Category Archives: Reviews

Nature Magazine —– March 6, 2025 Preview

Volume 639 Issue 8053

NATURE MAGAZINE (March 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Fungal Waves’ – How mycorrhizal fungi build supply-chain networks for underground nutrient exchange…

Lhasa′s rocks reveal an Australian birthplace

Granite from the chunk of Earth’s crust called the Lhasa terrane did not come from India, as had previously been thought, but from much further afield.

Our Galaxy’s central black hole puts on a fireworks show

The James Webb Space Telescope uncovered repeated flares from the supermassive object called Sagittarius A*.

Just a smidgen of yellow-fever vaccine is enough

The standard protective dose is almost 14,000 units, but even 500 units raises antibody levels sufficiently to do the job.

Prospect Magazine – March 2025 Preview

Prospect Magazine - Britain's leading monthly current affairs magazine

PROSPECT MAGAZINE (March 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Smash and Grab’ – The existential choices when America turns allies into enemies; Michael Ignatieff predicts a new world order and voices from illiberal states reflect on resisting autocrats. Plus, we examine British defence and the future of the media.

America great. Instead, he may bring about its destruction

Donald Trump and his cronies are smashing up democratic norms, government institutions and the postwar international order. There are no signs yet that anyone will stop them

AI is the media’s chance to reinvent itself

David Caswell,Mary Fitzgerald

Times Literary Supplement – March 7, 2025 Preview

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Troubled Mind’ – Oliver Sack’s personal demons…

A fresh classical sunlight

Revisiting W. H. Auden’s postwar poetry collection The Shield of Achilles By John Fuller

Awakening

The inner life of Oliver Sacks, as revealed by his letters By Andrew Scull

Royal Acacemy Of Arts Magazine – Spring 2025

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RA Magazine Spring 2025 Issue (March 4, 2025): The cover of the latest RA Magazine features The Dream (1866) by Victor Hugo, subject of the RA exhibition Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo. 

Inside, cultural experts including Antony Gormley RA and Cameron Mackintosh reveal the visionary art of the author of Les Misérables. Plus: how Brazilian artists evolved a sense of place through art, from tropical modern fantasies to contemporary responses to colonial legacies; a visit to the Balearic Islands to see prize-winning social-housing built from locally quarried stone; an interview with artist-couple Michael Landy RA and Gillian Wearing RA; and ‘Inside the mind’ of maverick artist Helen Chadwick.

Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo

21 March – 29 June 2025

The Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries | Burlington House

Discover the imaginary worlds of Victor Hugo, one of France’s most famous writers, at this exhibition of his rarely-seen works on paper.

Art: Apollo Magazine – March 2025 Preview

‘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

The New Yorker Magazine – March 10, 2025 Preview

A bowl of oranges mirrors the sun.

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

Books: Literary Review – March 2025 Preview

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

The Hedgehog Review – Spring 2025 Preview

After Neoliberalism?

THE HEDGEHOG REVIEW (February 28, 2025): The latest issue features ‘After Neoliberalism?’ – The old order may be dying, but the shape of a new one is still unclear.

Thematic Essays

Just Another Liberalism?Blake Smith

Captives of DesireJames E. Block

There Are AlternativesDavid Ciepley

Putting (Some Kind of) Families First – Deborah Dinner

Whose Nationalism?John M. Owen IV

The Sum of Our WisdomMarilynne Robinson


Essays

Are We Really Living in a Materialist Age?Kit Wilson

Are You in Charge of Your Health?Sarah M. Brownsberger

Redeeming JealousyMarilyn Simon

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?

The Economist Magazine – March 1, 2025 Preview

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