREVIEW

WORLD LITERATURE TODAY: The latest issue features ‘Reading in Tasmania’. The 100th year of continuous publication gifts readers all their favorite genres—a profusion of essays, poetry, book reviews, creative nonfiction, fiction, interviews, a booklist for Trans Awareness Month, a postcard from Colombia, and more. Emma Wilkins’s essay on Tasmanian literature provides the cover feature, and translated work from China, Egypt, Mexico, Quebec, and Russia enlivens the issue. Reviews of new books by Solvej Balle, Emmanuel Carrère, Victoria Chang, Edwidge Danticat, Jon Fosse, and dozens more round out the year with essential reading-list titles.


50 Years Ago in These Pages

by The Editors of WLT

The Ancient Nutrients Sustaining Cali, Colombia

by Erik Gleibermann

A Field Guide to Global Trans Literature: 7 Books for Trans Awareness Month

by Alton Melvar M. Dapanas

72 Years Ago Not in These Pages

by Rafael Heliodoro Valle

“The Garden of My Soul”: Edith Wharton’s Living Legacy in France

by Laura Sheahen

Why I Am Not an Indian English Writer

An Essay by Aruni Kashyap

Introduction: Eyes of the Pen, Voices of the Camera

by Yousef Khanfar

Writing on War’s Edge

by Yousri Alghoul

They Call It Displacement—In Reality, It’s Hell (This Is My Story)

by Nour Abo-Rokb

Ghost

by Basem Nabres

Ringtones of My Mobile Phone

by Omar Hammash

APOLLO MAGAZINE – NOVEMBER 2026

November 2026

APOLLO MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Tate’s new collection of Indian art’ | Celia Paul finds herself in Venice | a photographic love letter to London | Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof at 30

Two starchitects, one art museum: can a clash of styles work?

Do the Fondation Beyeler’s new buildings by Peter Zumthor fit in with the rest of the site designed by Renzo Piano? Perhaps they aren’t trying to

What blockbuster auctions tell us about the value of art

The October auctions are always a test of the health of the art market, but there’s more than one way to read the results

Could members’ clubs bring new collectors into the art market?

From the November 2026 issue of Apollo. About a decade ago I found myself in a private room at the Arts Club on Dover Street in Mayfair explaining the reasons for my selection of that year’s international exhibitions, biennnials and art fairs to a table of wealthy diners. The expensively, if discreetly, dressed group – […]

The French restaurant that really does turn food into art

Guy Savoy is the first chef ever to be elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in France. A meal at his restaurant in Paris proves why he deserves this unprecedented honour

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2, 2026 PREVIEW

Donald Trump stands next to a trash can labeled Vote Here.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Barry Blitt’s “Polling Place” – An election strategy.

The Republicans’ Remarkably Bad Midterm Campaigns

Things were going poorly even before Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign ran the most offensive ad of the year. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Charles Kushner and the MAGA Ambassador’s Playbook

Since taking up his post in Paris, Kushner has become known for lobbing provocations onto France’s domestic scene at sensitive moments. As he put it, “Nobody has the courage to say what I say.” By Lauren Collins

The State Officials Defending the Midterms from the President

Donald Trump has tried to purge voter rolls nationwide. Deidre Henderson, the Republican lieutenant governor of Utah, is among the chief election officers standing in his way. By Barton Gellman

How Jim Morrison Surmounted Tragedy and Skied Down Everest

The mountaineer and his partner, Hilaree Nelson, planned a first-ever descent. After her death, he pushed on. By Nick Paumgarten

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 26, 2026 PREVIEW

The Knicks lean in for a huddle break at the beginning of a new season.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Mark Ulriksen’s “Make It Two” – Game on.

The Danger of Getting Too Close to a Source

Richard Darman was my source in the Reagan and Bush Administrations—and my best friend. By Bob Woodward

Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made

They power our phones, cars, dishwashers—and the A.I. systems that prop up the economy. They’re also at the heart of fierce geopolitical rivalry. By Gideon Lewis-Kraus

The New Age of Reading

Alarm about declining interest in books is perpetual. But, as bookselling reaches unexpected heights, James Daunt, the chief executive of Barnes & Noble, thinks a different future is at hand. By Nathan Heller

Facing the Death Penalty

The cases of Christa Pike and Nidal Hasan show how vanishingly fine the line is between a routine execution and an unbearable one. By Amy Davidson Sorkin

THE NEW CRITERION – NOVEMBER 2026

THE NEW CRITERION: The November 2026 issue, edited by Roger Kimball, features major pieces including “Notes & Comments,” David Butterfield’s “The classical inheritance, III: Bound by the book,” Lionel Shriver’s “What do progressives really want?,” D. J. Taylor’s “Spark’s fire,” Cory L. Andrews’s “Hippolyte Taine,” and a collection of “New poems” by David Mason, Jehanne Dubrow, and Robert Chandler, alongside dedicated columns covering reflections, theater, art, music, media, fiction, book reviews, and a notebook segment.

Bound by the book by David Butterfield

What do progressives really want? by Lionel Shriver

Spark’s fire by D. J. Taylor

Hippolyte Taine & the haunting persistence of history by Cory L. Andrews

POETRY LONDON MAGAZINE – AUTUMN 2026 PREVIEW

POETRY LONDON MAGAZINE: The latest issue features new work from Liz Berry, Hannah Lowe, Ahren Warner, and Maura Dooley. We also have prose by Joey Connolly, an interview between Clara–Læïla Laudette and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, and reviews of Helen Mort, Dean Browne, Karen Solie, and Jorie Graham.

Rooms Flooded with Light

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha explains that her poems—written over a decade from a position of relative safety in the US—did not target a specific reader, but rather reflect an evolving, non-linear attempt to communicate across a broad and complex readership profoundly shaped by ongoing trauma and genocide.

Under Pressure

In her new collection Killing Spree, poet Jorie Graham evokes the dual-headed Roman deity Janus to confront a precarious present by looking back at an out-of-reach past while facing a distressing, violent future.

‘it been really interesting is good to talk face to face isn’t it’

Blown Rose and Dialect Press sum up some small press publishing. By Julia Bird, Mike Sims, Juliette Morton

GUERNICA MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2026

GUERNICA MAGAZINE: The latest issue features striking artwork alongside fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and interviews that explore how human understanding takes shape through sensation, memory, and intuition—ranging from Liane Strauss’s inquiry into AI and Emily Dickinson’s poetry to Mirza Waheed’s Kashmiri childhood recollections, Georgi Gospodinov’s poignant tale of progressive hearing loss, Marcelle Shehwaro’s visceral reflections on surviving Aleppo’s airstrikes, previously unpublished letters by Robert Frost, Nattiya Nadaham’s dance-rooted personal essay on Tamil resistance, and evocative poetry by Melissa Studdard and Arman Salem.

How Do We Know? AI and I read “I felt a Funeral – in my Brain,” by Emily Dickinson (Part II)

“What do you want from a poem? Do you go to poems for facts and information, or do you seek out poems because they express singular observations in unpredictable language, stir the imagination, open up possibilities?” By Liane Strauss

Willows, Cucumbers and Sunflowers

“It’s the way of the world, new in place of the old, but still, all those trees and plants and vegetables and flowers, so good and lush and kind somehow.” By Mirza Waheed

Airstrikes

“If you can, choose a building surrounded by taller ones. The logic is that your neighbors would be bombed before you.”By Marcelle Shehwaro

The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 4

“And you mustn’t forget to include Kay in your all-round felicitations; for you don’t need to take my word for it, you can find internal evidence in the book itself that but for her there would have been no seventh book.” By Robert Frost

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – OCTOBER 16, 2026

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘The Glory of the Garden’ – Jonathan Bate’s cultural history….

A Nobel for new forms

Anne Carson’s juggling act By Tristram Fane Saunders

Bowers of bliss

The story of gardens and their cultural significance By David E. Cooper

Appalachian variations

Buried dreams of a small-town prodigy By Beejay Silcox

Myth and man

A flawed but brilliant poet ‘dealt a cruel hand by fate’ By Gabriel Josipovici

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – NOVEMBER 5, 2026

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Sue Halpern on fascist dorks, Colm Tóibín on La Bola Negra, Kathryn Hughes on George Sand, Jeffrey Toobin on the fall of the Voting Rights Act, Colin Thubron on saving the great cats, Nicolas Niarchos on America’s disastrous Yemen policy, Julian Gewirtz on AI supremacists, Susan Tallman on the elusive Vermeer, James Gleick on the duplicitous chatbots, Adam Thirlwell on Wallace Shawn’s genius, poems by David Plante, Claire DeVoogd, and Shane McCrae, and much more.

The Plot to Delete Democracy

In The Nerd Reich Gil Durán shows how Silicon Valley billionaires have pushed a fringe ideology—what is popularly called techno-fascism but is closer in aspiration to straight-up totalitarianism—into the affairs of state.

The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by Gil Durán

Making Light of a Dark Past

La Bola Negra sidesteps the vicious politics of the Spanish Civil War to tell a story about gay sexual freedom.

La Bola Negra a film directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi

Rebel Rebel

George Sand’s scandalous life, including a decade-long affair with Chopin, has obscured the influence of her many novels.

Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand by Fiona Sampson

Mapping Mississippi White

Bennie Thompson’s trailblazing career came after the success of the Voting Rights Act and could end with its fall.