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The Guardian Weekly – March 21, 2025 Preview

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY (March 20, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Driven to Fury’ – How Tesla became a target for protest…

 Lauren Gambino examines how growing difficulties for Musk have given heart to Democrats as they see his recognition factor and billionaire status as an easy rallying point to rebuild their own battered political fortunes. 

Spotlight | On the frontline of the tariff wars
Leyland Cecco takes the pulse of Hamilton, Ontario’s steel-making hub, after the Trump administration imposed a 25% levy on imports of Canadian steel and aluminium

Environment | Loess regained
The Loess plateau was the most eroded place on Earth until China took action and reversed decades of damage from grazing and farming, finds Helen Davidson

Feature | A Syrian civil war survivor
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad chronicles the life of Mustafa, determined to succeed in the new Syria even with his past as a forced soldier for the Assad regime

Opinion | Trump’s every misstep brings chaos
The honeymoon is over for a president who seems to personify the law of unintended consequences, says Simon Tisdall

Culture | A painter in her own write
Celia Paul tells Charlotte Higgins about her relationship with Lucian Freud and the struggles of being out of step with the art world

Culture: Harper’s Magazine – April 2025

HARPER’S MAGAZINE (March 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Social-Skills Crisis’ – Have we forgotten how to work together?; Undercover with New York’s Guardian Angels and The End of Psychoanalysis As We Know It?…

Going Soft – Future-proofing the American worker

by Lily Scherlis

The Last Detail – On patrol with the Guardian Angels

by Kent Russell

The Social Turn – Psychoanalysis at an inflection point

by Maggie Doherty

Country Life Magazine – March 19, 2025 Preview

Cover of Country Life 19 March 2025

COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE (March 19, 2025): The cover of Country Life’s 19 March 2025 issue, featuring Wollerton Old Hall Garden in Shropshire,

Building on a dream

Nicola Taylor tells Tiffany Daneff how she ‘picked up a spade and carried on’ where her father left off in a Northamptonshire wood

It starts with a seed

Is there anything more satisfying than growing a plant from seed? Find out how with John Hoyland

The ground crew

Christopher Stocks meets the unsung heroes and heroines of horticulture who keep Britain’s best gardens in mint condition

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Shocking pinks

Tilly Ware recommends a trip to Cornwall’s Calamazag nursery to pick up the perfect pinks

United colours of Rolls-Royce

Toby Keel finds the British marque making a bold, banana-yellow statement as he gets behind the wheel of the new Series II Ghost

A uniform approach

Never try to appear fashionable or attempt to look young — Dylan Jones shares his golden rules on how to dress in your sixties

Hare’s to you

Murderous, mad and magnificent: the hare is a fascinating figure in art, discovers Michael Prodger

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Spreads from Country Life 19 March 2025

Sir James MacMillan’s favourite painting

The composer chooses a bold and moving religious painting

The architect for me

In the first of two articles, Clive Aslet examines the double act of architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and client Reginald McKenna

Take it with a pinch of salt

Deborah Nicholls-Lee examines the salt-loving plants coming into their own in a changing climate

A night on the tiles

Harry Pearson finds drunken may-hem in the history of dominoes

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The good stuff

A vase is a Mother’s Day gift that keeps on giving, says Hetty Lintell

Interiors

Amelia Thorpe applauds the updating of a Wiltshire sitting room, as Arabella Youens asks: are you sitting comfortably?

Sour to the people

Fish and chips wouldn’t be fish and chips without a glug of malt vinegar, argues Rob Crossan

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Pho sure

Asian noodle soup tempts Tom Parker Bowles with its thrilling symphony of fragrant flavours

Foraging

Handle with care when picking hogweed and cow parsley for the kitchen, warns John Wright

Arts & antiques

Carlo Passino throws the spotlight on the engaging drawings of literary legend Victor Hugo

Directors take centre stage

Shakespeare and Chekhov are given an imaginative new spin — and Michael Billington approves

And much more

The New Atlantis Magazine – Spring 2025

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THE NEW ATLANTIS (March 18, 2025): The Spring 2025 issue features How the water system works, how virologists lost the gain-of-function debate, living well with AI, a physics that cares, and more…

How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate

For years, scientists kept the debate about risky virus research among themselves. Then Covid happened. As President Trump prepares to crack down on virology research, the expert community must face up to its own failures.

Stop Hacking Humans

From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans and toward healing them.

The Mars Dream Is Back — Here’s How to Make It Actually Happen

Between SpaceX’s breakthroughs and Trump’s inaugural promise, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity. But it can’t be realized as an eccentric’s project or a pork banquet. Here’s a science-driven program that could get astronauts on the Red Planet by 2031.

The New York Times Magazine – March 16, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (March 15, 2025): The 3.16.25 Issue features Extreme Voyages Issue, Evgenia Abrugaeva on the Ice Age bone hunters of Siberia; J Wortham on a 10-day crash course for surviving the Apocalypse; Doug Bock Clark on adventure racing through a hurricane; Sam Anderson on following the path of The Old Leatherman; Sara Benincasa on a trip to the grocery store as an agoraphobe; and more.

Diving With Siberian Bone Hunters

A search for the fossils of long-extinct creatures, hidden in Russia’s frigid waters.

How Generative A.I. Complements the MAGA Style

Online Trump supporters have embraced a unique form of irony that is hard to parse — and easy to deploy with new technologies. By Dan Brooks

The Old Idea That Could Give New Life to Progressive Politics

During the first Trump era, the resistance engaged in soaring rhetoric about unity — then fell apart. Will this time be different?By Parul Sehgal

    Country Life Magazine – March 12, 2025 Preview

    cover of Country Life 12 March 2025

    COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE (March 11, 2025): The cover of Country Life’s 12 March 2025 issue, featuring The Garden Hall at Pitshill House, West Sussex, as photographed by Paul Whitbread.

    Water you wading for?

    The village pond, once the hub around which community life revolved, is being reinvented as a ‘superpower’ habitat for rare species, finds Vicky Liddell

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    Sorry seems to be the easiest word

    Deborah Nicholls-Lee makes no apology for asking why there is nothing more British than saying sorry (up to eight times a day, we regret to say)

    Two’s company, three’s a crowd farmer

    Jane Wheatley is impressed by a new European project linking farmers direct to consumers in an effort to ensure fair pricing

    Peak sugar

    Harry Pearson is sweet on Kendal Mint Cake, the original energy snack that is still going strong after conquering Everest and crossing the Antarctic

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    Arts & antiques

    Nature’s beauty and vulnerability are laid bare in a new exhibition at Chatsworth in Derbyshire, as Carla Passino discovers

    Josh Eggleton’s favourite painting

    The chef and restaurant owner chooses a contemporary collage that keeps the viewer guessing

    Like cats on a hot tin roof  

    A feline stand-off in a Wiltshire farmyard has echoes of tax and trade talks for Minette Batters 

    Gothic splendours

    John Goodall hails the rebirth of Victorian gem Allerton Castle in North Yorkshire, some two decades after a devastating fire

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    The legacy

    Kate Green lauds the brilliant, but tragically brief blooming of cello prodigy Jacqueline du Pré

    The red army

    Ian Morton reveals why we don’t want wood ants in our pants

    The good stuff

    Pretty pastels are back for spring, so think pink, says Hetty Lintell

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    Bring me everlasting flowers

    Catriona Gray meets a man crafting blooms from coppiced hazel

    If you want colour…

    Picture-perfect primulas offer an easy way to festoon the garden with a kaleidoscope of colour, suggests Charles Quest-Ritson

    Foraging

    John Wright savours the peppery crunch and kick of black mustard, but he’ll never pick it in Yeovil

    It’s a Scream

    The wild work of Edvard Munch betrayed a troubled soul, but the Norwegian artist found salvation in Nature, declares Jessica Lack

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    The New Yorker Magazine – March 17, 2025 Preview

    An illustration of chefs and staff preparing food in a kitchen.

    THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 10, 2025): The latest issue cover features Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Masterpiece” – Delicious forms of innovation.

    The Unchecked Authority of Greg Abbott

    The Texas governor gained national attention by busing migrants to Democratic cities. Jonathan Blitzer reports on how he’s paving the way for President Trump’s mass-deportation campaign. By Jonathan Blitzer

    Trump’s Agenda Is Undermining American Science

    Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time. This Administration threatens that progress. By Dhruv Khullar

    How the Red Scare Reshaped American Politics

    At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded—and from how it came to an end? By Beverly Gage

    The American Scholar – Spring 2025 Issue Preview

    THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR (March 8, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Tiger, Tiger’ – Searching for the elusive big cat means learning to see the world anew…

    Tiger Mom

    At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind By Elizabeth Kadetsky

    Asteroid Hunters

    The scientists and engineers who defend our planet day and night from potentially hazardous space rocks By Jessie Wilde

    American Carthage

    Echoes from the ancient conflicts between Hannibal’s city and Rome continue to reverberate well into the present By Charles G. Salas

    The New York Times Magazine – March 9, 2025

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    THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (03/07/2025): The 3.9.25 Issue features David Enrich on the attack on The New York Times v. Sullivan ruling and its protections for the press; Ruth Margalit on the activist Einav Zangauker, whose son is captive in Gaza; Jonah Weiner on the director Bong Joon Ho; and more.

    The ‘Parasite’ Director Brings Class Warfare to Outer Space

    Bong Joon Ho has turned his funny-sad excavations of life under capitalism into unlikely blockbusters. With “Mickey 17,” he’s bending a whole new genre.

    Why Is Hollywood Obsessed With Architects? ‘The Brutalist’ Gives Us a Hint.

    The trope of the embattled auteur exerting their will is too tempting for filmmakers to ignore. By Walker Mimms

    Country Life Magazine – March 5, 2025 Preview

    Cover of Country Life 5 March 2025

    COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE (March 4, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The enfant terribile’ – Michelangelo; London’s best bakeries and why 1775 rocked; Charles Dance; Cheltenham and kitchen confidential…

    The year the stars came out

    A host of luminaries that were born in 1775 still shape British identity some 250 years on, as Matthew Dennison discovers

    A horse walks into a bar…

    Jack Watkins raises a glass to the Cheltenham superstars immortalised in the bars and restaurants at Prestbury Park

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    Interiors

    Amelia Thorpe cooks up a real treat with the latest inspiration and innovations for the kitchen

    London Life

    – Amie Elizabeth White celebrates 100 years of the Dickens museum, plus Country Life’s guide to the best baked goods in the capital

    Arts & antiques

    Charles Dance talks to Carla Passino about Michelangelo, mentoring and why the Sistine chapel is like playing King Lear

    The good, the bad and the ugly

    Michael Hall delves into the genius of Michelangelo, at once the enfant prodige and enfant terribile of the Renaissance

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    Simon Martin’s favourite painting

    The art-gallery director selects a beguiling 17th-century miniature revealing a connection to Nature

    A regal renewal

    John Goodall hails the revival of Restoration House in Kent, a magnificent property that welcomed Charles II in 1660

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    The legacy

    Agnes Stamp hails the ‘British Barnum’ Charles Cruft, whose dog show is still best in class

    Shiver me timbers

    The once-popular black poplar could be our secret weapon in the battle against climate change, finds Vicky Liddell

    Spread from Country Life 5 March 2025

    The good stuff

    Hetty Lintell’s top tips on what to wear to the Cheltenham Festival

    And it was all yellow

    Charles Quest-Ritson brightens his day with the cheerful flowers of the ever-dependable forsythia

    Sharp practice

    The thorny old issue of pruning roses, with Charles Quest-Ritson

    Foraging

    Is tapping birch-tree sap worth the bother, asks John Wright

    Travel

    Emma Love shares the latest cruise news, Imogen West-Knights finds everything shipshape in the South of France, John Niven follows in the wake of Mr Mississippi Mark Twain and Pamela Goodman’s birthday treats take on a life of their own