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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tale of progressive hearing loss, Marcelle Shehwaro’s visceral reflections on surviving Aleppo’s airstrikes, previously unpublished letters by Robert Frost, Nattiya Nadaham’s dance-rooted personal essay on Tamil resistance, and evocative poetry by Melissa Studdard and Arman Salem.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

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.

LITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA – NOVEMBER 2026 PREVIEW

Front cover by David Parkins for November 2026.

LITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA: The latest features Canada’s political identity, constitutional tensions, and colorful parliamentary history while reflecting on the magazine’s own milestone anniversary.

A Coral Anniversary

A panoramic reflection

By Kyle Wyatt

My heart sank when I first saw the magazine’s thirtieth-anniversary issue on paper. My managing editor back then, Michael Strizic, and I had spent the morning pacing in our small, dark office — anxious to receive several heavy boxes from Ottawa. Eventually I couldn’t stand the anticipation, so I walked ten minutes or so to Harbord Bakery to distract myself. The magazines had arrived by the time I returned.

More Unbearable Lightness

Somewhere between patriotism and nationalism

By Patrice Dutil

Thirty-five years ago, in the inaugural issue of this magazine, I reviewed the newly published diary of André Laurendeau, written from 1964 to 1967 during the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. The timing was apt: politicians, scholars, and journalists were speculating heavily on how to fix the “Canadian crisis” following the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord the year before.

Clause and Effect

How section 33 barrels along

By John Lorinc

“By Authority of Parliament: The Constitutional Boundaries of Legislative Power in Canada” by Ryan Alford

In 2017, during the early days of Donald Trump’s first term, the world was riveted both by his reality TV presidency and by the salacious rumours about the way he had obtained it. Insistent tales circulated about how Vladimir Putin’s troll army had engineered the Republican candidate’s victory by hacking into the Democratic Party’s servers and then releasing thousands of embarrassing emails on the eve of Hillary Clinton’s nomination. What followed was a stormy season of investigations and counter-accusations about Trump’s Russian proclivities.

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY – OCTOBER 16, 2026

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘CLASS ACTION’ – Why French students have taken to the streets…


France has been rocked by huge youth protests in recent weeks over the state of high school education, bringing tens of thousands of people on to the streets.

The movement began with outrage over shoddy school conditions in a Paris banlieue, but has spread across the country as pupils voice their anger about a system they say is failing them.

For this week’s big story, Paris correspondent Angelique Chrisafis hears from protesters who feel abandoned by the French state. Angelique also looks at the evidence on students’ complaints of dilapidated buildings, teacher shortages, inequality and low investment.

Then, Alexander Hurst says fixing the broken education system should be just the start for an aloof political class if it is to finally pay attention to a generation who feel neglected.

Spotlight | The future of the death penalty
Donald Trump has used the full might of the presidency to supercharge executions but, writes Ed Pilkington, an avalanche of mishaps has put the system’s flaws in the spotlight

Science | Sweet time
A flurry of recent studies suggests that spending the first 1,000 days of life under sugar rationing may have left traces on people’s health more than seven decades later. Linda Geddes reports

Feature | The art of dismantling a second world war bomb
British bomb disposal squads are being called to more unexploded devices than ever – and they risk their lives each time. Samira Shackle recounts the challenge they faced when two bombs were discovered on the same day

Opinion | A new era of instability
The latest attack by Houthi rebels on Saudi Arabia may prove to be more calamitous for the region than the world imagines, says Nesrine Malik

Culture | Hungry like the werewolf
Duran Duran talk to Alexis Petridis about 80s excess, tabloid scrutiny and their Halloween glow-up

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – OCTOBER 22, 2026 PREVIEW

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features  Fredric the Great by Toril Moi; Trump’s Consigliere by Deborah Friedell; Prediction Markets by Geoff Mann; Prynne’s People by Iain Sinclair; and Theibaud’s Sweet Tooth by Paul Keegan….

Fredric the Great

Toril Moi

Fredric Jameson seemed to me to have read absolutely everything. He was the very antithesis of the intellectual type I think of as an empty theoriser, by which I mean someone who endlessly conjectures without having a genuine command of any relevant archive. To look at Fred as a reader of literature is not to reduce the scope of his work, but rather to try to understand its origins.

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS – FALL 2026

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue of LARB Quarterly, no 50: Scene, is here, featuring essays, poetry, fiction, excerpts, and a special bonus: one-act scenes.

Let’s Keep It for Ourselves

On ‘Unmuzzled OX’—a cult journal that seduced the best writers and artists in North America. Alex Kitnick

Everywhere and Nowhere All at Once

On Afghanistan, empire, and American amnesia on the 25th anniversary of the US invasion. Leila Christine Nadir

  • Armando Ledezma writes on voguing with the House of Ruber in Caracas.
  • Alex Kitnick profiles Unmuzzled OX, a cult journal that seduced the best writers and artists in America.
  • Samuel Chu reports on Operation Yellowbird, the Umbrella Movement, and the dissidents of Hong Kong.
  • Andie Eisen considers the women taking over the funeral industry.
  • Jonah C. Sirott probes how the right stole the flying saucers and the Democrats lost the weirdos.
  • Michel Chaouli reflects on the history—and pleasures—of traveling and reading.
  • Essays by Amber Bal and Doyle D. Calhoun on a misunderstood masterpiece of African cinema, Rachel Cusk on the art of Joan Snyder, Issa Quincy on the 60th annual Angola Prison Rodeo, Yael Segalovitz on slumber, and Negar Azimi on Iranian art in the 2000s.
  • Fiction by Ingeborg Bachmann (transl. Philip Boehm and Tess Lewis). Scenes by Maya C. Popa, Sophia Le Fraga, Yuri Herrera, Jason Porter, Brandon Harris, and Sarah Ruhl.
  • I Come Here Often by Sarah Wang. Double Feature by Eugene Kotlyarenko. Poetry by Sara Eliza Johnson, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Jessica Fisher, Keith S. Wilson, Eileen G’Sell, Mary Jo Bang, and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva.

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 12, 2026

BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN TRADING’ – Wall Street is “tokenizing” stocks and moving them onto the blockchain. What it means for investors.

Wall Street Is Headed to the Blockchain. Inside the Token Revolution.

Tokenization of financial assets could be the biggest revolution on Wall Street since the move from paper to electronic trading. Don’t think Bitcoin. Think blockchain.

Interest Rates Are Surging. Portfolio Moves to Make Now.

Investment pros say investors shouldn’t abandon bonds, but instead focus on those with shorter maturities.

If History Is Any Guide, High Interest Rates Could Be Here for a Good While

This year, Barron’s has published a series of articles linking the birth and growth of America with the rise of financial markets. Today, lessons from the bond market’s 200-plus years.

The Case for Investing in Real Estate Now—Even With Rising Interest Rates

Low valuations and strong fundamentals in subsectors like senior housing and data centers argue for a selective approach.

Inside the Big-Money Business of Protecting Data Centers

Data centers are spending millions on high-tech security, from facial recognition and drones to robot dogs.

THE BEST LANGUAGE

Intellicurean Essays on Intellicurious

When the Swedish Academy reached Anne Carson on the morning of her Nobel Prize, she was, its permanent secretary reported, “for the moment in Iceland, where she’s listening to the wind.” Of everything reported that day, the wind was the one thing with no words in it. That is where her Greek lives.

A vast torn papyrus stretched between two black sea-stacks on a stormy Icelandic shore, wind pouring through its holes, a small figure on the black sand listening
A torn papyrus in the wind, and someone listening, made for the essay.

Why we’re pointing you there

The Academy praised Carson’s “playful dialogue with the classical tradition,” and the chair of its committee spoke of “the philologist’s obsession with words.” Michael Cummins asks where, in the words, that obsession settles, and finds two places: the cries of Greek tragedy, which Greek can build a line on and English can only sigh over as “alas,” and the holes in the papyri, which Carson prints as brackets. When Electra hears the false news of her brother’s death, Carson keeps her cry in Greek, in capitals, and gives it a line to itself: “OI ’GO TALAINA.” When Cassandra screams at Apollo, the god’s name breaks open in English: “Woepollo.”

Her critics are given at full strength. Emily Wilson praised the method and still found Carson’s Agamemnon “does too much of the work for us.” Daniel Mendelsohn judged her work, “to my mind,” the most distinguished reworking of classical models in a generation, and still objected to the “sentimental ‘fragmentist’ approach” of her Sappho. Their charges pull in opposite directions, and Carson works in the narrow strip between them. The essay leaves one question open: whether a cry can be carried from one language into another without being explained on the way.

A broken marble head of a woman, mouth open as if crying out, with fire glowing through the cracks in the stone and sparks drifting from her lips
A cry and a gap in one fragment, made for the essay.

Read the full essay at Intellicurean →

Essays & Reviews for the Intellectually Curious

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY – OCTOBER 9, 2026

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘NOT HIS CIRCUS?’ – Why Republicans fear Trump’s rallies could harm not help their midterm chances….

With fewer than 30 days until the US midterm elections, Donald Trump seems determined to still be centre stage despite poll fears that after 3 November he may end up a lame-duck president as a Democratic blue wave sweeps the country. Our Washington bureau chief, David Smith, has been watching how the president is playing to Republican voters at the start of a blitz of cross-country rallies. It’s, at best, a mixed picture.

As David reports, Trump’s self-belief and message to voters to “pretend” his name is on the ballot reveal a man out of touch with ordinary Americans’ worries about the cost of living and whose promises that the war with Iran will soon be over ring ever more hollow. And then there are the candidates, more of whom are shying away from their earlier allegiances to a president whose approval ratings continue to slide.

Spotlight | An education crisis in France
As school and university protests intensify, Paris correspondent Angelique Chrisafis finds out why students feel the government is ignoring their complaints about the state of education

Spotlight | Green division and diversion
Peter Walker reports on the English and Welsh Green party’s annual conference in which a motion equating Zionism with racism was passed, and analyses how this reveals weaknesses in the way the party is run

Feature | The big business of porn
Why not analyse the porn industry just like any journalist would the oil business? That was the premise behind Patricia Nilsson’s new book. An approach that, as Amelia Gentleman finds out, yields new insights into how pornography’s imperatives have seeped into all our online lives

Opinion | Putin won’t bomb Ukraine into submission
Kyiv may now be under almost constant attack but, says Rajan Menon, history shows that bombing doesn’t crush morale

Culture | There’s beauty in bits and pieces
A novel exhibition in Florence puts broken sculptures on display and, as Philip Oltermann discovers, reveals their profound allure

BARRON’S MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 5, 2026

BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘A MARKET DIVIDED’ – Even with the S&P 500 near record highs, many stocks are struggling. We see opportunities.

A Divided Stock Market Looks Scary. It Could Be the Setup for a Serious Rally.

A yawning gap has opened up inside the stock market that to some looks like an abyss. We see an opportunity.

AI Agents Got Cash to Trade Stocks. Here’s What They Bought and Sold—Repeatedly.

An investor gave AI agents $500 each and provided the same daily prompt: Make as much money as you can. Stockbrokers don’t need to worry…yet.

Quantum Computing Is Having a Moment. What to Know About the Hottest Sector After AI.

Just a decade ago, it was nothing more than the dream of scientists in the lab. Recent advances by IBM, IonQ, Nvidia, and others illustrate the new promise of the complex technology. Investors are taking notice.

AI Will Revolutionize Medicine. This Company Provides the Plumbing.

Veeva Systems stock can rally by 30% over the next year.

The Stock Market Is Looking Ahead to Earnings Season—and It Likes What It Sees

Get out your trust rope and harness. Investors are once again climbing the proverbial wall of worry—and earnings season could provide the piton that supports the stock market’s next move higher.