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The New York Review Of Books – November 21, 2024

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The New York Review of Books (October 31, 2024) – The latest issue features Coco Fusco on yearning to breathe free, Elaine Blair on Rachel Cusk, Fintan O’Toole on Trump’s predations, Ruth Bernard Yeazell on John Singer Sargent, Michelle Nijhuis on the disasters wrought by remaking nature for human ends, Clair Wills on Janet Frame, Andrew Raftery on the Declaration of Independence, Rozina Ali on evangelical missionaries in Afghanistan and Iraq, A.S. Hamrah on the Trump biopic, Tim Parks on Nathaniel Hawthorne, poems by John Kinsella and Emily Berry, and much more.

The Crime of Human Movement

Two recent books about our immigration system reveal its long history of exploiting vulnerable individuals for financial gain.

Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the “Criminal Alien” by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States by Ana Raquel Minian

Life in the Ruins

Two new books consider the delusion of the human quest to be free from the constraints of nature.

The Burning Earth: A History by Sunil Amrith

A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places by Christopher Brown

Iran Exposed

The Islamic Republic’s sordid proxy war with the West may now be leaving it open to an all-out attack as Israel attempts to eliminate its enemies throughout the region.

Culture, Magazines, Politics, Previews, Reviews, Society

Politics: The Guardian Weekly – November 1, 2024

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The Guardian Weekly (October 31, 2024) – The new issue features ‘The Balance Of Power’ – What the U.S. election could mean for the world…

Five essential reads in this week’s edition

Spotlight | Israel and Iran’s war comes out of the shadows
The Observer’s Simon Tisdall considers the consequences for the region of Israel’s weekend missile strikes on Iran

Environment | The Colombian warlord who reneged on deforestation
As the Cop16 nature summit in Colombia comes to a close, Luke Taylor tells a story that highlights the country’s complex relationship between environmental aspiration and political will

Feature | The brain collector
Using cutting-edge methods, Alexandra Morton-Hayward is unravelling the extraordinary mysteries of grey matter – even as hers betrays her. By Kermit Pattison

Opinion | It’s time to tell it how it is: Trump has fascist instincts
Those who know him best use the F-word to describe the former president. Every warning light is flashing red, argues Jonathan Freedland

Culture | The intersection of art and war in Ukraine
Poets, artists, playwrights and musicians are fighting and dying in Ukraine, and their work is capturing the horror and emotion of the conflict, finds Charlotte Higgins

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Research Preview: Nature Magazine-October 31, 2024

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‘Nature Magazine – October 30, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Spatial Awareness’ – Cancer cell atlases explore the landscape of tumour evolution…

Atomic smash-ups hold promise of record-breaking elements

Laboratory collisions that create the superheavy element livermorium could help scientists to discover new elements.

This plankton balloons in size to soar upwards through the water

A single-celled alga takes water into a bladder, allowing it to migrate to the sea’s sunlit surface zone.

Giant Turkish quake shifted the ground hundreds of kilometres away

The deadly earthquake led to unexpectedly large deformations some 700 kilometres from the epicentre.

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Country Life Magazine – October 30, 2024 Preview

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Country Life Magazine (October 30, 2024): The latest issue features…

Zandra Rhodes’s favourite painting

The fashion designer chooses a colourful, cheering scene.

A home reborn

Magnificent Knowsley Hall, Lancashire, has been rescued from institutional use through an admirable restoration project and is once again a home, discovers John Martin Robinson.

The Legacy

Amie Elizabeth White dons a Blue Peter badge to salute the show’s creator, John Hunter Blair.

Heal the land, heal the waters

Our precious rivers hold myriad life forms, yet have been sullied by the hands of humans. John Lewis-Stempel urges us to take care of them.

You’ve got peemail

Dogs, bats and other creatures keep up with the news through sniffing and sensing. Laura Parker reports on the animal kingdom’s telegraph system.

The ghost hunters

Deep in a glad or underwater, our rarest plants defy discovery. Peter Marren joins the quest.

Let Nature never be forgot

A cornucopia of delights awaits Tiffany Daneff in Alan Titchmarsh’s Hampshire garden, with secluded seats, ponds and plenty of space for wildlife.

The Renaissance men

Well-educated and curious, the British tourists with an eye for art laid the foundations of our great collections, finds Michael Hall.

Return to the steppe

Teresa Levonian-Cole boards the Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express to traverse Uzbekistan, a land brimming with art, history and caviar.

And, as always, much much more, including luxury, recipes, interior inspiration and gardens.

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London Review Of Books – November 7, 2024 Preview

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London Review of Books (LRB) – October 30 , 2024: The latest issue features ‘What was Bidenomics?’; Jenny Turner returns to Gillian Rose and Julian Barnes – Drinking for France…

Jenny Turner

Love’s Work by Gillian Rose – Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory by Gillian Rose, edited by Robert Lucas Scott and James Gordon Finlayson

Josephine Quinn – At the British Museum: ‘Silk Roads’

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite – The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain and Their Many Enemies by Andy BeckettA Woman like Me by Diane AbbottKeir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Nov. 1, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (October 30, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Scare Stories’ – On modern horror. Asked why he liked horror films, or terror films as he preferred to call them, Kingsley Amis wrote: “like Mark Twain on a dissimilar occasion, I have an answer to that: I don’t know”. He viewed horror as purely “harmless” entertainment. That explanation might satisfy teenage addicts, but moralists, psychologists and literary critics are inclined to examine the bloody entrails of the genre to divine deeper truths.

Dynamic, not doomed

Taking the British Revolution out of the Restoration’s shadow By Jonathan Fitzgibbons

Fiction for geeks and freaks

The decades before horror became respectable By Mark Storey

Married to amazement

How Mary Oliver ‘encourages us to believe’ By Rory Waterman

Green terror

An Australian vision of the eco-apocalypse By Tom Seymour Evans

Diet & Nutrition, Health, Newsletters, Previews, Reviews

Reports: Tufts Health & Nutrition-November 2024

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Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter (October 28, 2024): The new issue features ‘Give Thanks…with Less Waste’…

Make it a Mocktail

Special Report: Top Health & Nutrition Tips from our Experts

Fabulous Fiber!

Featured Recipe: Farro and Vegetable Salad

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The New York Times Magazine-October 27, 2024

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (October 27, 2024): The latest issue features David Gaubey Herbert on building a cheerleading empire; Elisabeth Zerofsky on the historian Robert Paxton; Jonathan Mahler on the tech billionaires who became major G.O.P. donors; and more.

How Cheerleading Became So Acrobatic, Dangerous and Popular

For decades, the sport has been shaped in large part by one company — and one man.

Nikki Jennings started cheering when she was 4 years old. She was small and flexible and became a flyer, a human baton spinning and twisting through the air before being caught by teammates. Until sometimes she wasn’t: She got her first concussion in the third grade.

Is It Fascism? A Leading Historian Changes His Mind.

Robert Paxton thought the label was overused. But now he’s alarmed by what he sees in global politics — including Trumpism.

Financial, Investing, Magazines, Previews, Retirement, Reviews

Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine-October 28, 2024

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE (October 26, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Retirement NIghtmare’…

They Bought Insurance for Security in Old Age. They Got a Financial Nightmare Instead.

People who bought long-term care policies decades ago face a wrenching dilemma: Pay much higher premiums or brace for crippling bills to cover their care in old age.