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Country Life Magazine – March 5, 2025 Preview

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COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE (March 4, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The enfant terribile’ – Michelangelo; London’s best bakeries and why 1775 rocked; Charles Dance; Cheltenham and kitchen confidential…

The year the stars came out

A host of luminaries that were born in 1775 still shape British identity some 250 years on, as Matthew Dennison discovers

A horse walks into a bar…

Jack Watkins raises a glass to the Cheltenham superstars immortalised in the bars and restaurants at Prestbury Park

Interiors

Amelia Thorpe cooks up a real treat with the latest inspiration and innovations for the kitchen

London Life

– Amie Elizabeth White celebrates 100 years of the Dickens museum, plus Country Life’s guide to the best baked goods in the capital

Arts & antiques

Charles Dance talks to Carla Passino about Michelangelo, mentoring and why the Sistine chapel is like playing King Lear

The good, the bad and the ugly

Michael Hall delves into the genius of Michelangelo, at once the enfant prodige and enfant terribile of the Renaissance

Simon Martin’s favourite painting

The art-gallery director selects a beguiling 17th-century miniature revealing a connection to Nature

A regal renewal

John Goodall hails the revival of Restoration House in Kent, a magnificent property that welcomed Charles II in 1660

The legacy

Agnes Stamp hails the ‘British Barnum’ Charles Cruft, whose dog show is still best in class

Shiver me timbers

The once-popular black poplar could be our secret weapon in the battle against climate change, finds Vicky Liddell

The good stuff

Hetty Lintell’s top tips on what to wear to the Cheltenham Festival

And it was all yellow

Charles Quest-Ritson brightens his day with the cheerful flowers of the ever-dependable forsythia

Sharp practice

The thorny old issue of pruning roses, with Charles Quest-Ritson

Foraging

Is tapping birch-tree sap worth the bother, asks John Wright

Travel

Emma Love shares the latest cruise news, Imogen West-Knights finds everything shipshape in the South of France, John Niven follows in the wake of Mr Mississippi Mark Twain and Pamela Goodman’s birthday treats take on a life of their own

Art, Arts & Literature, Exhibitions, Magazines, Museums, Reviews

Art: Apollo Magazine – March 2025 Preview

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‘A Concert’ by Lorenzo Costa on the cover of the March 2025 issue of Apollo

APOLLO MAGAZINE (March 3, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Performance art in Renaissance Italy’; Versailles in the 21st century and How to give back looted objects…

It’s time for the UK to act on restitution

An interview with Alex Da Corte

The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Music-making in Renaissance Italy

Including a new golden age at Versailles, Cycladic art over the centuries, the dangers of living in Los Angeles, Tracey Emin’s passion for painting, what new EU import laws will do to the art market, and a preview of TEFAF Maastricht; plus reviews of modernism in Brazil, the drawings of Henri Michaux, and the essays of Svetlana Alpers. And: Tessa Hadley on Bellini’s shocking depiction of the making of a martyr

Arts & Literature, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

The New Yorker Magazine – March 10, 2025 Preview

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 3, 2025): The latest issue features Christoph Niemann’s “Vitamin N.Y.C.” – Bright spots amid gloomy winter months.

Trump’s Disgrace

While F.D.R. set a modern standard for the revitalization of a society, Trump seems determined to prove how quickly he can spark its undoing. By David Remnick

Menopause Is Having a Moment

If you’ve got ovaries, you’ll go through it. So why does every generation think it’s the first to have hot flashes? By Rebecca Mead

Will Harvard Bend or Break?

Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America’s oldest university—and the soul of higher education. By Nathan Heller

Arts & Literature, Books, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

Books: Literary Review – March 2025 Preview

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LITERARY REVIEW (March 1, 2025): The latest issue features…

Death from the Clouds – Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan By Richard Overy

The Sultan & the Concubine – The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King By Christopher de Bellaigue

Freedom Readers – The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War By Charlie English

Business, Finance, Investing, Magazines, Retirement

Barron’s Magazine – March 3, 2025 Preview

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE (March 1, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Great Wall Of Worry’ – Chinese problems to beyond U.S. tariffs, but there are fresh reasons to dip into a once-shunned market. Where to invest now?

Chinese Stocks Are Beating U.S. Stocks. Where to Find the Bargains.

As President Trump widens his tariff threats to other nations and China backstops its economy, investors are dipping back into a market they once shunned.

Trump Assails Zelensky. Ukraine Is Part of a Global Power Shift.

The president’s advisers are planning for a shift in the global balance of power. Their plans would reshape the global economy.

Are Social Security Checks Safe From DOGE’s Cuts?

Congress would have to change benefits, but cost cuts are starting to ripple through the Social Security Administration. What to know.

The Gold Rally Can’t Be Stopped. How to Play It Now.

The precious metal has more than doubled the S&P 500’s return. Is silver next?

Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

The New York Times Magazine – March 2, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 3.2.25 Issue features Amanda Hess on the actress Parker Posey; David Leonhardt on Denmark’s brand of progressive politics that features strict immigration measures; Daniel Bergner on the Israeli screenwriter Yehonatan Indursky; and more.Read this issue

How an Anguished Mother Became Netanyahu’s Fiercest Foe

Einav Zangauker, whose son is captive in Gaza, has made herself an enemy of the Israeli government by advocating relentlessly for a hostage deal.

Timothée Chalamet Should Win an Oscar for His Oscar Campaign

Lobbying the public to attract the votes of the academy is an odd practice — but you can’t say Chalamet hasn’t excelled at it.

In an Age of Right-Wing Populism, Why Are Denmark’s Liberals Winning?

Around the world, progressive parties have come to see tight immigration restrictions as unnecessary, even cruel. What if they’re actually the only way for progressivism to flourish?

Business, Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

The Economist Magazine – March 1, 2025 Preview

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The Economist's office agony uncle is back

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Don’s New World Order’…

Donald Trump has begun a mafia-like struggle for global power

But the new rules do not suit America

Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working

More wealth means more money for baby-boomers to pass on. That is dangerous for capitalism and society

Germany’s election victor must ditch its debt rules—immediately

Friedrich Merz has weeks to shore up his country’s defences

Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

The Guardian Weekly – February 28, 2025 Preview

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THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY (February 27, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Middle Man’ – Can Friedrich Merz mend Germany?

Can Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting fend off the far right? Plus: Bong Joon-ho interviewed

Diverting our eyes away from Trumpworld for a moment this week, attention shifted to Germany where Friedrich Merz’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance came out on top in the country’s federal elections.

For many though, the story of the night belonged to the far-right Alternative für Deutschland, which received more than a fifth of the vote and came top in virtually the entire eastern side of the country. Merz’s alliance did not win an outright majority so, having previously vowed not to work with the AfD, the chancellor-in-waiting must now try to form a grand coalition with other mainstream parties, which is likely to include Olaf Scholz’s heavily defeated SPD.

Amid surging support for the far right, Ashifa Kassam and Deborah Cole report from Berlin, where many people from immigrant backgrounds feel real fear for the future. Kate Connolly looks at Merz’s bulging in-tray as likely new leader of the EU’s largest economy, while in an opinion piece Musa Okwonga writes powerfully about the extent of anti-migrant feeling and xenophobia in Germany’s “time of the cowards”.

Artificial Intelligence, Business, Magazines, Reviews, Technology

MIT Technology Review – March/April 2025 Preview

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MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW (February 26, 2025): The ‘Relationships Issue’ features AI, Automation, and Surveillance will improve productivity. Or else.

This issue explores the many ways technology is transforming our relationships, from the AI chatbot revolution that’s changing how we connect with one another to the increasing power imbalance in the workplace that’s happening as monitoring increases and protections fall far behind. Plus animating ancient animals, lab-grown spandex, and adventures in the genetic time machine.