LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – JUNE 5, 2025 PREVIEW
Category Archives: Magazines
The New York Times Magazine – May 12, 2025
Can Whitney Wolfe Herd Make Us Love Dating Apps Again?
The Bumble CEO has returned to run the struggling company she founded, and says she has a plan for getting Gen Z back By Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Why Do More Police Officers Die by Suicide Than in the Line of Duty?
His friend and fellow cop killed himself. Then he nearly became a statistic as well. Why do more police officers die by suicide than in the line of duty? By Jamie ThompsonCreditDanny Wilcox Frazier for The New York Times
The Surprising Ways That Siblings Shape Our Lives
Parents try everything to influence their children. But new research suggests brothers and sisters have their own profound impact. By Susan Dominus
The $200 Billion Gamble: Bill Gates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation
In a wide-ranging interview, he explains his decision —
Barron’s Magazine – May 12, 2025 Financial Preview
Defense Stocks Are Under Fire. How to Play the New World Order.
Traditional contractors L3Harris and Northrop look like winners. Upstarts like AeroVironment, Karman, and Kratos are worth watching, too.
Sphere Entertainment Has a Dazzling Arena. The Stock Is Undervalued.
Sphere is part of the Dolan empire, and its shares look cheap relative to the company’s assets.
Trump’s Tariffs Rattle Small Businesses. Four Survival Stories.
Small, privately held businesses often lack the resources and financial strength to survive high tariffs against their trade partners. How some are coping.
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – MAY 29, 2025
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (May 8, 2025): The latest issue features…
‘There’s Nothing for Me Here’
What caused Venezuela’s collapse, and who is responsible? A recent memoir tells the story as so many families have lived it.
Motherland: The Disintegration of a Family in a Collapsed Venezuela by Paula Ramón, with translations by Julia Sanches and Jennifer Shyue
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela by William Neuman
The Spy in the Jeu de Paume
The detailed information gathered by the French curator Rose Valland about the Nazis’ looting of artworks made it possible for the Allies to recover tens of thousands of them after World War II.
The Art Front: The Defense of French Collections, 1939–1945 by Rose Valland, translated from the French by Ophélie Jouan, with a foreword by Robert M. Edsel
Doing Their Own Research
An electoral coalition of the conspiracy cultures of both the Christian right and the countercultural left helped bring Donald Trump back to power, and now pseudoscience and paranoia are in the ascendant.
Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker
Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists and the New Order in Wellness by Stewart Home
The Economist Magazine – May 10, 2025 Preview
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (May 8, 2025): The latest issue features ‘All grown up: Saudi Arabia’s surprising transformation‘…
Saudi Arabia is pulling off an astonishing transformation
Muhammad bin Salman is going from troublemaker to peacemaker
What Putin wants—and how Europe should thwart him
Many Europeans are complacent about the threat Russia poses—and misunderstand how to deter its president
Luck stands between de-escalation and disaster for India and Pakistan
Sooner or later, the luck will run out
The war in Gaza must end
America should press Binyamin Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire, then press Hamas to disarm
Donald Trump is right to ditch Joe Biden’s chip-export rules
Time to get realistic
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY – MAY 9, 2025 POLITICS PREVIEW
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY (May 7, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Trump meets political gravity’…
The Weekly’s cover focuses on the US president, who has at last been feeling the pull of domestic political gravity. Trump’s chaotic first 100 days in office – marked last week – have featured a blitz of sweeping and vengeful changes to America that have been hard to fully compute. But as the US economy falters and his poll ratings sink, David Smith asks whether the seemingly unchallengeable president is showing some signs of vulnerability.
Five essential reads in this week’s edition
Spotlight | Russia’s new sabotage campaign in Europe
Moscow’s intelligence services have launched a new type of attack on the west, violent but piecemeal and hard to prove, writes Shaun Walker
Spotlight | Palestinians face difficult decisions over future in Gaza
As Israel’s aid blockade rumbles on and humanitarian zones disappear, fears of a ‘second Nakba’ are being realised. Bethan McKernan reports
Feature | How Ticketmaster ate the live music industry
From grassroots gigs to stadium shows, there’s no escaping the ticketing giant, making billions from increasing prices (and whacking on fees). Dorian Lynskey investigates who is really to blame for the great rock’n’roll rip-off
Opinion | We recall the joy of VE Day. My worry is what we forget
In 1945, Sheila Hancock’s street party tea was a muted celebration, full of uncertainty. Then, as now, we faced a long struggle towards a better world
Culture | Black Sabbath on reconciling for their final gig
Heavy metal’s godfathers are preparing a star-studded farewell – but will Ozzy Osbourne be well enough to perform? In their first interview for two decades, the original lineup talk to Alexis Petridis
NATURE MAGAZINE – MAY 8, 2025 RESEARCH PREVIEW
NATURE MAGAZINE (May 7, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Relative Gains’ – Complete genome sequences for six ape species offer insights into human evolution…
Storm of seizures in a baby’s brain calms after trial therapy
The treatment, which aimed to block production of a mutant protein, reduced the frequency of infant’s seizures, but did not improve neurological impairments.
Tattoo-making tools used by ancient Maya revealed
The stone fragments had been discovered inside ‘Handprint Cave’ in Belize alongside other artefacts suggestive of ritual use.
One of the world’s richest lithium deposits began inside a mega-volcano
Lithium that pooled in a volcanic caldera in the western United States had no way out, thanks to a lack of rivers.
For these bats, eavesdropping is a valuable learnt skill
Over time, young fringe-lipped bats learn how to distinguish the calls of palatable frogs from those of toxic ones.
COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE – MAY 7, 2025 PREVIEW
COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE (May 7, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Cotswolds Issue’…
An outpouring of joy
Jubilation and bittersweet tears greeted the end of hostilities in 1945, reports Octavia Pollock.
The carver, the baker and fancy shoemaker
Jane Wheatley meets some of the craftspeople enhancing the Cotswolds’ standing as a hive of creativity.
‘I am the Marquis of marmite’
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is applying his trademark swagger to a new passion for painting, reveals James Fisher.
Nothing lasts forever
Laura Parker reveals in those ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ moments that only Nature can provide.
The Cotswolds never disappoints (above)
Penny Churchill showcases glorious country houses for sale in two ‘golden triangles’.
All set for the Chelsea chop?
This it the time to prune our late-flowering herbaceous perennials — join John Hoyland in wielding the secateurs.
Martina Froth’s favourite painting
The Yale Centre for British Art Director chooses a work tinged with a melancholy sadness.
An estate made public
John Goodall investigates the gradual architectural revolution of Bowood in Wiltshire, a house that boasts a remarkable history.
The legacy
Kate Green pay tribute to Alan Turing, the code cracker who curtailed the Second World War.
The Badminton A-Z (above)
From amateur riders to Zaragoza, Kate Green guides you through the world-class eventing action.
New series: Winging it
The elegant hobby is capable of snatching swallows in flight — Mark Cocker is rapt by raptors.
The good stuff
Hetty Lintell is wowed by watches.
Interiors
Restful bedroom furniture and accessories, with Amelia Thorpe.
London Life
Rosie Paterson reveals how bees are creating a buzz in the capital, our writers have all your need to know this month and Selina Cadell shares her on-stage experiences of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
A soft touch
Tiffany Daneff marvels at the flower-filled paradise of Hampnett House in Gloucestershire.
Travel (above)
Emma Love has an eye for adventure, Mark Hedges goes wild on safari in Botswana, Rosie Paterson hits the walking trail in Sri Lanka and Pamela Goodman hail’s Giubbilei’s gardens.
Art and antiques
Simon Finch tells Carla Passino he will not part with his £1 note signed by a Great Train Robber.
One king to rule them all
Mary Miers explores the artistic and cultural legacy of James I.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – MAY 9, 2025 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (May 7, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Other America’ – The Hispanic Achievement…
Putting the blame on Spain
Why Anglo-American colonialism has no claim to moral superiority
Behind the velvet rope
The former editor of Vanity Fair looks back on an era of excess
Night visions
Fantastic gloomth: Victor Hugo the artist
The Spectator World Magazine – June 2025
THE SPECTATOR WORLD (May 6, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Reviving of the American Mind’…
The reviving of the American mind
For too long, academia has stifled intellectual originality
Keep AI ghouls out of the classroom
What if your first encounter with Shakespeare or Herman Melville was with an AI avatar in history class?
The Palisades, reimagined
You can see how wrecked the place is, and how temporarily low the de jure population – but the clean-up and rebuilding are well under way
The Trump administration is giving us excellence, not equity
We may not be in a golden age, but we can see one on the horizon
Wokeism is stifling thought in America’s universities
What if your first encounter with Shakespeare or Herman Melville was with an AI avatar in history class?
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