LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – JUNE 5, 2025 PREVIEW
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The New York Times Magazine – May 12, 2025
Can Whitney Wolfe Herd Make Us Love Dating Apps Again?
The Bumble CEO has returned to run the struggling company she founded, and says she has a plan for getting Gen Z back By Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Why Do More Police Officers Die by Suicide Than in the Line of Duty?
His friend and fellow cop killed himself. Then he nearly became a statistic as well. Why do more police officers die by suicide than in the line of duty? By Jamie ThompsonCreditDanny Wilcox Frazier for The New York Times
The Surprising Ways That Siblings Shape Our Lives
Parents try everything to influence their children. But new research suggests brothers and sisters have their own profound impact. By Susan Dominus
The $200 Billion Gamble: Bill Gates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation
In a wide-ranging interview, he explains his decision —
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – MAY 29, 2025
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (May 8, 2025): The latest issue features…
‘There’s Nothing for Me Here’
What caused Venezuela’s collapse, and who is responsible? A recent memoir tells the story as so many families have lived it.
Motherland: The Disintegration of a Family in a Collapsed Venezuela by Paula Ramón, with translations by Julia Sanches and Jennifer Shyue
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela by William Neuman
The Spy in the Jeu de Paume
The detailed information gathered by the French curator Rose Valland about the Nazis’ looting of artworks made it possible for the Allies to recover tens of thousands of them after World War II.
The Art Front: The Defense of French Collections, 1939–1945 by Rose Valland, translated from the French by Ophélie Jouan, with a foreword by Robert M. Edsel
Doing Their Own Research
An electoral coalition of the conspiracy cultures of both the Christian right and the countercultural left helped bring Donald Trump back to power, and now pseudoscience and paranoia are in the ascendant.
Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker
Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists and the New Order in Wellness by Stewart Home
NATURE MAGAZINE – MAY 8, 2025 RESEARCH PREVIEW
NATURE MAGAZINE (May 7, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Relative Gains’ – Complete genome sequences for six ape species offer insights into human evolution…
Storm of seizures in a baby’s brain calms after trial therapy
The treatment, which aimed to block production of a mutant protein, reduced the frequency of infant’s seizures, but did not improve neurological impairments.
Tattoo-making tools used by ancient Maya revealed
The stone fragments had been discovered inside ‘Handprint Cave’ in Belize alongside other artefacts suggestive of ritual use.
One of the world’s richest lithium deposits began inside a mega-volcano
Lithium that pooled in a volcanic caldera in the western United States had no way out, thanks to a lack of rivers.
For these bats, eavesdropping is a valuable learnt skill
Over time, young fringe-lipped bats learn how to distinguish the calls of palatable frogs from those of toxic ones.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – MAY 9, 2025 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (May 7, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Other America’ – The Hispanic Achievement…
Putting the blame on Spain
Why Anglo-American colonialism has no claim to moral superiority
Behind the velvet rope
The former editor of Vanity Fair looks back on an era of excess
Night visions
Fantastic gloomth: Victor Hugo the artist
The Spectator World Magazine – June 2025
THE SPECTATOR WORLD (May 6, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Reviving of the American Mind’…
The reviving of the American mind
For too long, academia has stifled intellectual originality
Keep AI ghouls out of the classroom
What if your first encounter with Shakespeare or Herman Melville was with an AI avatar in history class?
The Palisades, reimagined
You can see how wrecked the place is, and how temporarily low the de jure population – but the clean-up and rebuilding are well under way
The Trump administration is giving us excellence, not equity
We may not be in a golden age, but we can see one on the horizon
Wokeism is stifling thought in America’s universities
What if your first encounter with Shakespeare or Herman Melville was with an AI avatar in history class?
Literary Review – May 2025 Arts & Books Preview
LITERARY REVIEW (May 1, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Mad About Diana’…
Kind Hearts & Coronets
Dianaworld: An Obsession By Edward White
Descartes Be Damned
Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World By Graham Tomlin
Start the Presses!
Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books By Eric Marshall White
The European Review Of Books – Spring 2025
THE EUROPEAN REVIEW OF BOOKS (May 1, 2025): The latest issue features …Around the world in strawberry red. Schengen’s pseudo-borderless « Europe ». A day in Minsk & an eternity at the border. A trip through Syria’s now-uninhabited terror apparatus (archivists needed). Cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, agricultural-novelists in Switzerland & France, tree-huggers in The Hague…
Double negative
Our first piece from Issue Eight, out from behind the paywall! « It’s best to go into Schengen’s history unshocked by contradiction. by George Blaustein
The shortest, longest bus trip
Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border. Paula Domingo Pasarin
On learning to hate chickens
Two novelists (one Swiss, one Spanish) sign up for agricultural jobs. Tania Roettger
Bethlehem, Jericho & a view of Jerusalem
A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities. by Karim Kattan
The Economist Magazine —- May 3, 2025 Preview
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (May 1, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Taiwan test‘….
A superpower crunch over Taiwan is coming
China has a new chance to call America’s bluff
Investors’ risky bet: they can shrug off the trade war
The relief they are banking on needs to come fast
India must prove Pakistan’s complicity in the attack in Kashmir
It would then have every right to strike back
The Guardian Weekly – May 2, 2025 – Politics Preview
The North America edition showcases Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, who achieved a remarkable victory in Monday’s federal election. As our reporter in Ottawa Leyland Cecco explains, Carney reversed a huge Liberal party poll deficit after voters backed him over his conservative opponent, Pierre Poilievre, to stand up to the threats of Donald Trump. Can the dour but tough former central banker succeed in fending off the aggressive advances of his US counterpart?
The big story | Kharkiv suffers in the shadow of a peace deal
While US-led negotiations threaten to carve up Ukraine, deadly Russian attacks continue amid deep cynicism about the process. Luke Harding reports from a city under siege
Science | Why f ish farms on the moon aren’t such a wild idea
The Lunar Hatch project is studying whether aquaculture might be able to provide a source of protein for astronauts on space missions. Kim Willsher paid them a visit
Feature | The dirtiest race in Olympic history
How did the 2012 Olympics women’s 1500m get its reputation? Athletes cheated out of medals talk to Esther Addley about what happened – and how the results unravelled
Opinion | Will Pope Francis’s compassionate legacy endure?
Some, especially within the US, see the forthcoming conclave as an opportunity to establish a more conservative leader, says Guardian associate editor Julian Coman
Culture | The genius of Barrie Kosky and his Wagner phantasmagoria
He put Carmen in a gorilla suit and had Das Rheingold’s Erda represented by a naked elderly woman. What are the the opera director’s plans for his edge-of-the-seat Die Walküre? Fiona Maddocks finds out
