Tag Archives: Magazines

Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – August 5, 2024

A person and a small child are together on a beach.

The New Yorker (July 30, 2024): The latest issue features Gayle Kabaker’s “Beach Walk” – The artist captures a sweet moment shared by her daughter and granddaughter.

Kamala Harris Isn’t Going Back

Kamala Harris Isn’t Going Back

Fifty years after Shirley Chisholm ran for the Presidency, we find ourselves yet again questioning the durability of outmoded presumptions about race and gender. By Jelani Cobb

The Republican National Convention and the Iconography of Triumph

In Milwaukee, with a candidate who had just cheated death, the resentment rhetoric of Trump’s 2016 campaign gave way to an atmosphere of festive certainty. By Anthony Lane

Gillian Anderson’s Sex Education

She became famous playing buttoned-up Agent Scully. But in midlife her characters often have a strong erotic charge—and now she’s edited “Want,” a book of sexual fantasies. By Rebecca Mead

Research Preview: Science Magazine – July 26, 2024

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‘Science Magazine – July 18, 2024: The new issue features smoke from wildfires burning in Canada enveloped New York City, New York, in June of 2023, shown here in a photo of the Chrysler Building on 7 June.

U.S. back in the race to forge unknown elements

Atoms of element 116 show path to create element 120 and extend the periodic table

Fully built water-hunting Moon rover killed by NASA

VIPER cancellation shocks planetary scientists and puts commercial lunar delivery program on edge

Can scientists help corals by killing starfish?

Culling crown-of-thorns boosted coral cover on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Burned-up satellites are tainting the atmosphere

As private fleets grow, so do concerns about ozone-destroying effects of metal particles

The Economist Magazine – July 27, 2024 Preview

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The Economist Magazine (July 25, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Can She Win?’ – Joe Biden’s vice-president has an extraordinary opportunity. But she also has a mountain to climb

Can Kamala Harris win?

Joe Biden’s vice-president has an extraordinary opportunity. But she also has a mountain to climb

A global gold rush is changing sport

Fans may be cooling on the Olympics, but elsewhere technology is transforming how sport is watched

Don’t stop the buck

MAGA Republicans are wrong to seek a cheaper dollar

It is hard to cast America as a victim of the global financial system

Research: New Scientist Magazine – July 27, 2024

New Scientist Magazine (July 24, 2024): This issue features ‘The Smart Guide To Exercise’ – What is the quickest way to get fit?; How much exercise is too much?; What is lost and gained by working out online?; When is the best time to workout?….

What is the optimal amount of exercise and how much is too much?

If your gym instructor is an iPad, what is lost – and gained?

How to use psychology to hack your mind and fall in love with exercise

How fast do we get out of shape and is there a way to slow the loss?

How much exercise do children really need – and what type?

Watch bees defend their nest by slapping ants with their wings

Zombie galaxy came back to life after 20 million years

Chinese nuclear reactor is completely meltdown-proof

Shock discovery reveals deep sea nodules are a source of oxygen

Universe’s missing matter may be explained by galaxies leaking gas

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – July 26, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (July 24, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Generation Anxious’ – Jonathan Haidt’s bleak vision of modern childhood; Rebuilding broken Britain; The woman who stalked the world; German Expressionism at Tate Modern and Twisters..

Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – July 29, 2024

A man and a boy ride on a bicycle raising a French flag and an Olympic torch.

The New Yorker (July 22, 2024): The latest issue features Paul Rogers’s “Monsieur Hulot’s Olympics” – A French twist on the opening ceremony’s torch relay….

Where Do Republicans and Democrats Stand After the R.N.C.?

Biden imperilled his candidacy at the debate because of his inability to speak coherently. At the convention, Trump was doing something similar, and couldn’t stop. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Will Hezbollah and Israel Go to War?

Months of fighting at the border threaten to ignite an all-out conflict that could devastate the region.

Should We Abolish Prisons?

Our carceral system is characterized by frequent brutality and ingrained indifference. Finding a better way requires that we freely imagine alternatives. By Adam Gopnik

Cultural Views: The Drift Magazine – July 19, 2024

The Drift Magazine (July 19, 2024): The latest issue features Maybe fortresses come to violence like an addiction. Maybe the water is just water. The tide abandons what it leaves. We have absolutely no way of controlling the cane toad. “I love anyone who hears my screams.” You ever cry with that knowledge? Do they kiss on the mouth? What will the bears say? I am not yet a trampoline. No doors exist and nobody’s home. Simply because they are eternally young, beautiful, and dead.

Editors’ Note​|Walled Off

THE EDITORS

“History as It Is Happening”​|An Interview with Rachel Kushner

The Fortress University​|Protesting and Policing on Campus

ERIK BAKER

Time and Time Again​|Proust in the Age of Retranslation

SIMON LESER

The Ink in the Inkwell​|Literature of the Black Resort Town

MELVIN BACKMAN

No Atlanta Way​|Stop Cop City Meets the Establishment

SAM WORLEY

History Today Magazine – August 2024 Preview

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History Today (July 18, 2024) – The latest issue features ‘The Ethiopians who changed Rome’…

August 2024

A Dangerous Game on the Jacobean Stage

Original title page for A Game at Chess, 1624. Folger Shakespeare Library. Public Domain.

For nine days Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess was the greatest box office phenomenon of the English Renaissance. Then a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Japan, the West and the Treaty of Versailles

Japanese delegates to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. Standing (left to right): Hikokichi Ijūin and Keishirō Matsui; seated (left to right): Baron Makino Nobuaki, Prince Kinmochi Saionji and Viscount Sutemi Chinda. Library of Congress. Public Domain.

At the outset of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference Japan enjoyed a seat at the top table, but the vexed issue of racial equality set it and its notional Western allies on different paths.

Research Preview: Science Magazine – July 19, 2024

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‘Science Magazine – July 18, 2024: The new issue features ‘INSIDE OUT’ – Titanium dioxide dehydrogenates propane with help from buried nickel nanoparticles…

The benefits of GLP-1 drugs beyond obesity

Glucagon-like peptide–1–based medicines have weight loss–independent actions

A hard fruit to swallow

Foraging niches become more specialized toward bird range limits

Scientists at odds over wild plans to slow melting glaciers

Call to study glacial geoengineering stirs up “civil war” among polar scientists

World Archaeology – Aug/Sept 2024 Preview

WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY (July 18, 2024): The latest issude features ‘Pompeii’ – The biggest dig in a generation; AI and Archaeology – Reconstructing ancient landscapes; Creatures of The Nile – What animals did for Ancient Egypt…

Pompeii: Unearthing Insula 10

The biggest dig at Pompeii in a generation is working to expose nearly an entire block of the ancient city. Archaeologists are making astonishing discoveries that shed powerful new light on life and death in the shadow of Vesuvius, as…

Creatures of the Nile: What animals did for ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt owed many debts to the creatures that lived in and beside the Nile. Both wild and domesticated animals offered an abundance of food, raw materials, and inspiration. But…

Artificial intelligence rethinks the past: How computers are reconstructing Etruscan and Roman landscapes

What can artificial intelligence bring to archaeology? Maurizio Forte introduces recent work dedicated to reconstructing ancient landscapes, and weighs some of the risks and rewards.

Autoarchaeology at Christiansborg Castle: Digging into ancestral connections to the transatlantic slave trade

The discovery of an unsuspected family link to Christiansborg Castle, Ghana, led to a project examining a forgotten aspect of the transatlantic slave trade. Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann introduces us…