DRIFT MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2025 LITERARY PREVIEW
Category Archives: Culture
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
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE – JUNE 21, 2025
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 6.22.25 Issue features Kevin Roose and Casey Newton on everyone using A.I.; Susan Dominus on creating A.I. avatars of loved ones; Bill Wasik on how A.I. will change the way history is written; Robert Capps on the jobs for humans A.I. will create; Charley Locke on the patterns A.I. can see in human behavior; Kim Tingley on therapy chatbots; and more.
How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost
The inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.
What to Know About the Transgender Rights Movement’s Supreme Court Gamble
A Times examination shows how a landmark case about gender-affirming care for minors was built on flawed politics and uncertain science.
By Nicholas Confessore
Kids Are in Crisis. Could Chatbot Therapy Help?
A number of companies are building A.I. apps for patients to talk to when human therapists aren’t available.
By Kim Tingley
A.I. Can Already See You in Ways You Can’t See Yourself
Some of the technology’s most startling new abilities lie in its perception of humans.
By Charley Locke
Harper’s Magazine ——- July 2025 Preview
Shadow of a Doubt
How OCD came to haunt American life by Andrew Kay
Lost Tribes of the South Pacific
How a band of island nations became Israel’s staunchest defenders by Pete McKenzie
The Geological Sublime
Butterflies, deep time, and climate change by Lewis Hyde
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE – JULY 2025 PREVIEW
Inside America’s Death Chambers
What years of witnessing executions taught me about sin, mercy, and the possibility of redemption by Elizabeth Bruenig
Inside the Exclusive, Obsessive, Surprisingly Litigious World of Luxury Fitness
How Tracy Anderson built an exercise empire by Xochitl Gonzalez
The Talented Mr. Vance
J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power. by George Packer
HARVARD MAGAZINE – JULY/AUGUST 2025
HARVARD MAGAZINE (June 17, 2025): The latest issue features ‘It’s On’…
The Standoff: Harvard’s Future in the Balance
“The stakes are so high that we have no choice but to fight,” says Garber.
Harvard’s Standoff: The Fight’s Key Players
The people shaping the battle over federal funding, international students, and DEI
by Nina Pasquini
Harvard’s Standoff: The Financial Stakes
Putting Harvard’s $53 billion endowment into perspective
by Jonathan Shaw
Meet the Lawyers Behind the Harvard v. Trump Lawsuit
A roster of lawyers on both sides
by Max J. Krupnick
MOMENT MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2025 ISSUE
MOMENT MAGAZINE (June 16, 2025): The Summer Double Issue 2025 features ‘What’s Changed Since 1975?’; Time traveling with Moment and 50 years of art & food….
Anniversary Essay | Time Traveling with Moment
What has happened during the last 50 years that would have surprised most American Jews in 1975? What challenges lie ahead?
Opinion | Tranquility Will Have to Wait
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 23, 2025 PREVIEW
President Trump’s Military Games
Trump, always attracted to playing the role of the strongman, is even more inclined than he was in his first term to misuse the military for his own political gratification. By Ruth Marcus
New York to ICE: “G.T.F.O.”
As protests against Trump’s immigration raids spread nationwide, a crowd gathered in lower Manhattan—complete with bullhorns, balloons, and a toy doughnut to bait the cops. By Adam Iscoe
What Did Elon Musk Accomplish at DOGE?
Even before Musk fell out with Donald Trump, the agency’s projected savings had plummeted. But he nevertheless managed to inflict lasting damage to the federal government. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
JACOBIN MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2025 PREVIEW
JACOBIN MAGAZINE (June 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Speculation’ – The house always wins…
“In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but everyone hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.”
— Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867)
“Along with a lot of worthless nonsense, the bubbles of the 1920s gave us some durable housing, highways, and a radio broadcasting infrastructure.”
We Have Always Lived in the Casino
John Maynard Keynes warned that when real investment becomes the by-product of speculation, the result is often disaster. But it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.
Money for Nothing
Why the modern financial sector is better at extracting rents than funding the future.
The House Always Wins
The gaming industry is turning every smartphone into a casino — and it’s destroying more lives than ever.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE – JUNE 16, 2025
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 6.15.25 Issue features Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the ancestry of Pope Leo XIV; Nicholas Casey on how the MAGA right became obsessed with the Romanian presidential election; Irina Aleksander on how Jon Bernthal became Hollywood’s most dependable tough guy; David Marchese interviews Misty Copeland about her retirement; and more.
We Traced Pope Leo XIV’s Ancestry Back 500 Years. Here’s What We Found.
Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals. By Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Can You Ever Really Know a Person? Biographers Keep Trying.
Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability. By Parul Sehgal
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