TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (May 7, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Other America’ – The Hispanic Achievement…
Why Anglo-American colonialism has no claim to moral superiority
The former editor of Vanity Fair looks back on an era of excess
Fantastic gloomth: Victor Hugo the artist
THE SPECTATOR WORLD (May 6, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Reviving of the American Mind’…
For too long, academia has stifled intellectual originality
What if your first encounter with Shakespeare or Herman Melville was with an AI avatar in history class?
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
We may not be in a golden age, but we can see one on the horizon
What if your first encounter with Shakespeare or Herman Melville was with an AI avatar in history class?
Other cities have better infrastructure, fewer rats, cleaner streets, plentiful public toilets, more elbow room. Yet people continue to flock here.
By Alexandra Schwartz
In a new book, the boundlessly curious “Hangover” star probes history’s greatest blunders—like how the C.I.A. tried to make Castro’s beard fall out—as a way to face the present.
By Henry Alford
As the Trump Administration encroaches on the city, Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams try to salvage their political careers.
By Eric Lach
LITERARY REVIEW (May 1, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Mad About Diana’…
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (May 2, 2025): The 5.4.25 Issue features ‘The Happiness Issue’…Susan Dominus on what we’ve learned from nearly a century of research into happiness; Molly Young’s depressing week in “the happiest country on Earth”; Kwame Anthony Appiah on how the idea of happiness got small; Jance Dunn on tips from experts on finding bliss; and more.
For eight years running, Finland has topped the World Happiness Report — but what exactly does it measure?
Decades of wellness studies have identified a formula for happiness, but you won’t figure it out alone. By Susan Dominus
Tips from experts, astronauts and Cher on finding bliss. By Jancee Dunn
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER MAGAZINE (May 1, 2025): The latest issue features the pintxos bars of San Sebastián to exploring the artists’ studios of Barcelona, the June issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK) invites you to discover mainland Spain’s most breathtaking cities through the eyes of locals.
Kenya: In the southern safari regions, humans and wildlife have a fragile coexistence
Faroe Islands: In search of shapeshifters and sea trolls in this elemental archipelago in the Atlantic
Biarritz: On France’s Basque coast, this nostalgic town is revered by surfers and gourmands alike
Croatia:Hop from beach clubs to medieval monasteries with these island itineraries
Cartagena: Local designers and bartenders are giving this Colombian city a shake-up
Trentino: Mediterranean and Northern European cultures collide in this mountainous Italian province
Chengdu:In Sichuan’s provincial capital, teahouses are attracting a new generation of travellers
Prague: The Czech capital’s hotel scene is a feast for design aficionados
Plus, our pick of this month’s most exciting travel news; celebrating 200 years of Berlin’s Museum Island; a look at the flavours of Burgundy; exploring Galloway, Scotland, on two wheels; an architectural tour of Casablanca; the best summer music festivals; a dose of Victorian whimsy on the Isle of Wight; independent bookshops worth travelling for; and essential kit for festivalgoers.
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (May 1, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Taiwan test‘….
China has a new chance to call America’s bluff
The relief they are banking on needs to come fast
It would then have every right to strike back
The North America edition showcases Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, who achieved a remarkable victory in Monday’s federal election. As our reporter in Ottawa Leyland Cecco explains, Carney reversed a huge Liberal party poll deficit after voters backed him over his conservative opponent, Pierre Poilievre, to stand up to the threats of Donald Trump. Can the dour but tough former central banker succeed in fending off the aggressive advances of his US counterpart?
The big story | Kharkiv suffers in the shadow of a peace deal
While US-led negotiations threaten to carve up Ukraine, deadly Russian attacks continue amid deep cynicism about the process. Luke Harding reports from a city under siege
Science | Why f ish farms on the moon aren’t such a wild idea
The Lunar Hatch project is studying whether aquaculture might be able to provide a source of protein for astronauts on space missions. Kim Willsher paid them a visit
Feature | The dirtiest race in Olympic history
How did the 2012 Olympics women’s 1500m get its reputation? Athletes cheated out of medals talk to Esther Addley about what happened – and how the results unravelled
Opinion | Will Pope Francis’s compassionate legacy endure?
Some, especially within the US, see the forthcoming conclave as an opportunity to establish a more conservative leader, says Guardian associate editor Julian Coman
Culture | The genius of Barrie Kosky and his Wagner phantasmagoria
He put Carmen in a gorilla suit and had Das Rheingold’s Erda represented by a naked elderly woman. What are the the opera director’s plans for his edge-of-the-seat Die Walküre? Fiona Maddocks finds out
Two studies show the extent of gunshot wounds inflicted by police and link certain police-department policies with a lower death toll.
Tecovirimat, which has been approved to treat mpox, was no better than a placebo in a large trial.
Carbonate mineral is long-sought evidence of conditions that supported liquid water.
Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown dwarfs.
Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal
by Quentin Skinner.
The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
by Blake Gopnik.
Inside Thatcher’s Monetarism Experiment: The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy by Tim Lankester.
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