Our four-week summer issue is now online, featuring @TriciaLockwood on Marian Engel’s ‘Bear’, David Runciman on Michael Wolff’s ‘Landslide’, Colm Tóibín on Pessoa, a new essay by Lydia Davis, Andrew O’Hagan on Fergie’s Mills & Boon and a cover by @Jon_McN: https://t.co/xaTOjYd3Vr pic.twitter.com/85zYXXbrnn
— London Review of Books (@LRB) August 4, 2021
Tag Archives: August 2021
Front Cover Views: New Scientist Magazine – Aug 7

EDITOR’S PICK

Samir Shaheen-Hussain interview: Doctors left children to suffer
Discoveries of mass graves of Indigenous children in Canada have prompted new scrutiny of the residential school system – including the role physicians played in unethical experiments, says paediatrician Samir Shaheen-Hussain

How the fossil fuel era ends – and four possibilities for what follows
Killing fossil fuels to halt global warming is the greatest challenge we face. We now have a masterplan of what we must do when – and there’s no time to delay

Fatih Birol interview: Using energy isn’t evil – creating emissions is
People think using more energy is a bad thing, says International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol – but as long as we can make it cleanly, it needn’t be

How we can transform our energy system to achieve net-zero emissions
Killing fossil fuels to halt global warming is the greatest challenge we face. We now have a masterplan of what we must do when – and there’s no time to delay
Front Covers: Country Life Magazine – August 4

Here’s a small selection of what you’ll find inside.
FLYING VISIT: Charles Harris takes glorious flight over the Lake District
ROCKPOOLS: Life in the rockpool can be cut-throat, says Adam Nicolson
INSECT APOCALYPSE: Dave Goulson on averting the impending insect apocalypse
MY FAVOURITE PAINTING: Sally Clarke, restauranteur, chooses a simple, restful study by Dürer
ELGAR: Jack Watkins examines Elgar’s ‘best of me’ oratorio
TURVEY HOUSE: Jeremy Musson details the refurbishment of neo-Classical Turvey House in Bedfordshire, by the seventh generation of the family that built it
Cover Stories: Newsweek – ‘The Doomsday Variant’
Front Page Views: Wall Street Journal – Aug 4
Front Page Views: Wall Street Journal – Aug 3
Front Cover Views: The New Yorker – Aug 9, 2021
Cover Views: ‘Romeing’ Magazine – August 2021
Front Page View: Wall Street Journal – Aug 2
Morning News: Taliban Surge In Afghanistan, Singapore & Chewing Gum
Sweeping rural gains made as American forces have slipped out are now giving way to bids for urban areas; an enormous, symbolic victory for the insurgents looms.
Singapore has enjoyed relative racial harmony for decades, but shocking recent events have revealed persistent inequalities. And why chewing gum has lost its cool.