Category Archives: Magazines
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Sept 26, 2022
Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “#fallstyle”
The artist discusses Charlotte Gainsbourg, Uggs, and finding inspiration on Instagram.
Was Rudy Giuliani Always So Awful?
A lively new biography explores how the man once celebrated as “America’s mayor” fell into disgrace.
By Louis Menand
From Boy to Bono
I was born with melodies in my head, and I was looking for a way to hear them in the world.
By Bono
Books: Literary Review Of Canada – October 2022
The Bear and the Beaver – Eight games, one goal – Robert Lewis
Sentence Structure – Views from the inside – Amy Reiswig
Me, My Shelf, and I – An account of empty boxes – Mark Kingwell
An Uncertain Royal Path – Three Windsor women and the future of the monarchy – Patricia Treble
The last Queen of Canada? – What comes next for Canada and the Crown – John Fraser
Views: The Sunday Times Magazine – Sept 18, 2022
Views: American Heritage Magazine – September 2022
Antietam, America’s Bloodiest Day
In September 1862 the South hoped to end the war by invading Maryland just before the mid-term elections. But its hopes were dashed after the bloodiest day in American history. By Justin Martin
Johnstown: “Run For Your Lives!”
In the hills above Johnstown, the old South Fork dam had failed. Down the Little Conemaugh came the torrent, sweeping away everything in its path. By David McCullough
Remembering David McCullough
He became the dean of American historians after learning his craft working for five years on the staff of American Heritage. By Edwin S. Grosvenor
Carving Up the Americas
By artfully illustrating the boundaries of colonial powers, mapmakers in the 1700s helped define what our New World would become. By Neal Asbury, Jean-Pierre Isbouts
Cover Previews: Barron’s Magazine – Sept 19, 2022
Bulls Get Scorched by FedEx. Don’t Expect The Fed to Help.
Randall W. Forsyth
The Stock Market Finally Understands What’s Coming
Ben Levisohn
Some Consumer-Staples Stocks Might Not Be as Safe as They Look
Ben Levisohn
Workers Resist a Return to the Office. That’s Bad News for REITs and Their Investors.
Jack Hough
Forget a Fed Pivot. Rates Will Stay High as Inflation Persists.
Lisa Beilfuss
IBM, CVS, and 10 Other Stocks That Are Too Cheap Now
Al Root
Covers: The New Criterion Magazine – October 2022
The New Criterion
October 2022
Affirmative action & the law a symposium
The American affirmative-action regime by Frank Resartus
An agenda for Congress by Gail Heriot
The Voting Rights Act after six decades by James Piereson
Facially neutral, racially biased by Wen Fa & John Yoo
Democracy & the Supreme Court by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
New poems by William Logan, Jessica Hornik & Peter Vertacnik
Books: Kirkus Reviews – September 15, 2022 Issue
An Athlete and Activist Shares His Story With Kids
Here is the truly amazing thing that few people besides Tommie Smith remember about his gold medal–winning 200-meter run in the 1968 Olympics: He broke the world record in just under 20 seconds on one good leg.
‘The Rushdie Affair,’ Back in the News
As we were editing our Sept. 15 issue in mid-August, news broke that author Salman Rushdie had been attacked at a lecture in western New York state. The story sent shock waves through the literary community—a stark reminder that violence can lurk in the corners of literary debate. Rushdie is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction and is most celebrated for his 1981 novel, Midnight’s Children, a kaleidoscopic epic of Indian life after independence that won the Booker Prize as well as two subsequent honors, the Booker of Bookers in 1993 and the Best of the Booker in 2008.
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Sept 16, 2022
Seasonal monsoon rainfall replenishes groundwater reserves in the Bengal basin of Bangladesh thanks to the region’s seemingly counterintuitive intensive dry-season irrigation practices, a new Science study finds.
Europe’s energy crisis hits science hard
Supercomputing and accelerator centers struggle with surging gas and electricity prices
Private venture tackles Long Covid, aims to test drugs soon
Initiative to explore whether coronavirus lingers in patients
U.S. Antarctic Program has ignored sexual harassment
Decades of complaints have gone unheeded by NSF and contractors managing operations, employees say
Polio returns in rich countries, but big outbreaks are unlikely
As New York state declares an emergency, experts are far more worried about a resurgence in low-income countries
Read that and more in this week’s issue: https://fcld.ly/dt1xr77
Covers: New York Review Of Books – October 6, 2022
The October 6 issue is online now, with Bill McKibben on the climate refugee crisis, Hermione Lee on Joseph Roth’s violently mixed feelings, Linda Greenhouse on Justice Breyer’s most powerful dissent, Jerome Groopman on diabetes, Leslie T. Chang on narrative nonfiction in China, Ange Mlinko on H.D., David S. Reynolds on séances in the Lincoln White House, Verlyn Klinkenborg on the Beach Boys’ moment in the sun, Erin Maglaque on the pope’s astronomer, Mark Danner on the long, slow Trump coup, a poem by Vona Groarke, and much more.
Where Will We Live?
Three books on the movement, of both humans and wildlife, spurred by climate change illustrate the magnitude of the challenge before us.
Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth – by Benjamin von Brackel, translated from the German by Ayça Türkoğlu
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World – by Gaia Vince
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism – by Harsha Walia
Poet of the Dispossessed
Joseph Roth was unwavering in his passion for the vanished Austro-Hungarian Empire, which inspired his greatest novel, his hatred of nationalism, and his prophetic and courageous loathing for the Nazis. About everything else, as a new biography shows, he had violently mixed feelings.
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth – by Keiron Pim
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