Tag Archives: October 2026

Arts & Literature, Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 5, 2026 PREVIEW

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Flower District” – An oasis in the middle of the city.

The President vs. the Press

Donald Trump’s behavior cannot be called unexpected at this point. What was noteworthy last week, however, was the way that the media responded. By Jelani Cobb

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

The quandary faced by government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice. By Eyal Press

Why America Looks the Way It Does

From vast grids to winding suburbs, Americans have spent two centuries remaking the landscape around property. By Daniel Immerwahr

How America Became Antifascist

Franklin D. Roosevelt was slow to confront the threat of Fascism. A new history explores how he—and the country—finally came around. By Beverly Gage

Arts & Literature, Fiction, Literature, Magazines, Poetry, Reviews

The London Magazine – October/November 2026

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THE LONDON MAGAZINE: Despair – its causes, symptoms and consequences – becomes something of a theme across the issue. At least according to its etymological root, to despair is to be without hope (de-sperare), and in Mavis Gallant’s 1965 story ‘Paola and Renata’, published in the issue, mothers have no hope of controlling their inscrutable, insolent daughters.

Review | Comfort and Its Discontents by Devki Panchmatia

‘While it must be stressed that Rankine’s lyric practice is capacious and stylistically thrilling, that her insights are always valuable in isolation, I am left slightly unsure of what Triage’s greater intentions are.’

Essay | The Scale Against Poetry: Tony Harrison’s Prose by Dane Holt

‘Partly due to critical neglect, partly due to the single-minded determination to be a poet who survived on nothing but his poetry, Harrison’s prose is doomed to be a footnote in his career.’

Essay | It’s a Devil of a Gap by Alex Niven

‘Might there be something, beyond backwater nihilism, in the vanishing of the Tree at Sycamore Gap that speaks to us about a country increasingly unable to protect its social and civic structures in the most basic ways?’

Business, Finance, Financial, Magazines, Politics

BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2026

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BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK MAGAZINE: ‘The President’s Man’ – Donald Trump is blowing up the global order. Marco Rubio is here to help.

Marco Rubio Remakes Himself as Trump’s Unapologetic Global Envoy

The secretary of state is executing the president’s wishes around the world, even when they contradict his past beliefs. What’s his long game?

Why Politicians From the Working Class Are Rare Around the World

Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.

The World’s Most Reliable AI Detector Has a Human Problem

Armed with a near-perfect detection tool, Pangram is fighting to convince the public AI cheating can be caught.

Government, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE AMERICAN PROSPECT MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2026

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The American Prospect: The latest issue features ‘ELECTION 2026′

Money Can’t Buy Me Votes

Republicans are going to try to solve their midterm problems with money. Good luck to them.

AI Safety Needs More Evidence and Less Fruitcake Speculation

Strange nerds distributing imaginary stories on the internet is no basis for a system of government.

Republicans Running Scared in the Rio Grande Valley

Trump’s economic and immigration policies have pushed South Texas voters away from the GOP, but that doesn’t mean they’ll vote blue no matter who.

Rideshare Drivers Want a Fair Hearing Before Losing Their Jobs

In Chicago, city data shows fewer than 4 percent of the more than 30,000 drivers removed from rideshare platforms were reinstated.

Magazines, Previews, Research, Reviews, Science

SCIENCE NEWS MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2026 PREVIEW

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SCIENCE NEWS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features “American Drought’ – The U.S. Southwest Is Running Out Of Water. Will Its Decades-Long Megadrought Ever End?

Will the U.S. megadrought ever end?

For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.By Nikk Ogasa

Big space mirrors could bring Earth on-demand light — and upend our night sky

Reflect Orbital satellites could make the darkest skies look like nighttime in the suburbs. By Lisa Grossman

How the body adapts to extreme heat

New methods could help vulnerable people acclimate to higher temperatures. By Katarina Zimmer

History, Magazines, Politics, Reviews

HISTORY TODAY MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2026 PREVIEW

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HISTORY TODAY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Hirohito’s return to Europe, the lost history of the Aztec Empire, the decline of the medieval Carolingians, the FBI and the Nazi Spies, and the 18th-century search for the soul.

The Lost History of the Aztec Empire

Before the Spanish conquest, the history of the Aztec Empire was recorded orally and with hieroglyphs. In danger of being lost or forgotten, Indigenous historians began to write it down.

When Hirohito Returned to Europe

Emperor Hirohito’s tour of Europe in 1971 made it painfully clear that the wounds of the Second World War had not healed.

The Decline of the Carolingians

The Carolingian Empire was consolidated by one of Europe’s most celebrated kings, but Charlemagne’s death meant that decline was inevitable.

The FBI and the Nazi Spies

In 1938 a sensational spy trial exposed a Nazi plot to seduce and blackmail US officers. Despite America’s technological might, counterintelligence had been slow on the uptake.

Why Does Academic History Matter?

The study of history at UK universities appears to be under existential threat. Should anyone care?

Arts & Literature, Books, History, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – OCTOBER 8, 2026

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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Drew Gilpin Faust’s analysis of historical approaches to slavery’s defenders, Ian Tattersall’s exploration of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s role in evolutionary science, and Ange Mlinko’s review of Lisa Robertson’s novel Flow Chart of Paris.

Nothing Stays Buried

Nancy Lemann sets her sad screwball novels of manners in the closed-off world of upper-crust white New Orleans that she grew up in.

Lives of the Saints by Nancy Lemann, with an introduction by Geoff Dyer

The Ritz of the Bayou by Nancy Lemann, with an introduction by James Wolcott and an afterword by the author

The Oyster Diaries by Nancy Lemann

Devils in America

The lessons that Donald Trump learned from Roy Cohn—lie, cheat, engage in unlimited corruption—now shape official government policy in the US.

American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark

De Kooning Draws a Picture

Willem de Kooning’s works on paper document his efforts to find ways of retaining both image and abstraction, depth and flatness.

Willem de Kooning Drawing an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, June 14–September 20, 2026, and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, October 9, 2026–January 17, 2027

‘Writing on One Table’

Charles Lamb’s camp, mischievous, melancholic alter ego, Elia, owes much to his sister, Mary, with whom he lived for forty years, absorbing her “rambling chat.”