DRIFT MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2025 LITERARY PREVIEW
Monthly Archives: June 2025
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – JULY/AUGUST 2025 PREVIEW
Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys?
We’re starting to give AI agents real autonomy, and we’re not prepared for what could happen next.
Is this the electric grid of the future?
In Nebraska, a publicly owned utility deftly tackles the challenges of delivering on reliability, affordability, and sustainability.
Namibia wants to build the world’s first hydrogen economy
Can the vast and sparsely populated African country translate its renewable power potential into national development?
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 27, 2025 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (June 25, 2025): In this week’s TLS , If all Russian writers are supposed to have come out of Gogol’s Overcoat, then “all American literature”, according to Ernest Hemingway, “comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn”. James Marcus reviews Ron Chernow’s 1,200-page biography of Twain – the Great American Novel seems fated to be twinned with the Great American Door-Stopper.
Inventing a history
How Stalin shaped the Soviet collective memory By Bryan Karetnyk
‘A dear little genius’
Mark Twain and the making of an American literary revolution By James Marcus
Triumph at Camp David, disaster in Iran
Jimmy Carter’s abrasive foreign policy adviser and rival to Henry Kissinger By Edward N. Luttwak
THE NEW YORK TIMES – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2025
Trump Officials Push Back Against U.S. Report on Iran’s Nuclear Program
President Trump’s administration contradicted a preliminary report that suggested U.S. strikes did not significantly set back Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
A New Political Star Emerges Out of a Fractured Democratic Party
The emergence of Zohran Mamdani is likely to divide national Democrats, who are already torn about what the party should stand for.
Trump Lashes Out at Spain as NATO Leaders Make Spending Pledge, With a Caveat
President Trump had demanded that members raise their military spending. He criticized Spain after it pushed back on the demand.
U.K. Says It’s Buying 12 F-35A Stealth Jets That Can Carry Nuclear Weapons
The decision means that Britain’s air force will have a nuclear role for the first time since the end of the Cold War.
THE PARIS REVIEW – SUMMER 2025 LITERARY PREVIEW
THE PARIS REVIEW (June 24, 2025):
Fanny Howe on the Art of Poetry: “If I could say I was assigned something at birth, it would be to keep the soul fresh and clean, and to not let anything bring it down.”
Marie NDiaye on the Art of Fiction: “Oh, no! Reading beautiful books can’t be traumatizing. Seeing awful things can be—but reading? I don’t believe in that at all.”
Prose by Anuk Arudpragasam, Tom Crewe, GauZ’, Zans Brady Krohn, and Joy Williams.
Poetry by Will Alexander, John Berryman, Yongyu Chen, Eugene Ostashevsky, Ricardo Reis, and Nell Wright.
Art by Anne Collier, Celia Paul, and Alessandro Teoldi; cover by Tyler Mitchell.
COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE – JUNE 25, 2025 PREVIEW
COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Hearts of Stone’ – Why we love our ancient sites…
We’re still standing
Tom Howells explores the mystery and magnetism of the thousands of ancient British monoliths and monuments, from Cornwall to the Orkneys
Going down in a blazer of glory
It is a favourite of royalty and rowers, worn from Augusta to the Oscars — can there be a more versatile jacket than the blazer, asks Harry Pearson
Country Life International
• Russell Higham uncovers the secret society of Cascais
• Holly Kirkwood finds the age of chivalry alive and well in Valletta
• Matthew Dennison searches for traces of the Venetian Empire in Greece
• Tom Parker Bowles savours superb Spanish dishes
• Eileen Reid tracks the influence of two intellectual giants of Avignon
Winging it
Mark Cocker welcomes the renaissance of the peregrine falcon, a raptor that stoops to conquer at up to 240mph
New series: Scale model
Overfishing threatens the very existence of the cod, but Gadus morhua remains a monster of the deep for David Profumo
Dick Bird’s favourite painting
The stage designer chooses a monumental example of early-19th-century political art
The virtues of history
John Goodall celebrates 100 years of the headquarters of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, one of London’s Great Twelve City Livery Companies
The legacy
Leslie Hore-Belisha created a beacon of hope for road users everywhere, finds Kate Green
Luxury
Anniversary jewels and Art Deco delights with Hetty Lintell, plus Willow Crossley’s favourite things
Interiors
Arabella Youens admires the kitchen of a house in the Scottish Borders and considers the earthly pleasures of terracotta
Laying ghosts to rest
A spectacular garden now graces the grounds of the old Somerset-shire Coal Canal Company HQ, as Caroline Donald discovers
Water, water everywhere
John Lewis-Stempel delves into the depths of a field pond, mesmerised by the seemingly endless variety of aquatic life
Arts & antiques
A quartet of journeys with The King raised the profile of plein-air artist Warwick Fuller, who talks Royal Tours with Carla Passino
Making an impression
French Impressionism was a slow burner in Britain as Monet and Pissarro gradually influenced our art scene, reveals Caroline Bugler
And much more
FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE – JULY/AUGUST 2025 PREVIEW
FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE (June 24, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Who Needs Allies?’….
Dispensable Nation
America in a Post-American World by Kori Schake
Beware the Europe You Wish For
The Downsides and Dangers of Allied Independence by Celeste A. Wallander
The Case for a Pacific Defense Pact
America Needs a New Asian Alliance to Counter China by Ely Ratner
India’s Great-Power Delusions
How New Delhi’s Grand Strategy Thwarts Its Grand Ambitions by Ashley J. Tellis
THE NEW YORK TIMES – TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2025
Trump Lashes Out at Israel and Iran as Fragile Truce Is Tested
President Trump suggested that both countries had continued fighting despite a cease-fire. He warned Israel that further attacks would be a “major violation.”
Can Iran, Israel and the U.S. Now All Claim to Have Won?
Iran’s response to the attacks on its nuclear facilities killed no Americans and each nation has a victory narrative. But a cease-fire appeared tenuous on Tuesday.
Behind Closed Doors, Harvard Officials Debate a Risky Truce With Trump
The university is trying to avoid the appearance of appeasement, something other institutions that made deals with President Trump found impossible.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 30, 2025 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (June 23, 2025): The latest issue cover features ‘Christoph Niemann’s “The Bridge”’ – Crossing over the water. By Françoise Mouly Art by Christoph Niemann
Donald Trump and the Iran Crisis
It’s not easy to trust the President to make an optimal decision. For one thing, he is suspicious of nearly every source of information save his own instincts. By David Remnick
The DOGEfather Part II
Joe Gebbia, a RISD grad and an Airbnb billionaire, may soon lead the federal cost-cutting effort known as DOGE. Could there be clues to his methods in his art-school days? By Charles Bethea
How Donald Trump Got NATO to Pay Up
The Administration is strong-arming European nations to do more on behalf of their own defense. Is the strategy working? By Joshua Yaffa
THE NEW YORK TIMES – MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2025
Inside Trump’s Decision to Strike Iran
President Was Aided by Political and Military Ruses
When Israel began its assault on Iran, President Trump kept his distance. But within days he was on a path that led to an extensive bombing mission.
Iran’s Nuclear Dreams May Survive Even a Devastating American Blow
Israel Pounds Tehran Amid Growing Calls for De-Escalation
Israel said it had targeted a paramilitary headquarters and a notorious prison in Tehran, along with access routes to the Fordo nuclear site. The strikes came as Iran’s foreign minister met with a key ally, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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