Category Archives: Arts & Literature

APOLLO MAGAZINE – JULY/AUGUST 2026 PREVIEW

July/August 2026

APOLLO MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Once upon a time in America’; The New York Historical gets more democratic | does sculpture have a solid future? | the Musée du Quai Branly at 20 | Côte d’Ivoire’s supersized capital

The Czechs who brought cubism to architecture

For a brief period before the First World War, oblique angles and angular planes were all the rage in Prague

The American collectors for whom West is best

Artworks documenting the Wild West are becoming increasingly sought-after – and collectors are paying big bucks to lasso the best ones

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 26, 2026 PREVIEW

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features

Sexist, sexy or deadly serious?

Critical views of D. H. Lawrence’s notorious novel By Nicholas Murray

Summer books 2026

Thirty-four TLS writers share their holiday reading

Separate and equal

The Declaration of Independence at 250

Infinite test

A showily ingenious novel about the exploitation of attention

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 29, 2026 PREVIEW

The cover of the June 29 2026 issue of The New Yorker which features a museum visitor taking a selfie in front of a...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Tom Gauld’s “Landscape Portrait” – Scenic vacation selfies.

What Science Knows About Grief

After my husband’s death, I had never been more pliable, tender, open, or raw. It was then that I tried E.M.D.R. therapy. By Amanda Petrusich

The Difference Between the Knicks and the White House Cage Fight

Sports, spectacle, and what Juvenal would have made of this moment. By Adam Gopnik

The Teen Believers in a Christian America

For Charlie Kirk’s followers, faith and patriotism are intertwined.

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – JUNE 25, 2026 PREVIEW

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LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features

Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs by Alec Nevala-Lee
The First Fascist: The Life and Legacy of the Marquis de Morès by Sergio Luzzatto

Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev 
by Maxim Gorky, translated by Bryan Karetnyk


The Masquerade: 
A History of Extravagance and Intrigue by Meghan Kobza

THE PARIS REVIEW —- SUMMER 2026 ISSUE

THE PARIS REVIEW : The latest features Interviews, Prose, Poetry and Art….

Harryette Mullen on the Art of Poetry: “I knew I would exhaust myself as subject matter, but I could take something and turn it upside down, inside out, add a few doodads, and that way it would become inexhaustible.”

Yan Lianke on the Art of Fiction:  “I personally didn’t think there was anything anti-war in writing about how an individual might be terrified of battle. I was really writing about my own fear.”

Prose by Lucy Ellmann, Chad Fore, Daisy Hildyard, Chigozie Obioma, Daniel Saldaña París, and Shuang Xuetao.

Poetry by Zain Baweja, Jean Day, Hannah Piette, Frederick Seidel, Shamsher Bahadur Singh, Katana Smith, and Tran Hang My.

Art by Hadi Falapishi, Andrew Kuo, and Hannah Tishkoff; cover by Alex Da Corte.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 22, 2026 PREVIEW

The cover of the June 22 2026 issue of The New Yorker which depicts New York City bursting with color and excitement as...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “After the Comeback” – New Yorkers unite in hope.

Why Todd Blanche Should Not Be Attorney General

In a Senate that took its constitutional role seriously, Blanche would not win confirmation a second time. By Ruth Marcus

Ken Griffin’s Billions and Billions

The hedge-fund titan is an unabashed big spender—from pièds-a-terre to politics. By Gary Sernovitz

Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland

“We want Greenland,” Trump said. Four men sprang into action to make fantasy a reality. By Ben Taub

When Did White-Collar Work Start to Look So Bleak?

In the nineteen-eighties, an office job promised security and fulfillment. For graduates starting careers today, the prospect is often tinged with dread. By Molly Fischer

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 12, 2026 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Forcing our hand?’ – Edward Chancellor on nudge economics….

Hints of evidence

M. John Harrison’s anti-philosophy of the sublime By Nick Holdstock

Who she loved

Mourning a marriage and a creative partnership By Lily Herd

Right question, wrong answer

Cults and the longing for community By Harrison Hill

Hidden persuaders

When behavioural economics meets politics By Edward Chancellor

THE YALE REVIEW JOURNAL – SUMMER 2026 PREVIEW

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THE YALE REVIEW (March 11, 2025): The latest issue features a central folio, “What Was AI?,” exploring artificial intelligence through essays from Lauren Oyler, Christopher Sorrentino, and Melanie Mitchell. The issue also includes new memoirs and essays from Annie Ernaux and Namwali Serpell, alongside a visual portfolio by Vera Molnár.

Jagged Intelligence

The dangerous unknowns at the heart of LLMs by Melanie Mitchell

Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text

How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years by Kathryn Lofton

Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?

Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn’t new by Audrey Wollen

The Birthday Party No One Wants

Why Americans aren’t celebrating the semiquincentennial by Samuel Moyn

I am back in writing hell. As if each time I start writing, I have to go through the same hell again. Annie Ernaux Unpublished journal entries

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 15, 2026 PREVIEW

The cover of the June 15 2026 issue of The New Yorker on which Marco Rubio and J. D. Vance fight while Donald Trump...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Barry Blitt’s “Out Cold” – The South Lawn octagon.

Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse

How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women. By Heidi Blake

For the Nation’s Birthday, Making It Harder to Become an American

The Trump Administration has chosen to honor the Semiquincentennial of a nation of immigrants with a vision that sends the country back in time. By Jonathan Blitzer

For People with Misophonia, Everyday Noises Can Be Agony

The neurophysiological disorder is characterized by a severe aversion to sound—and the struggle to convince others of the severity of that aversion. By Sloane Crosley

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – JUNE 25, 2026

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Fintan O’Toole on The Emptiness of Greatness….

Gulliver’s Warning

Like Gulliver in Lilliput, “greatness” in the political realm depends on the existence of a group deemed puny or weak.