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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – MARCH 21, 2026 PREVIEW

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Operation Blind Fury‘

War in Iran is making Donald Trump weaker—and angrier

By diminishing the president’s political superpowers, his reckless campaign may make him more dangerous

Lebanon’s leaders must take on Hizbullah

And Israel must not play the spoiler

Africa after aid is more resilient than you might think

But more needs to be done to ensure a prosperous future

A dirty deal with Cuba would be better than the alternatives

A prolonged blockade risks creating a humanitarian crisis on America’s doorstep

Gas will not be killed off by renewables any time soon

But there are ways to rely less o

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HARPER’S MAGAZINE —— APRIL 2026 PREVIEW

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HARPER’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Lessons From An Occupation’….

Thirty-Eight Days of ICE

The story of an occupation by Daniel Brook

Conflict Resolution

Has Russia won the war? by Olivier Kempf

State of Nature

What are conservative environmentalists fighting for? by Gaby Del Valle

Brothers and Sisters

On the fiction of siblings by Christine Smallwood

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THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE – APRIL 2026 PREVIEW

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April 2026 Issue - The Atlantic

THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘My Year as a Degenerate Gambler”…

Sucker

My year as a degenerate gambler

On a Thursday evening in September, I excused myself from the family dinner table and slipped into my bedroom. I didn’t want my kids to see what I was about to do.

With the door locked behind me, I pulled out my phone and downloaded the DraftKings betting app. I felt a certain thrill as I typed in my debit-card information and deposited $500. The first game of the NFL season was a few minutes away. Anything seemed possible. …By McKay Coppins

What 100 Million Volts Do to the Body and Mind

The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate? By Jacob Stern

The Pete Hegseth Exception

Nearly a year after a national-security scandal erupted on my iPhone, no one in the Trump administration has faced consequences. By Jeffrey Goldberg

The Forgotten Female Pilots of World War II

The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military service. By Ellen Cushing

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – MARCH 23, 2026 PREVIEW

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An explosive bouquet of colorful flowers.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Maira Kalman’s “Amid It All” – The blooms burst forth.

Trump’s Mass-Detention Campaign

Even with Kristi Noem gone, the Administration’s immigration agenda shows no signs of flagging—in fact, it is leading toward a new humanitarian and legal crisis. By Jonathan Blitzer

What’s Behind Trump’s New World Disorder?

A foreign policy freed of liberal pretenses and imperial ambitions could lead to restraint—or, as the Iran attack shows, simply license hit-and-run belligerence. By Daniel Immerwahr

Who Bankrolled the American Revolution?

Our history too often sidesteps the question of finances. But sonorous ideals don’t keep an army supplied with uniforms, guns, and grub. By Adam Gopnik

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GAGOSIAN QUARTERLY – SPRING 2026 PREVIEW

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Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2026 | Gagosian Quarterly

Gagosian Quarterly: The Spring 2026 issue features Jeff Koons pays homage to Duchamp’s tremendous generosity. On the occasion of an exhibition of historic works by Jasper Johns, Larry Gagosian reflects on the artist’s crosshatching technique and its impact on audiences past and present. We also trace the evolution of Michael Heizer’s complex negative sculptures and celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.

The House on Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell’s Studio Re-Created by Wes Anderson

The House on Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell’s Studio Re-Created by Wes Anderson is an exhibition conceived by curator Jasper Sharp and the acclaimed American filmmaker. The show brings Cornell’s New York studio to the heart of Paris, transforming Gagosian’s storefront gallery into a meticulously staged tableau—part time capsule, part life-size shadow box—for the first solo presentation of the artist’s work in Paris in more than four decades. In this video, Anderson discusses the genesis of the exhibition and the process by which it came together.

Michael Heizer: Negative Sculpture

Michael Heizer: Negative Sculpture

Across his nearly six-decade career, Michael Heizer has continued to probe the possibilities of sculptural form defined by its absence. His exhibition Negative Sculpture features Convoluted Line A and Convoluted Line B, among the artist’s most complex negative sculptures. Here, we consider a selection of works that have preceded the new sculptures.

Over the Guardrails, Into the Water

Over the Guardrails, Into the Water

Mike Stinavage meets with actor—and now director—Kristen Stewart to talk about her debut feature-length film, The Chronology of Water.

Berthe Weill

Berthe Weill

Valentina Castellani is the author of Trading Beauty: Art Market Histories from the Altar to the Gallery (2026), an expansive history of the art market and of the dealers who charted its course. Here—inspired by the recent exhibition Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-garde at the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris—Castellani considers the impact of the French gallerist.

Titus Kaphar: The Fire This Time

Titus Kaphar: The Fire This Time

On the occasion of his exhibition The Fire This Time at Gagosian, Paris, Titus Kaphar explores themes of history, representation, and collective memory in his recent paintings and hand-carved wood sculptures.

A Tremendous Generosity: Jeff Koons on Marcel Duchamp

A Tremendous Generosity: Jeff Koons on Marcel Duchamp

Jeff Koons tells Alison McDonald about his appreciation for the pioneering artist and thinker Marcel Duchamp.

Jonas Wood: The Rules of the Game

Jonas Wood: The Rules of the Game

Following a recent visit to Jonas Wood’s Los Angeles studio, Justin Beal thinks through the artist’s paintings of tennis courts—the subject of an exhibition at Gagosian, Beverly Hills—examining their relation to the game, color theory, and the rewards of practice.

Game Changer
Beatrice Wood

Beatrice Wood

Salomé Gómez-Upegui honors Beatrice Wood, the “Mama of Dada,” an underappreciated trailblazer within the movement who went on to become a brilliant ceramist.

Jasper Johns: Between the Clock and the Bed

Jasper Johns: Between the Clock and the Bed

On January 22, Gagosian, in partnership with Castelli Gallery, opened an exhibition of historic works by Jasper Johns at the 980 Madison Avenue gallery in New York. A survey of the crosshatch paintings and drawings that dominated his practice from 1973 to 1983, the presentation united works that have rarely been seen with loans from sources including distinguished American museums. The exhibition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of this body of work’s debut at Castelli Gallery in 1976. Here, Larry Gagosian speaks with the Quarterly’s Alison McDonald about the impetus for this project, his memories of seeing the exhibition in 1976, and the enduring impact of these paintings on artists and collectors.

Nan Goldin: Another Word for Love

Nan Goldin: Another Word for Love

For the fortieth anniversary of Nan Goldin’s genre-defining photobook The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (Aperture, 1986), Gagosian, London, will be exhibiting all of its 126 photographs, the first time the entire body of work will be shown in the United Kingdom. To celebrate the occasion, David Velasco looks back to the series’ creation and evolution, considering the radical exploration of seeing and love at the core of The Ballad.

Frank Gehry: Every Building, a Self-Portrait

Frank Gehry: Every Building, a Self-Portrait

Deborah McLeod, senior director at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, reflects on the generous and innovative vision of Frank Gehry. Having worked with the architect and artist for more than a decade, McLeod addresses his outsize impact on the city of Los Angeles and the world beyond.

Fashion and Art: Thomas Gainsborough

Fashion and Art: Thomas Gainsborough

The Frick Collection, New York, opened Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture on February 12. The first exhibition devoted to the English artist’s portraiture ever held in New York, the show comprises more than two dozen paintings and explores the role of fashion in Gainsborough’s depictions, in terms both of the sitters’ clothes and of the larger context of class, labor, craft, and time. Aimee Ng, the Frick’s Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, has been working on the show for a decade; last fall she met with the Quarterly’s Derek C. Blasberg to talk about this historic project.

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THE PARIS REVIEW-SPRING ’26

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THE PARIS REVIEW : The Spring 2026 issue features Interviews, Prose, Poetry and Art….

  • Sarah Schulman on the Art of Nonfiction: “I like to have my say, obviously. And if people would have just let me talk, some of these books wouldn’t have had to be written.”
  • Darryl Pinckney on the Art of Nonfiction:  “There are moments when you run up against a white wall—there’s a white man, white man, white man, white man—and the story somehow has to be uncovered.”
  • Prose by Ingeborg Bachmann, Dan Bevacqua, Patrick Cottrell, Zans Brady Krohn, Tao Lin, David Szalay, and Yu Hua.
  • Poetry by Inger Christensen, Rachel Lapides, Enrique Lihn, Joyelle McSweeney, Nakahara Chuya, and Asiya Wadud.
  • Art by Cecily Brown, Tom Fairs, and Cauleen Smith; cover by Cecily Brown.
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COMMENTARY MAGAZINE – APRIL 2026 PREVIEW

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April 2026 – Commentary Magazine

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘IRANAMOK’ – ISRAEL HAS BEEN PREPARING FOR THIS FOR A GENERATION.

Regime Change Without Nation Building

by Jonathan Schanzer

America and Israel are at war with Iran, a fact that should be neither shocking nor surprising. Both countries have been targeted by the Islamic Republic since its inception in 1979. Both countries have engaged in painful battles with the regime’s proxies. Both nations battled Iran for 12 days last year; Israel targeted nuclear assets and other key military targets, paving the way for a crescendo of American strikes that hammered Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

They Should Have Listened to My Dad

by John Podhoretz

Editor’s Commentary

One American-Israeli Battle After Another

by Eli Lake

The Case for Trump’s War Is the Case for Bush’s War

by Tod Lindberg

Washington’s Foremost Con Artist

by James Kirchick

Washington Commentary

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE- MARCH 15, 2026

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 3.15.26 Issue features Yudhijit Bhattacharjee on the quest to save Bili the baby gorilla; Daphne Merkin on the psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz; Elisabeth Zerofsky on the key to Europe’s defense; and more.

The Quest to Save One Baby Gorilla From an Uncertain Fate

Social media is fueling a black market for infant primates like Bili, who was captured in the wild and trafficked. By Yudhijit BhattacharjeeCreditIllustration by Clément Thoby

The Race to Stop Wildlife Trafficking in Africa

In Nigeria, customs officers and conservationists are confronting the grim impacts of the $20 billion trade. By Arlette Bashizi and Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

X’s Chatbot Started Undressing Women. Was This What A.I. Wanted All Along?

Grok Imagine’s “nudify” scandal reveals something about the dream of manhandling photos.

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.

When a President Gets Addicted to Regime Change

Venezuela gave Trump a taste of success. This isn’t the first time an American president has gotten hooked on overthrowing foreign governments. By Scott Anderson

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – MARCH 14, 2026 PREVIEW

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘An attack on the world economy‘….

An attack on the world economy

Whatever happens in the Strait of Hormuz, energy markets have been changed for ever

China’s hereditary elite is taking shape

The Communist Party is afraid to tax inherited wealth

There are no good options for Iran’s nuclear programme

If America cannot eliminate the threat, what should it do?

How to teach Donald Trump a Latin lesson

By alienating Hispanics, he has given Democrats an open goal

Haiti needs order first, then elections

Voters must be able to turn out without risking death