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Cover Preview: Booklist Magazine – August 2022

Closeup of August 2022 issue of BOOKLIST

On the Cover
From The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean, featured in Top 10 SF/Fantasy & Horror Debuts. Art by Su Blackwell, photographed by Jaron James, art direction and design by Jamie Stafford-Hill. Used by permission of Tor Books.

Spotlight on SF/Fantasy & Horror

Top 10 SF/Fantasy & Horror: 2022

The Essentials: SF/Fantasy & Horror Cli-Fi

Top 10 SF/Fantasy & Horror Debuts: 2022

Top 10 SF/Fantasy & Horror for Youth: 2022

Trend Alert: Microtrend Roundup

Navigating Newbery: The Plight of High Fantasy

Top 10 SF/Fantasy & Horror Audiobooks for Youth

Features

Read-alikes: Fictional Scientists

Listen-Alikes: High-drama Dual Narrations

Booklist Backlist: Giving Shape to Big Feelings

Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – August 22, 2022

A person with sunglasses on in repose reading a book.

Nicole Rifkin’s “Sun-Dappled”

The artist on her creative process and finding inspiration among artistic friends. By Françoise Mouly, Art by Nicole Rifkin

Africa’s Cold Rush and the Promise of Refrigeration

For the developing world, refrigeration is growth. In Rwanda, it could spark an economic transformation.

By Nicola Twilley

Cover Preview: Barron’s Magazine – August 15, 2022

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6 Stocks to Play the Big Push Toward Renewable Energy

The U.S. climate bill, along with a parallel initiative in Europe, could reshape global energy. Plug Power, Sunrun, and other companies could make the most of the new opportunities in renewables.

UP AND DOWN WALL STREET

R.I.P., Bear Market. For Now, Signs Point to More Buying.

Andrew Bary

UP AND DOWN WALL STREET

It’s a Good Time to Buy Berkshire Hathaway Stock. Here’s Why.

Andrew Bary

UP AND DOWN WALL STREET

The Best-Run Auto Insurer May Not Be the Best Stock to Buy

Andrew Bary

THE TRADER

Coinbase Is Looking Like a Meme Stock. Watch Out, Shorts.

Joe Light

Preview: New Scientist Magazine – August 13, 2022

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In this week’s issue: How the healing power of silence can improve our mental and physical health.

  • FEATURES – What Earth’s mysterious infancy tells us about the origins of life
  • FEATURES – The power of quiet: The mental and physical health benefits of silence
  • FEATURES – 5 mind-bending numbers that could reveal the secrets of the universe
  • NEWS – How weevils have become weapons in UK’s fight against invasive plants

Cover Previews: Science Magazine – August 12, 2022

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Death’s-head moths correct course based on an internal “compass,” a new study finds, revealing insights into how insects traverse such long distances during seasonal migrations.

Scientists scramble to set up monkeypox vaccine trials

Logistical and ethical challenges are complicating the design of efficacy studies

Harassment researchers decry proposed reporting rule

U.S. Title IX law update requiring mandatory reporting of sexual misconduct would cause harm, they say

Star’s midlife crisis illuminates our Sun’s history—and future

Long magnetic lull mimics Maunder Minimum, when sunspots largely disappeared 400 years ago

Star marine ecologist guilty of misconduct, university says

University of Delaware finding vindicates whistleblowers

Webb reveals early universe’s galactic bounty

Star formation after the big bang appears much faster than models had forecast

Read that research and more this week in Science. https://fcld.ly/zebukkw

Preview: The Economist Magazine – August 13, 2022

Target: Taiwan

Target: Taiwan

Cover Preview: Nature Magazine – August 11, 2022

Volume 608 Issue 7922

Preview: Times Literary Supplement – Aug 12, 2022

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Shared intelligence

How British and American secret services have collaborated

By Richard Norton-Taylor

Contemporary philosophy|Book Review

The truth is out there

Do different perspectives lead to scientific progress?

By David Papineau

Natural history|Book Review

If we only had eyes to see

The extraordinary variety of animals’ sensory worlds

By Charles Foster

Diaries|Book Review

Monks and bones

Dora Wordsworth’s journal of her father’s German tour

By Frances Wilson

Preview: London Review Of Books – August 18, 2022

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Our new issue is now online, featuring @_jamesmeek in southern Ukraine, @GeoffPMann on economic degrowth, @jonathancoe on esoteric 70s TV, @KasiaBoddy on Donald Barthelme, @KathleenJamie on bird flu and a cover by Helen Napper.

Read more: http://lrb.co.uk