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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – AUGUST 10, 2026 PREVIEW

The cover of the August 10 2026 issue of The New Yorker on which a herd of deer gazes at the Guggenheim Museum...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Eric Drooker’s “Outside Art” – A reprieve from the city’s chaos.

The Future, Made in China

Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications. By Evan Osnos

The Failures of the Fauci Hearing

Senator Rand Paul may have approached the matter with theatrics and ill will, but Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision not to testify was a loss. By Amy Davidson Sorkin

How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything

The lawyer who showed an outer-borough striver how to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media. By Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – AUGUST 20, 2026

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features

Artful Weaving

The most authentic thing about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is its densely braided narrative, but its tormented hero sounds like the heroes of Christopher Nolan movies.

Whose Party?

As Democratic Socialists rack up primary victories, the moderate wing of the Democratic Party looks increasingly out of touch.

Trump’s Constitutional Dictatorship

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s inside account of the Trump administration portrays a president with a vast appetite for power but who repeatedly backs down when the costs of his actions become too high.

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

Out of the Rubble

In novels written immediately after World War II, Wolfgang Koeppen mined the conscience of Germany.

Pigeons on the Grass by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann

The Hothouse by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann, with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra

Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann, with an introduction by Joshua Cohen

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – AUGUST 3, 2026 PREVIEW

A brightly colored summer scene of a woman taking a break in the summer heat.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “Repose” – Soaking up the sun. By Françoise Mouly

Which Way Should the Democratic Party Go Now?

It’s been a tumultuous primary season, but is this the Democrats’ Tea Party moment? Or is something more pragmatic emerging? By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

How Netanyahu’s Top General Became His Strongest Challenger

Gadi Eisenkot, whose view of war is shaped by the loss of his son, is, in manner and character, the anti-Bibi. By David Remnick

The Men Who Made Theory French

French theory, as taught in American classrooms, has acquired a reputation of forbidding difficulty and hauteur. A new history seeks to surface its human side. By Dayna Tortorici

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JULY 24, 2026 PREVIEW

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Emily Brontë’s mysterious power’….

Uncloistered

Oxbridge in the postwar world By Richard Vinen

Freeing life from facts

The awesome, mysterious work of Emily Brontë By Claire Harman

All very hush-hush

Silence in literature By Daniel Karlin

Feel good philosophy

Should human life have a purpose? By Crispin Sartwell

THE HUDSON REVIEW MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2026

THE HUDSON REVIEW: The latest issue features….

2025 SHORT FICTION CONTEST

First Prize: The Unmeasurable by Pegah Ouji
Second Prize: The Nearer Realm by Rebecca Kilroy

ESSAYS

Remembering Emily Grosholz (1950–2026) by David Mason
Turn, Turn, Tumble: Similes, and Shipwrecks, and the Sea by Carol Dougherty

MEMOIR

Journey to a Novel by Antonio Muñoz MolinaGuillermo Bleichmar, trans.

FICTION

Restos by Mark Jacobs

POETRY

Citizens of the Wind; The Salt Waking; A Drawn-Out Anxious Sense; The Extinction of the Dinosaurs by David Mason
Trying to Write a First Love Poem at Seventy; For the Earth Dwellers by Brian Culhane
At the Grave of Tiem Duc Bui; Woman Raking Leaves in Barry Park; Late Bedtime Story; Camden, 1969 (After Borges) by Charles Martin
In Wilkins’ by Daniel Tobin
Ascension; Tongue-Tie by Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi
The Deer Mouse Berates Me; Sox in the Underworld by Joan Murray

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JULY 27, 2026 PREVIEW

New Yorkers enter and exit the subway dressed in towels and ready for a sauna.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Spa Day,” by Marcellus Hall.

Trump’s War on Journalists

The recent subpoenas of reporters make clear that the President is trying to threaten the press. Few protections are in place to stop him. By Ruth Marcus

How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran

Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu.

María Corina Machado’s Opposition in Exile

The Venezuelan politician hoped to become her country’s leader with help from the U.S. The Trump Administration had other priorities. By Stephania Taladrid

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JULY 20, 2026 PREVIEW

For the World Cup finals soccer players on the field with a city skyline in the background.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Jonathan Blitzer on ICE’s biggest detention center, Zach Helfand on steroids, Jessica Contreras on a family intertwined with A.I., and more.

An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like

Under a new proposal, Administration officials could deny government grants to any group or project on the ground that it didn’t fit the President’s agenda. By Elizabeth Kolbert

When A.I. Is a Member of the Family

A single mom, her two daughters, and the chatbots that fill in the gaps. By Jessica Contrera

Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center

On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design. By Jonathan Blitze

The Lost Art of the Bromance

New books, articles, and shows lament a crisis of connection among American men. But the picture of friendship that emerges can feel romanticized and brittle. By Katy Waldman

The American Scholar Magazine – SUMMER 2026

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THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR: The latest issue features ‘Forget Me Not’ – Some people remember their pasts with eerie clarity, for others, there’s only a void…

You Must Remember This

On the nature of autobiographical memory By Jonathan Weiner

Twain Town, U.S.A.

Samuel Clemens is everywhere in Hannibal, Missouri, but is the story the town tells about its favorite son grounded in reality or myth? By Ruth Franklin

Found in Translation

The act of rendering plays from Romanian to English has allowed me to discover my family’s past—and myself By Amanda L. Andrei

Thanatos Rising

A 1930s correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud laid out each man’s views on war and peace By George Makari

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – JULY 23, 2026

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features

An Uncertain Triumphalism

America’s centennial in 1876 was celebrated with a grand exhibition that projected an image of national unity and inventiveness in the anxious aftermath of civil war and recession.

Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future by Fergus M. Bordewich

Hungary: The Flood

Peter Magyar’s landslide electoral victory in April made clear that after sixteen years, Hungarians were tired of Viktor Orbán.

Space Oddity

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism examines how Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, by selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit.

Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff

Song of Our Cells

Though a mystery to Darwin in his lifetime, the constant mutation of our genes is what allows for life’s magnificent diversity.

Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health by Roxanne Khamsi