A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the outlook for the world economy, how worried you should be about Elon Musk’s superpowers (12:50), and a study allays fears that covid vaccines harm menstrual cycles (16:50).
Category Archives: Magazines
Cover Preview: Scotland Magazine – Nov/Dec 2022

Sally Coffey takes a private cruise on the Isle of Skye cruise to discover secret anchorages, undisturbed wildlife, and to hear tales of long ago
Our skippers spot it first: a dark lump on the horizon. There’s a scramble as a second pair of binoculars is found and shared around, each of us careful not to take our eyes off the distant point while we wait our turn. Silence as we stand on the ship’s foredeck staring determinedly at the sea, hoping it wasn’t an illusion. And then we see it – the sleek arc of a minke whale’s back and a hint of its dorsal fin.
Scotland Magazine Website
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Oct 17, 2022

The Post-Roe Abortion Underground
A multigenerational network of activists is getting abortion pills across the Mexican border to Americans.
Italy’s Great Historical Novel
Henry James decried the nineteenth century’s “loose baggy monsters,” but a new translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s “The Betrothed” demonstrates the genre’s power.
The New Yorker Magazine Website
Architecture/Design: enki Magazine – November 2022

enki Magazine – Novemver 2022
Treehotel adds Biosphere retreat | Enclosed in 350 birdhouses

Treehotel has revealed its eighth experimental retreat called Biosphere, which is suspended between two trees and wrapped in a façade of 350 birdhouses.
Designed by BIG in collaboration with Swedish ornithologist Ulf Öhman, the boutique hotel room is designed to immerse guests in nature and to help facilitate the conservation of the local bird population. The 34-square-metre glazed cube is surrounded by a metal grid that supports the timber-made birdhouses of various sizes, and creates its spherical form.
Life & Arts: FT Weekend Magazine – Oct 8/9, 2022
Cover Preview: Barron’s Magazine – Oct 10, 2022
The U.S. Dollar Is Superstrong. 8 Ways to Invest Abroad
The U.S. dollar got a brief, welcome walloping this past week, falling 1.5% on Tuesday alone against a basket of six major currencies. It remains up a hefty 17% for the year, and close to its strongest level in decades. That matters for ordinary savers, and not just forex flippers.
Rivian Is Recalling Nearly All Vehicles It’s Produced. The Move Shows the Challenges of Building Cars.
Payrolls Are Strong, Oil Is Rising. But the Fed Seems Intent on Raising Rates.
Chipotle Set to Test a Speedy Robo Burrito Maker
Tax-Loss Selling Is Wall Street’s Refuge in a Down Market
Previews: Archaeology Magazine – Nov/Dec 2022

Priestess, Poet, Politician
4,000 years ago, the world’s first author composed verses that helped forge the Akkadian Empire
Mexico’s Butterfly Warriors
The annual monarch migration may have been a sacred event for the people of Mesoamerica
A Tale of Two Abbeys
How entrepreneurial monks shaped the landscape of medieval England
Bronze Age Urban Experiment
Archaeologists debate who ruled the cities of the ancient Indus Valley
Magical Mystery Door
An investigation of an Egyptian sacred portal reveals a history of renovation and deception
Cover: The New York Times Magazine – Oct 9, 2022

Risking Everything to Offer Abortions Across State Lines
Doctors and midwives in blue states are working to get abortion pills into red states — setting the stage for a historic legal clash.
What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay
No greater challenge faces humanity than reducing emissions without backsliding into preindustrial poverty. One tiny country is leading the way.
The Climate Novelist Who Transcends Despair
Lydia Millet believes the natural world can help us become more human.
November 2022: National Geographic Traveller (UK)

The November 2022 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK).
The November issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK) is out now. The cover story this month looks at Colombia, South America’s rising star, with a focus on wild river safaris in the Amazon jungle, the vibrant cities of Bogotá, Cartagena and Medellín, the innovative Indigenous communities, the stunning archipelago of the Rosario Islands and the best of the Coffee Triangle.
Cover Preview: Art Review Magazine – October 2022

In ArtReview’s October issue – out now – Chris Fite-Wassilak profiles Jeffrey Gibson, the artist whose works unpick and repattern mythologies around the depiction of native cultures: ‘Dolled up in intricate beadwork and bright kitsch plumes, Gibson’s flamboyant artefacts mock the anthropological impulse, while buzzingly suggesting new rituals’.
Renewal can be a fraught process, as ruangrupa found at this year’s documenta fifteen. ArtReview’s Mark Rappolt and J.J. Charlesworth spoke to the collective’s farid rakun and Ade Darmawan about their hopes for and the results of ruangrupa’s artistic direction of documenta fifteen – and what happens next. Their work confounded many assumptions about how this major survey exhibition should be organised – and who and what it should be for. One thing was certain: they “had to fight for every inch”.
It’s a story that has dominated recent cultural discourse – and is touched on by Naom Chomsky, interviewed by Nika Dubrovsky for ArtReview October. Chomsky, a keen admirer of David Graeber’s work, discusses with Dubrovsky the late anthropologist’s last project, neoliberalism and democracy, Western empiricism and imperialism, free speech, Roe v. Wade, and the war in Ukraine.