Tag Archives: Literary Magazines

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – MAY 11 & 18, 2026 PREVIEW

The cover of the May 11  18 2026 issue of The New Yorker on which a worldweary George Washington slouches at a party...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Barry Blitt’s “Red, White, and Kinda Blue” – America’s birthday party.

Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Complicated Commemorations

Donald Trump’s aversion to admitting fault suggests that we will not likely see events that grapple with the nuanced nature of the nation’s history this July 4th. By Jelani Cobb

Was the Declaration of Independence Better Before the Edits?

Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost. By Jill Lepore

Barack Obama Considers His Role in the Age of Trump

The former President remains one of the most popular politicians in the country. What are his obligations to it?

Zyzzyva Magazine —– Spring 2026 Preview

ZYZZYVA Magazine: The latest issue features…

Nonfiction

“Saguaro in the Sea” by Sophia Acuña: on surfing and indigeneity in Southern California, told through collage.

“Care Directive” by Sarah Matsui: a daughter’s attempt to keep her aging father in Hawaii from all sorts of calamity, but having to monitor him from the mainland.

“Triptych: A Biographer’s Sketchbook” by Carolyn Burke: “The Baroness was lively, curious, and still blond at eighty-five. She received me in a flurry of franglais, the mingling of two languages in which we would converse, and put us at ease with pink champagne, her favorite.”

Fiction

“Decoys” by Will Boast: goofing around working at the town supermarket, burning through the days till it all comes to head.

“Lilac Mud” by Anita Felicelli: A Bay Area artist in Amsterdam is approached one night by a man claiming to be a former student, leading to a crisis of identity and purpose.

“Grote geplumaceerde” by Emily Nemens: “Afterward, staring hard at her phone, which was her radio, which was the bearer of bad news, she wondered what mattered at all.”

Poetry

Kevin Cantwell, Geraldine Jorge, Jonathon Keats, Caroline Kessler, and Noelani Piters.

In Conversation

Lydia Kiesling talks to acclaimed author Karen Russell about Russell’s latest novel, The Antidote, and about Russell’s “fascination with foundational myths, the things we choose to know, and the things we choose to ignore or forget.”

Art

Ian Everard

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – MAY 7, 2026 PREVIEW

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features ‘Who Owns The Arctic?’ by Laleh Khalili; De Kooning in Cuba by T.J. Clark; Politics on Speed by William Davies…

Who owns the Arctic?

Laleh Khalili

From the 16th century onwards, as European powers feverishly colonised the world, the possibility of a Northern Sea Route connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Scandinavia to the Bering Strait, tantalised the Dutch and the British as an alternative to the southern routes to Asia and the Americas, which were dominated by Portugal and Spain. But the route only became a reality in the Soviet era, after investments in scientific, economic, industrial and military infrastructure in Siberia. 

Politics on Speed

William Davies

This is what distinguishes hyperpolitics from the mass democracy of the mid-20th century. Symbolic political gestures are now commonplace, but paid membership of organisations and parties has plummeted. The left has failed to find a replacement for trade unions as a basis for collective action in civil society. Political movements are easy to join, and just as easy to leave. 

De Kooning in Cuba

T.J. Clark

De Kooning’s Suburb in Havana is a counter-revolutionary painting. Well, of course. It is counter-revolutionary because it is counter everything, versus everything, lost in suburbia. It wants to show us how hard it had to work to get precisely nowhere. Why nowhere was where it wished to get to is a question it leaves to the viewer. 

Orbán’s Fall

Jan-Werner Müller

Can there be poetic justice in politics? Perhaps once in a lifetime. In 1989, a young Viktor Orbán bravely told the crowds in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square that it was time for the Russians to go home, just as protesters had demanded in 1956; almost four decades later, he was heckled on the campaign trail with the same words.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – MAY 4, 2026 PREVIEW

The cover of the May 4 2026 issue of The New Yorker on which people practice yoga in Central Park.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Tomer Hanuka’s “Spring Salutations” – Central Park flow.

Donald Trump’s Spring Cleaning

The exact reasons are often left vague and the successors to be determined, but people are leaving the Administration—including three Cabinet secretaries. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Can the E.P.A. Survive Lee Zeldin?

The agency, which was founded to protect the environment and human health, has cancelled safety regulations, supported coal, and stopped caring about climate change. By Elizabeth Kolbert

Donald Trump’s Economic Warfare Abroad Comes Home

From tariffs to the war with Iran, the President is blowing up the global economy.

With Susan B. GlasserJane Mayer, and Evan Osnos

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – APRIL 27, 2026 PREVIEW

The cover for the April 27 2026 issue of The New Yorker on which three people are playing a basketball game on a court.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Christoph Niemann’s “West Fourth” – One of the city’s most iconic courts.

J. D. Vance’s Bumpy Ride

It wasn’t the first time that Trump had debased someone who serves him. It wasn’t even the first time that Vance had had to downplay a blasphemy-themed A.I. image. By Amy Davidson Sorkin

When Your Digital Life Vanishes

A broken phone or corrupted drive can mean the loss of work, evidence, art, or the last traces of the dead. But sometimes data-recovery experts can summon lost files from the void. By Julian Lucas

How Professional Wrestling Prepared Linda McMahon for Trump’s Cabinet

The Education Secretary ran the W.W.E. for years with her husband, Vince, an unstable man who, like her new boss, has a genius for inflaming the crowd. By Zach Helfand

Was Raphael the Runt of the Renaissance?

Many have called him boring, a peddler of simpleminded beauty. At the Met, a blockbuster exhibition restores his standing. By Zachary Fine

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – APRIL 23, 2026 PREVIEW

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features

At the National Gallery: Holbein and Henry James

The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way out of the Stone Age by Steven Mithen

Surf’s Up: Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys by Peter Doggett

Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Seduction, Intrigue and Power by Sonia Purnell

Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India by Srinath Raghavan

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – APRIL 20, 2026 PREVIEW

A young girl in her stroller comes nosetonose with a dolledup doggie in a pet pram.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Meet-Cute” – The next generation.

Trump’s Strategic and Moral Failure in Iran

From the first day of his Presidency, Trump has posed an emergency to both his country and the world. By David Remnick

The Car-Crash Conspiracy

High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy. By Patrick Radden Keefe

St. Paul Remade Human History. How Did He Do It?

New scholarship reconsiders the apostle who turned a Jewish sect into a world religion—and whose legacy remains contested two millennia later.
By Adam Gopnik

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – APRIL 13, 2026 PREVIEW

The cover of the April 13 2026 Future Issue of The New Yorker in which a man smiles as he types on a screen attached to...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Christoph Niemann’s “New Horizons” – Technology and the future.

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth’s Warped Vision of the Iran War

The two men might wish that they lived in a world where whoever dropped the most bombs got whatever he wanted. But the war has shown that this isn’t true. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Why Are People Injecting Themselves with Peptides?

Health and wellness influencers are hawking unapproved treatments on the gray market. The future of the F.D.A.—and the health of consumers—is at stake. By Dhruv Khullar

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

By Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – APRIL 6, 2026 PREVIEW

The cover of the April 6 2026 issue of The New Yorker in which construction workers toil under a city street as people...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Parallel Lives” – Around and under construction.

What Was Behind the T.S.A. Meltdown?

The present mess has roots in two entangled, defining White House projects: DOGE and the mind-bending expansion of ICE. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Trump’s War Hits the Chaiwalas

Restrictions and attacks in the Strait of Hormuz have made fuel prices rocket. Just ask the roadside tea venders in New Delhi. By Nathan Heller

He Helped Stop Iran from Getting the Bomb

A former C.I.A. officer says that he recruited scientists as part of the United States’ effort to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program. By David D. Kirkpatrick

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – APRIL 2, 2026 PREVIEW

Contents · Vol. 48 No. 6 · 02 April 2026

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features ‘Patricia Lockwood on Willa Cather, Tom Johnson on early modern work, various political analyses, reviews, poetry, and a diary entry on Serbian student movements. 

The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop by Garrett Peck

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather


The Experience of Work in Early Modern England 
by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb and Taylor Aucoin


Caillebotte: 
Painting Is a Serious Game by Amaury ChardeauGustave Caillebotte: Painting Men edited by Scott Allan, Gloria Groom and Paul Perrin