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LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – JUNE 25, 2026 PREVIEW
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THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY —- JUNE 19, 2026 PREVIEW
Claudia Sheinbaum must be doing something right. With a consistent approval rating of around 70% since becoming Mexico’s president in 2024, the former climate scientist – and protege of her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador – is the world’s most popular leftwing leader. She is also the first female leader of one of Latin America’s most macho countries.
Yet despite her soaring popularity, driven in part by major universal healthcare reforms, there is a curious tension between Sheinbaum’s disciplined, scientific approach to governing and the messy, often violent politics of modern Mexico. Her handling of the country’s ongoing crisis of disappearances, the continuing influence of organised crime and the rising presence of the army in national life are all issues she has faced criticism over.
The big story | Counting the cost of the war on Iran
With a peace deal expected to be signed later this week, Oliver Holmes examines the human, economic and environmental toll of a conflict that appears to have achieved nothing
Science | How the loss of wild bees impacts human health
Crops and flowers rely on them for survival, but wild bees are declining – and crucial nutrients will go missing from our diets as a result. Gloria Dickie reports
Feature | How personal taste fell out of fashion
Our favourite music, clothes and books used to be markers of individuality – but algorithms have made us all sheep. Rachel Aroesti meets the style rebels fighting back
Opinion | If Kyiv has really got Putin on the run, he won’t accept peace meekly
Don’t expect the Russian president to pursue peace, says Simon Tisdall – instead, he could continue to expand the war beyond Ukraine’s borders, with dire risks for us all
Culture | The revolutionary art of David Hockney
Guardian critic Jonathan Jones pays tribute to the artist whose work was a feast of visual pleasures
THE PARIS REVIEW —- SUMMER 2026 ISSUE
THE PARIS REVIEW : The latest features Interviews, Prose, Poetry and Art….
Harryette Mullen on the Art of Poetry: “I knew I would exhaust myself as subject matter, but I could take something and turn it upside down, inside out, add a few doodads, and that way it would become inexhaustible.”
Yan Lianke on the Art of Fiction: “I personally didn’t think there was anything anti-war in writing about how an individual might be terrified of battle. I was really writing about my own fear.”
Prose by Lucy Ellmann, Chad Fore, Daisy Hildyard, Chigozie Obioma, Daniel Saldaña París, and Shuang Xuetao.
Poetry by Zain Baweja, Jean Day, Hannah Piette, Frederick Seidel, Shamsher Bahadur Singh, Katana Smith, and Tran Hang My.
Art by Hadi Falapishi, Andrew Kuo, and Hannah Tishkoff; cover by Alex Da Corte.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE ———- JUNE 15, 2026 PREVIEW
BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Nestle Stock Is Ready To Rally’ – After a long slump, the food giant is finding its sweet spot. An alternative to tech?
Nestlé Finds Its Sweet Spot. How the New CEO Is Turning the Food Giant Around.
Philipp Navratil aims to restart growth in the 160-year-old food giant by focusing on core brands like KitKat, Fancy Feast, and Nespresso.
AI Stocks Underestimate the Technology’s Potential, Says This Tech Investor
Brian Barbetta, co-head of technology investing at Wellington Management, is betting on Nvidia, ASML, and Samsara.
The Great, Big, Boring SpaceX IPO
In the end, the space company’s debut was relatively mundane.
Forget ‘Too Big to Fail.’ How ‘Community’ Became the Most Controversial Word in Banking.
Regulators, lawmakers, and consumer groups are fighting over what it means to be a community bank. The debate has implications for lenders and borrowers everywhere.
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY —- JUNE 12, 2026 PREVIEW
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘How the World Cup beacame an $80bn behemoth’
It’s long been a golden rule of sport that football World Cups get bigger and badder every four years. The latest edition of the tournament, however, may put that universal law to the test after a six-week journey through Trump’s America, which is expected to generate $80bn of global economic output through its full timeline.
As the world’s biggest sporting event meets the world’s biggest market, it’s hard to see how even the World Cup can get much more bloated than this. But if anyone can make it happen it’s Gianni Infantino, the opportunist Fifa overlord who has schmoozed with the planet’s most divisive leaders to extract maximum gains from his travelling global roadshow. As Barney Ronay says in his tournament scenesetter for our cover story this week, welcome to the heart of darkness.
The big story | How the murder of Henry Nowak shook Britain
The aftermath of a tragedy revealed a country grappling with how easily such events can be co‑opted into a far-right rallying cry. Libby Brooks reports
Technology | Can autonomous AI killer drones be taught morality?
While the technology is set to play a growing role in modern warfare, there remains an unresolved ethical challenge. Dan Milmo and Aisha Down size up the terrain
Feature | Hello, goodbye: inside the final Beatles tour
By the mid-1960s, the Beatles were ready to quit touring for good. A new collection of pictures by rock photographer Jim Marshall captures their last gigs. With a foreword by Ian Leslie
Opinion | Trump’s failure to maintain ceasefires is part of the new world disorder
The US president brags about ending wars but look at Ukraine, Gaza, Iran and Lebanon to see what his casual disregard for diplomacy and obsession with instant results have achieved, argues Simon Tisdall
Culture | The ruthlessness and redemption of Rupert Everett
The 67-year-old actor lied to his partners, disrespected his audiences and betrayed his friends. But has this indiscreet, unreliable heartbreaker finally grown up and settled down? Simon Hattenstone went to find out
THE YALE REVIEW JOURNAL – SUMMER 2026 PREVIEW
THE YALE REVIEW (March 11, 2025): The latest issue features a central folio, “What Was AI?,” exploring artificial intelligence through essays from Lauren Oyler, Christopher Sorrentino, and Melanie Mitchell. The issue also includes new memoirs and essays from Annie Ernaux and Namwali Serpell, alongside a visual portfolio by Vera Molnár.
Jagged Intelligence
The dangerous unknowns at the heart of LLMs by Melanie Mitchell
Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text
How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years by Kathryn Lofton
Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?
Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn’t new by Audrey Wollen
The Birthday Party No One Wants
Why Americans aren’t celebrating the semiquincentennial by Samuel Moyn
I am back in writing hell. As if each time I start writing, I have to go through the same hell again. Annie Ernaux Unpublished journal entries
BARRON’S MAGAZINE ———- JUNE 8, 2026 PREVIEW
Big Money Powers the Biggest Sporting Event Ever
The 2026 World Cup, to be played in North America, has been called the equivalent of 104 Super Bowls in a month. Who stands to gain—and what it will cost fans.
The World Cup Is Sports Betting’s Biggest Moment—and Maybe Its Last Hurrah
Gamblers are expected to wager $50 billion on the coming World Cup, but signs of betting fatigue are emerging across the U.S.
Goldman Is Priced Like a Tech Stock. Investors Can Find Better Deals Elsewhere.
While the fundamental outlook at Goldman looks as good as ever, the stock already reflects that. The shares look pricey relative to peers based on key metrics.
The Navy Makes Our Economy Float. Iran Is a Dark Cloud.
The emergence of military drones in the 21st century could undermine the importance of naval supremacy.
Elon Musk’s $1.8 Trillion SpaceX IPO Is Too Big to Succeed
While the company is spectacular, the stock is too expensive to justify the risks.
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY —- JUNE 5, 2026 PREVIEW
Last week, as the war in Iran continued to choke global oil supplies, the UK government announced a 13% increase in the cap on energy prices. But it was another related story on the other side of the world that caught my eye.
In Australia, the energy minister announced a fall of up to 10% in the benchmark electricity price in parts of the country, driven by record levels of renewables and batteries in the power grid.
Australia was already a world leader in domestic solar power. But with little fanfare, it is also pioneering a revolution in home renewables and battery usage, proving that with the right policy initiatives, profound changes can be made to the ways energy markets work.
Five essential reads in this week’s edition
The big story | Is the Iran war Trump’s Vietnam moment?
The current Middle East conflict has been far shorter than the war that defined the 1960s and early 1970s, but it has rapidly revealed the strategic weakness of US firepower in an interconnected world, argues Patrick Wintour
Health | Cancer breakthroughs from the world’s largest oncology conference
From groundbreaking genomic tests to tumour-shrinking injections, health editor Andrew Gregory reports from the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting in Chicago
Feature | The people fighting back against pothole-riddled roads
The dire state of roads has provoked pothole vigilantes and become a political flashpoint from Manchester to Manhattan. How did we get here? Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports
Opinion | If you’re still on Elon Musk’s X, ask yourself this: why?
Some argue that quitting the platform formerly known as Twitter cedes the space to malign actors. But it’s an open sewer, beyond redemption, says Jonathan Liew
Culture | Children’s illustrators on the art of storytelling
From The Twits to The Gruffalo and an angry bear in search of his hat … famous illustrators talk to Stuart Heritage about how they bring children’s books to life
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – JUNE 25, 2026
Gulliver’s Warning
Like Gulliver in Lilliput, “greatness” in the political realm depends on the existence of a group deemed puny or weak.
LITERARY REVIEW MAGAZINE – JUNE 2026 PREVIEW
LITERARY REVIEW : The latest issue features Peter Moore on George Forster * Anne Perkins on the Balfour family * William Whyte on British dons * Ian Thomson on the fall of the USSR * Joe Moshenska on Spinoza * Jeremy Treglown on Juan Carlos of Spain * D J Taylor on Henrietta Moraes * Howard Davies on recession * Martin Vander Weyer on Goldman Sachs * Piers Brendon on disinformation * Richard Vinen on Kissinger * Bettina Bildhauer on medieval health * John Mullan on Emily Brontë* Joseph Hone on Jonathan Swift * Duncan Fallowell on Lady Chatterley *
The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity
By Andrea Wulf
An exemplary tour of the High Enlightenment might go something like this. You’d begin in the streets of 1760s London to feel the pulse of Georgian commerce. You’d then hop aboard one of Captain Cook’s colliers and cruise through the Pacific, having encounters every day. Returning to Europe you might watch Benjamin Franklin in diplomatic action at Passy and dine with Casanova in Vienna, before sailing up the Rhine with Humboldt. Having inspected the Soho Manufactory in Birmingham and admired the picturesque scenery of the Peak District, you’d cross the Channel just in time for the grand and bloody finale in Paris.
Twilight of the Dons: British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism
By Colin Kidd
Arriving as an undergraduate at Cambridge in 1961, Terry Eagleton was both overawed and underwhelmed by his supervisor, a man he calls Greenway in his memoir. ‘Greenway was the first truly civilised man I had ever encountered,’ Eagleton recalls.
This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë
By Deborah Lutz
We know so little about Emily Brontë. There are just a few snapshots, like the vivid recollection of her sister Charlotte’s great friend Ellen Nussey: ‘Her extreme reserve seemed impenetrable, yet she was intensely loveable … one of her rare expressive looks was something to remember through life, there was such a depth of soul and feeling..
