LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features ‘Visions of America’
Made in Tehran
Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History by Vali Nasr.
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – FEBRUARY 5, 2026 PREVIEW
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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – FEBRUARY 2, 2026
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Jason Zengerle on Tucker Carlson, Joshua Yaffa on Trump and Greenland, Hermione Hoby on David Foster Wallace, and more.
Trump’s Greenland Fiasco
The President caused a crisis in NATO and deepened European distrust toward the U.S. to end up with basically the same set of options that existed months ago. By Joshua Yaffa
What MAGA Can Teach Democrats About Organizing—and Infighting
Republicans have become adept at creating broad coalitions in which supporting Trump is the only requirement. Democrats get tied up with litmus tests.
How Shinzo Abe’s Assassination Brought the Moonies Back Into the Limelight
A shocking act of political violence exposed the cult’s deep influence. By E. Tammy Kim
History Today Magazine – FEBRUARY 2026 Preview
HISTORY TODAY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Life and Death in the Thirty Years War’ – Refugees in the Thirty Years War, the Trojan myths of medieval Wales, Russia in the 1990s, the godless students of London University, brothels of the British Empire, and more.
Fight and Flight in the Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years War devastated continental Europe, killing millions and creating as many refugees. How did they experience the conflict?
When Did the Reformation End?
From 1517, when Luther’s 95 Theses sparked schism and bloodshed, the Protestant Reformation divided Europe. Can we say when – or if – the conflict concluded?
‘Demosthenes’ by James Romm review
Demosthenes: Democracy’s Defender by James Romm looks for hope amid the sound and fury surrounding the great orator of ancient Athens.
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – FEBRUARY 12, 2026
A More Pliant Chavista
President Trump’s decision to support Delcy Rodríguez as Venezuela’s new leader makes clear that oil, not democracy, is his main concern.
Whose Hemisphere?
The US capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro reinforces the Trump administration’s capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.
Epic Ambitions
A new life of Gertrude Stein treats her as a philosopher of language to trust, not explain—and gathers force from archival discoveries and intriguing plots of her reception and reputation.
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade
Is the Constitution ‘Dead, Dead, Dead’?
The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.
We the People: A History of the US Constitution by Jill Lepore
HARPER’S MAGAZINE – FEBRUARY 2026 PREVIEW
On Tilt – America’s new gambling epidemic
The Sanctuarium – The Philippines reckons with its war on drugs
Another London – Excavating the disenchanted city
by Hari Kunzru
The New Criterion – FEBRUARY 2026 Preview
THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features…
More than doctrinaire by Steven McGregor
Loving Malcolm Cowley by Bruce Bawer
Robert A. M. Stern, 1939–2025 by Peter Pennoyer
The Peruvian uncertainty principle by James Como
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE – JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2026
Samuel Green Freed Himself and Others From Slavery. Then He Was Imprisoned Over Owning a Book
After buying his own liberty, the Marylander covertly assisted conductors on the Underground Railroad, including Harriet Tubman. But his possession of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” turned him into an abolitionist hero
Maggots Are an Incredibly Efficient Source of Protein, Which May Make Them the Next Superfood for Humans
Inexpensive to raise and insatiably hungry for trash, black soldier fly larvae are already on the menu for livestock, pets and, maybe soon, people
See the Blades That Carried Boitano to Gold in the ‘Battle of the Brians’ in the 1988 Olympics
The American’s fabled rivalry with Canadian Brian Orser reached its pinnacle in Calgary on these skates, now part of the Smithsonian collection
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE – FEBRUARY 2026 PREVIEW
Donald Trump Wants You to Forget This Happened
January 6, five years later
The Purged
Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.
An Act of Cosmic Sabotage
How Donald Trump tried to ground NASA’s science missions
I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well.
My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – JAN/FEB 2026 PREVIEW
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026
Here are our picks for the advances to watch in the years ahead—and why we think they matter right now.
Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some of their secrets for the first time.
This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air
Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.
AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced.
Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us.
Reason Magazine – February 2026 Preview
REASON MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘New York Turns Red’ – What Zohran Mamdani’s rotten ideas could do to the Big Apple.
Mamdani Can’t Ruin New York
Mayors come and go, but New York City remains fundamentally itself. Katherine Mangu-Ward
Zohran Mamdani’s Socialist Housing Plan Could Crash New York’s Rickety Rental Market
The city has the nation’s most regulated housing sector and the largest stock of government-owned and subsidized housing, and yet progressives blame its real estate troubles on the free market. Howard Husock
Is Zohran Mamdani Coming Around to Housing Deregulation?
New York’s new mayor has moved away from some of his far-left beliefs, acknowledging that private businesses play an important role in homebuilding. Christian Britschgi
NYC Schools Are Losing Students and Burning Cash. Mamdani Could Make the Situation Worse.
New York schools need more choice and better curricula, but the city’s new mayor wants to take choices away. Danyela Souza Egorov
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