Tag Archives: Literary Magazines

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – FEBRUARY 5, 2026 PREVIEW

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features ‘Visions of America’

Made in Tehran

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History  by Vali Nasr.

No King

Daisy Hay

Friends until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution by James Grant.


One Life to Lead: The Mysteries of Time and the Goods of Attachment by Samuel Scheffler


El Cid: 
The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary by Nora Berend



THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – FEBRUARY 2, 2026

Biking delivery workers are carrying food in bright orange boxes during a snow storm in the city.

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

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JANUARY 26, 2026

A woman in the subway is looking at her vacation memories under the gaze of onlookers.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Adrian Tomine’s “Post-Vacation” – Staying warm.

Why Trump Supports Protesters in Tehran but Not in Minneapolis

During the President’s second Administration, universal principles such as self-determination and due process are wielded only opportunistically.

By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

The Lights Are Still On in Venezuela

After the ouster of President Nicolás Maduro, some residents fear that one unelected despot has been swapped for another.

By Armando Ledezma

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – JANUARY 22, 2026 PREVIEW

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…

The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping by Joseph Torigian

The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China by Michael Sheridan

On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the World by Kevin Rudd

Short Cuts: On Venezuela

Cicero: The Man and His Works by Andrew R. Dyck


Buckley: 
The Life and the Revolution that Changed America by Sam Tanenhaus

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JANUARY 19, 2026

Trump guzzles oil from a keg while Venezuela burns in the background.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Barry Blitt’s “Guzzler” – Trump’s thirst for Venezuela.

Donald Trump Was Never an Isolationist

He once defied the G.O.P. by blasting military interventions. But what looked like anti-interventionism is really a preference for power freed from the pretense of principle. By Daniel Immerwahr

Denmark Is Sick of Being Bullied by Trump

The U.S., once Denmark’s closest ally, is threatening to steal Greenland and attacking the country’s wind-power industry. Is this a permanent breakup? By Margaret Talbot

How Marco Rubio Went from “Little Marco” to Trump’s Foreign-Policy Enabler

As Secretary of State, the President’s onetime foe now offers him lavish displays of public praise—and will execute his agenda in Venezuela and around the globe. By Dexter Filkins

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JANUARY 12, 2026

People walking down a freezing street pass a cat snuggly sleeping in a window.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Harry Bliss’s “Wintry Mix” – Braving the cold.

What Will New York’s New Map Show Us?

Voters voted for it, even if they weren’t sure what it was. But maps are the ideal metaphor for our models of what the world might be. By Adam Gopnik

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Big Breakup

The congresswoman split with the President over the Epstein files, then she quit. Where will she go from here? By Charles Bethea

The Making of the First American Pope

Will Pope Leo XIV follow the progressive example of his predecessor or chart a more moderate course? His work in Chicago and Peru may shed light on his approach. By Paul Elie

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 29, 2025

A group of people with party hats on the dance floor.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features “Goodbye to All That,” by Lorenzo Mattotti.

What Zohran Mamdani Is Up Against

When the thirty-four-year-old socialist is sworn in as mayor, he will have to navigate ICE raids, intransigent city power players, and twists of fate and nature. By Eric Lach

Why Millennials Love Prenups

Long the province of the ultra-wealthy, prenuptial agreements are being embraced by young people—including many who don’t have all that much to divvy up. By Jennifer Wilson

Peter Navarro, Trump’s Ultimate Yes-Man

The tariff cheerleader established the template of sycophancy for Trump Administration officials. By Ian Parker

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – DECEMBER 25, 2025 PREVIEW

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features ‘Will the AI Bubble burst?’


Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography 
by Tom Arnold-Forster


The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip 
by Stephen Witt

The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim

Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination by Karen Hao

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race that Will Change the World by Parmy Olson


Alchemy: 
An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments and the Birth of Modern Science by Philip Ball

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 22, 2025

Illustrated figures doing whimsical activities in an M.C. Escher-style building.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Cartoons & Puzzles: A magazine maze, cartoonists on their forebears, Stephen Sondheim’s puzzle love, a hundredth-birthday diary, and more.

The Year In Trump Cashing In

In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of them involving crypto and foreign money. By John Cassidy

In the Wake of Australia’s Hanukkah Beach Massacre

A conversation about the country’s unique Jewish community and rising levels of antisemitism.

The Federal Judge at the Trump Rally

Emil Bove violated a basic tenet of judicial ethics, presumably on purpose. By Ruth Marcus

History’s Judgment of Those Who Go Along

Some civil servants and senior officials in the Trump Administration are experiencing bouts of conscience

Zyzzyva Magazine – WINTER 2025-2026

ZYZZYVA Magazine: The latest issue features…

Nonfiction

“The Fighters” by Joe Donnelly: on being transplanted as a boy from New Jersey to Ireland, and the grim school days spent at Willow Park primary school in Dublin.

“Fire Watching” by Harmony Holiday: a mediation on Los Angeles, its devastating fires, and finding meaning.

“The Deer” by Raia Small: “I have never killed anyone, so I can say that I don’t understand. But I am getting to know my own cruelties …”

Fiction

“A Long Line of Violence” by Tomas Moniz: A duo travels from the Mission District to Lassen Volcanic National Park to return a rifle to its battleground.

“Plums” by Feroz Rather: A young man steals as much time as he can with his beloved among the orchards and buses of his town in Kashmir.

“Viable” by Suzanne Rivecca: “The person I call in situations like this is Colette, the city government version of me, an abstinent ex-junkie disliked by the mayor, with a soft spot for schizophrenics, a love for lancing abscesses, and zero work/life balance.”

Poetry

Brian Ang, Nica Giromini, Kelly Gray, Michael Kennedy Costa, Kayla Krut, Maw Shein Win, Jared Stanley, and John Yau.

In Conversation

Chris Feliciano Arnold talks to Venezuelan scholar, journalist, and poet Boris Muñoz about literature, authoritarianism, and the importance of cronistas.