LITERARY REVIEW : The latest issue features ‘What the New World did for Us’
An Epic for the Ages
The Odyssey By Christopher Nolan (dir)
LITERARY REVIEW MAGAZINE – AUGUST 2026 PREVIEW
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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – AUGUST 10, 2026 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Eric Drooker’s “Outside Art” – A reprieve from the city’s chaos.
The Future, Made in China
Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications. By Evan Osnos
The Failures of the Fauci Hearing
Senator Rand Paul may have approached the matter with theatrics and ill will, but Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision not to testify was a loss. By Amy Davidson Sorkin
How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything
The lawyer who showed an outer-borough striver how to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media. By Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – AUGUST 20, 2026
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…
Artful Weaving
The most authentic thing about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is its densely braided narrative, but its tormented hero sounds like the heroes of Christopher Nolan movies.
Whose Party?
As Democratic Socialists rack up primary victories, the moderate wing of the Democratic Party looks increasingly out of touch.
Trump’s Constitutional Dictatorship
Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s inside account of the Trump administration portrays a president with a vast appetite for power but who repeatedly backs down when the costs of his actions become too high.
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Out of the Rubble
In novels written immediately after World War II, Wolfgang Koeppen mined the conscience of Germany.
Pigeons on the Grass by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
The Hothouse by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann, with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra
Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann, with an introduction by Joshua Cohen
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – AUGUST 3, 2026 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “Repose” – Soaking up the sun. By Françoise Mouly
Which Way Should the Democratic Party Go Now?
It’s been a tumultuous primary season, but is this the Democrats’ Tea Party moment? Or is something more pragmatic emerging? By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
How Netanyahu’s Top General Became His Strongest Challenger
Gadi Eisenkot, whose view of war is shaped by the loss of his son, is, in manner and character, the anti-Bibi. By David Remnick
The Men Who Made Theory French
French theory, as taught in American classrooms, has acquired a reputation of forbidding difficulty and hauteur. A new history seeks to surface its human side. By Dayna Tortorici
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JULY 24, 2026 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Emily Brontë’s mysterious power’….
Uncloistered
Oxbridge in the postwar world By Richard Vinen
Freeing life from facts
The awesome, mysterious work of Emily Brontë By Claire Harman
All very hush-hush
Silence in literature By Daniel Karlin
Feel good philosophy
Should human life have a purpose? By Crispin Sartwell
THE HUDSON REVIEW MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2026
THE HUDSON REVIEW: The latest issue features….
2025 SHORT FICTION CONTEST
First Prize: The Unmeasurable by Pegah Ouji
Second Prize: The Nearer Realm by Rebecca Kilroy
ESSAYS
Remembering Emily Grosholz (1950–2026) by David Mason
Turn, Turn, Tumble: Similes, and Shipwrecks, and the Sea by Carol Dougherty
MEMOIR
Journey to a Novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina, Guillermo Bleichmar, trans.
FICTION
Restos by Mark Jacobs
POETRY
Citizens of the Wind; The Salt Waking; A Drawn-Out Anxious Sense; The Extinction of the Dinosaurs by David Mason
Trying to Write a First Love Poem at Seventy; For the Earth Dwellers by Brian Culhane
At the Grave of Tiem Duc Bui; Woman Raking Leaves in Barry Park; Late Bedtime Story; Camden, 1969 (After Borges) by Charles Martin
In Wilkins’ by Daniel Tobin
Ascension; Tongue-Tie by Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi
The Deer Mouse Berates Me; Sox in the Underworld by Joan Murray
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JULY 27, 2026 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Spa Day,” by Marcellus Hall.
Trump’s War on Journalists
The recent subpoenas of reporters make clear that the President is trying to threaten the press. Few protections are in place to stop him. By Ruth Marcus
How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran
Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu.
María Corina Machado’s Opposition in Exile
The Venezuelan politician hoped to become her country’s leader with help from the U.S. The Trump Administration had other priorities. By Stephania Taladrid
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JULY 20, 2026 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Jonathan Blitzer on ICE’s biggest detention center, Zach Helfand on steroids, Jessica Contreras on a family intertwined with A.I., and more.
An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like
Under a new proposal, Administration officials could deny government grants to any group or project on the ground that it didn’t fit the President’s agenda. By Elizabeth Kolbert
When A.I. Is a Member of the Family
A single mom, her two daughters, and the chatbots that fill in the gaps. By Jessica Contrera
Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center
On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design. By Jonathan Blitze
The Lost Art of the Bromance
New books, articles, and shows lament a crisis of connection among American men. But the picture of friendship that emerges can feel romanticized and brittle. By Katy Waldman
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – JULY 23, 2026
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…
An Uncertain Triumphalism
America’s centennial in 1876 was celebrated with a grand exhibition that projected an image of national unity and inventiveness in the anxious aftermath of civil war and recession.
Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future by Fergus M. Bordewich
Hungary: The Flood
Peter Magyar’s landslide electoral victory in April made clear that after sixteen years, Hungarians were tired of Viktor Orbán.
Space Oddity
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism examines how Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, by selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit.
Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff
Song of Our Cells
Though a mystery to Darwin in his lifetime, the constant mutation of our genes is what allows for life’s magnificent diversity.
Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health by Roxanne Khamsi
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JULY 10, 2026 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features Allen Ginsberg at 100; Shere Hite and the female pleasure principle; Shakespeare’s politics…
Best of enemies
The Iranian regime’s long confrontation with America By Azadeh Moaveni
Allen Ginsberg at 100
Poet, counterculture critic and self-promoter By Douglas Field
Getting real
Do objects exist independently of human experience? By Emily Herring
Forgotten feminist
How Shere Hite put women’s pleasure first By Angela Saini
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