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The Progressive Magazine – April/May 2025 Preview

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THE PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE (April 3, 2025): The latest issue features

The Myth of a Safe Classroom

As educators, we can no longer promise our students will remain unharmed. But we can fight alongside them.

Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Immigrants Discover the Ties That Bind

During the second week of President Donald Trump’s new administration, I traveled with a couple of Wisconsin dairy farmers and a dozen of their neighbors and relatives to rural southern Mexico to visit the families of the farmers’ Mexican employees.

Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

Prospect Magazine —— May 2025 Preview

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PROSPECT MAGAZINE (April 2, 202): The latest issue features Should Europe break free from the US? Nathalie Tocci and John Bolton present their arguments. Peter Geoghegan reveals Reform’s backers and Emma Haslett reports on Maga’s IVF obsession. Plus, our critics cover Spotify, Andrea Dworkin & Lennon and McCartney

Europe’s wake-up call on defence

For too long, Europeans ignored Russia’s growing threat and the United States’ waning interest in their security

Europe could blow the west apart

John Bolton

Who funds Reform?

Peter Geoghegan

Elon Musk’s IVF obsession

Emma Haslett

Eminent Trumpians: meet the president’s cultural outriders

Matthew d’Ancona

If you care about music, delete Spotify

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Ben Okri: Timothée Chalamet brought me to tears

Prospect Team

Arts & Literature, Fiction, Literature, Magazines, Poetry, Reviews

The London Magazine – April/May 2025 Preview

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THE LONDON MAGAZINE (April 2, 2025): The latest issue takes the city as its muse:

Joshua Mehigan finds poetic inspiration at a petrol station stop, on the way back from Atlantic City

Kasra Lang and Sara Ahmad explore London and its residents who are marginalised or ignored

Paul Stephenson goes to Paris and attempts to ‘exhaust a place’ à la Georges Perec

Gráinne O’Hare’s fiction takes us to Belfast, a city scarred by the effects of generational trauma

Arts & Literature, Books, Literature, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

Times Literary Supplement – April 4, 2025 Preview

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 2, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Art and Lifestyle’ – On visual culture in the era of AI…

A bad business

Recalculating the economic gains of slavery By Padraic X. Scanlan

Raging bull

Rejecting the narrative of Picasso the monster to women By Lisa Hilton

Rebirth of the modern

The future of art and artists in the era of artificial intelligence By Aaron Peck

Writer, lawyer, banker, cleaner

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s tale of four women – and many social ills By Houman Barekat

Arts & Literature, Books, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

Books: Literary Review – April 2025 Preview

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LITERARY REVIEW (April 1, 2025): The April 2025 issue features ‘Henry James Goes West’; Russia’s Secret Wars’ Josephine Baker Uncovered; Besotted With Blake and Tale of Two America’s…

Tinker, Tailor, Sleeper, Troll

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West By Shaun Walker

The Restless Analyst

Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age By Peter Brooks

On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays By Henry James (Edited by Michael Gorra)

Merger or Acquisition?

Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America By Russell Shorto

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

Apollo Magazine – April 2025 – International Art

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APOLLO MAGAZINE (March 31, 2025): The April 2025 issue features ‘The sonic visions of Oliver Beer’; The Frick returns to Fifth Avenue and How the Acropolis became modern….

The Frick returns to Fifth Avenue

An interview with Oliver Beer

How the Acropolis became modern

In praise of ‘degenerate’ art

Also: The duchess who scandalised Spain, why the market for women’s art is slowing, Dutch paintings at Apsley House, how Bugatti built a style icon, the sensational designs of Alphonse Mucha, and a preview of Art Dubai; reviews of Gertrude Abercrombie in Pittsburgh, Medardo Rosso in Vienna, and a history of image-eating. Plus: Will Wiles on a French avant-garde portrait with a family connection

Arts & Literature, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

The New Yorker Magazine – April 7, 2025 Preview

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An illustration of Pete Hegseth J. D. Vance Tulsi Gabbard and others holding cellphones while riding on a missile.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 31, 2025): Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices” – The Trump Administration’s not-so-classified group chat.

The Greater Scandal of Signalgate

The spectacle of incompetence and the attempts to smear a reporter are a misery; even worse is the encroaching threat of autocracy that cannot be concealed or encrypted. By David Remnick

The Senate’s Age of Irrelevance

Elon Musk’s DOGE and Trump’s executive orders are pushing Congress’s upper chamber from ineffectiveness to obsolescence. Will John Thune, the new Majority Leader, let them? By David D. Kirkpatrick

Mixed Signals

Who says there are no historical precedents for accidentally including a journalist on top-secret war plans? By Anthony Lane

Finance, Investing, Magazines, News, Retirement, Reviews

Barron’s Magazine – March 31, 2025 Preview

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE (March 29, 2025): The latest issue features ‘AI’s Next Phase’….

The Next Phase of AI—and 22 Favorite Stocks—From Our Tech Roundtable Experts

Investors are increasingly searching for AI’s payoff. The recent tech correction offers opportunities to grab stocks like Reddit, Intuit, and more at lower valuations.

U.S. Stocks Are Falling Behind Europe. Where to Find Winners Abroad.

After years of lagging behind the U.S. market, Germany, France, and other nations are playing catch-up. What the pros are buying now.

Trump’s Trade War Is Entering a New Phase. Farmers Are on the Front Lines.

U.S. agriculture exports are at high risk for retaliation when reciprocal tariffs start on April 2.

Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

The New York Times Magazine – March 30, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (March 28, 2025): The 3.30.25 Issue features Nicholas Casey on Germany and the remains of its fascist past; Charles Homans on the strange popularity of the Unabomber’s manifesto; Bruce Schoenfeld on the ways baseball analytics are changing the game for starting pitchers; Jonah Weiner on the comedy of Andy Kaufman; and more.