Culture Preview: The New Review – October 2, 2022
Category Archives: Magazines
Covers: New York Review Of Books – Oct 20, 2022
The Two Elizabeths
The queen presided over the death of a British world and yet was enormously successful in keeping alive the monarchy that symbolized it.
Last Poem
A poem by Emily Berry
‘She Captured All Before Her’
It used to be that people complained how little they knew of Queen Elizabeth. Toward the end, her remoteness was treasured.
Silences and Scars
Two new books on Berlin track the city through decades of growth, economic desperation, artistic innovation, Nazi terror, political division, and reunification.
Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World by Sinclair McKay
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin by Kirsty Bell
Lucky Guy
Jared Kushner’s anti-ideological ideology is to get the best deal for whomever he represents—the business he was born into, the business he married into, and, most of all, himself.
Breaking History: A White House Memoir by Jared Kushner
Previews: London Review Of Books – October 6, 2022
Our new issue is finally online, ft Mahmood Mandani on leaving Uganda, Tony Wood on Russia’s energy crisis, @MJCarter10 at Westminster Abbey, @danielsoar on Ian McEwan, @amiasrinivasan on Andrea Dworkin, T.J. Clark on painting & poetry & a @Jon_McN cover.
On Leaving Uganda
Uganda’s constitution of 1995 entrenched the barrier against citizenship for non-indigenous applicants, who now had to belong to an indigenous group.
At Westminster Abbey
The bald lesson of the abbey’s memorials is that money, power and connections repeatedly trump virtue and talent.
Previews: The Economist Magazine – October 1, 2022
How not to run a country
Liz Truss’s new government may already be dead in the water
Hurricane Ian pummels Florida
The Sunshine State has seen 40% of America’s hurricanes and a huge population boom
Previews: New Scientist Magazine – October 1, 2022
New Scientist Magazine – October 1, 2022:
We are finally waking up to the causes of insomnia and how to treat it
Millions of people struggle with insomnia, but the sleep disorder is now a solvable problem – and the most effective therapy might involve your smartphone rather than sleeping pills
Rebecca Wragg Sykes on the objects that reveal the Neanderthal mind
A third of scientists working on AI say it could cause global disaster
What’s the best recipe for bubble mixture? Scientists have the answer
Preview: Country Life Magazine – Sept 28, 2022
Country Life Magazine – September 28, 2022:
Walk this way
Katy Birchall consults trainer Ben Randall about how to get your dog to focus on you and stop disappearing on walks
Shooting pains
As a difficult shooting season begins, Simon Lester considers the state of the sport amid its many modern challenges
If I only had a brain
Confusing to dogs and a star of horror films, scarecrows still fulfil their traditional bird-scaring role, discovers Jeremy Hobson
Mary-Ann Dunkley’s favourite painting
The design director of Liberty Fabrics picks a bright patchwork
Masterpiece
Jack Watkins is diverted by the story of Shaw’s Pygmalion
Previews: Times Literary Supplement – Sept 30, 2022
This week’s @TheTLS , featuring @RichardEvans36 on German militarism; Laura Thompson on Raine Spencer; A. N. Wilson on Turgenev; @colincraiggrant on Eureka Day; Claire Lowdon on Kamila Shamsie; @rauchway on interest rates – and more.
Ukraine War Analysis: Time Magazine – Oct 10, 2022
Preview: New York Times Style Magazine – 10.2.2022
An Italian Villa Where Architecture Is a Family Affair
Most homes hold the history of their owners, but Il Palazzetto is as much a monument to its designers as to its inhabitants.
In Malibu, an Inflatable Bungalow for Robert Downey Jr.
The actor’s thin-shell home is at once an aerodynamic oddity and, perhaps, a harbinger of environmentally conscious architecture.
October 2022 Preview: EOS Magazine – Tsunami Waves
EOS Magazine October 2022 Issue:
Seismic Sources in the Aleutian Cradle of Tsunamis
Research over the past decade in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands has offered surprising insights into the pulses of great earthquakes that generate dangerous, often long-distance tsunamis.
Boomers Daily 