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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JULY 20, 2026 PREVIEW

For the World Cup finals soccer players on the field with a city skyline in the background.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Jonathan Blitzer on ICE’s biggest detention center, Zach Helfand on steroids, Jessica Contreras on a family intertwined with A.I., and more.

An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like

Under a new proposal, Administration officials could deny government grants to any group or project on the ground that it didn’t fit the President’s agenda. By Elizabeth Kolbert

When A.I. Is a Member of the Family

A single mom, her two daughters, and the chatbots that fill in the gaps. By Jessica Contrera

Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center

On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design. By Jonathan Blitze

The Lost Art of the Bromance

New books, articles, and shows lament a crisis of connection among American men. But the picture of friendship that emerges can feel romanticized and brittle. By Katy Waldman

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – JULY 23, 2026

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features

An Uncertain Triumphalism

America’s centennial in 1876 was celebrated with a grand exhibition that projected an image of national unity and inventiveness in the anxious aftermath of civil war and recession.

Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future by Fergus M. Bordewich

Hungary: The Flood

Peter Magyar’s landslide electoral victory in April made clear that after sixteen years, Hungarians were tired of Viktor Orbán.

Space Oddity

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism examines how Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, by selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit.

Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff

Song of Our Cells

Though a mystery to Darwin in his lifetime, the constant mutation of our genes is what allows for life’s magnificent diversity.

Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health by Roxanne Khamsi

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JULY 10, 2026 PREVIEW

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features Allen Ginsberg at 100; Shere Hite and the female pleasure principle; Shakespeare’s politics…

Best of enemies

The Iranian regime’s long confrontation with America By Azadeh Moaveni

Allen Ginsberg at 100

Poet, counterculture critic and self-promoter By Douglas Field

Getting real

Do objects exist independently of human experience? By Emily Herring

Forgotten feminist

How Shere Hite put women’s pleasure first By Angela Saini

LITERARY REVIEW MAGAZINE – JULY 2026 PREVIEW

LITERARY REVIEW : The latest issue features ‘Lincoln’s path to power’…

 Delicacy & Steel – Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln

By Matthew Pinsker

Not So Soft Power – Freedom Round the Globe: How the World Made the American Revolution

By Sarah M S Pearsall

Highway Gothic – This Land Is Your Land: On a Road Trip to Make Sense of America

By Beverly Gage

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 26, 2026 PREVIEW

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features

Sexist, sexy or deadly serious?

Critical views of D. H. Lawrence’s notorious novel By Nicholas Murray

Summer books 2026

Thirty-four TLS writers share their holiday reading

Separate and equal

The Declaration of Independence at 250

Infinite test

A showily ingenious novel about the exploitation of attention

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 29, 2026 PREVIEW

The cover of the June 29 2026 issue of The New Yorker which features a museum visitor taking a selfie in front of a...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Tom Gauld’s “Landscape Portrait” – Scenic vacation selfies.

What Science Knows About Grief

After my husband’s death, I had never been more pliable, tender, open, or raw. It was then that I tried E.M.D.R. therapy. By Amanda Petrusich

The Difference Between the Knicks and the White House Cage Fight

Sports, spectacle, and what Juvenal would have made of this moment. By Adam Gopnik

The Teen Believers in a Christian America

For Charlie Kirk’s followers, faith and patriotism are intertwined.

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – JUNE 25, 2026 PREVIEW

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LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features

Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs by Alec Nevala-Lee
The First Fascist: The Life and Legacy of the Marquis de Morès by Sergio Luzzatto

Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev 
by Maxim Gorky, translated by Bryan Karetnyk


The Masquerade: 
A History of Extravagance and Intrigue by Meghan Kobza

THE PARIS REVIEW —- SUMMER 2026 ISSUE

THE PARIS REVIEW : The latest features Interviews, Prose, Poetry and Art….

Harryette Mullen on the Art of Poetry: “I knew I would exhaust myself as subject matter, but I could take something and turn it upside down, inside out, add a few doodads, and that way it would become inexhaustible.”

Yan Lianke on the Art of Fiction:  “I personally didn’t think there was anything anti-war in writing about how an individual might be terrified of battle. I was really writing about my own fear.”

Prose by Lucy Ellmann, Chad Fore, Daisy Hildyard, Chigozie Obioma, Daniel Saldaña París, and Shuang Xuetao.

Poetry by Zain Baweja, Jean Day, Hannah Piette, Frederick Seidel, Shamsher Bahadur Singh, Katana Smith, and Tran Hang My.

Art by Hadi Falapishi, Andrew Kuo, and Hannah Tishkoff; cover by Alex Da Corte.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 22, 2026 PREVIEW

The cover of the June 22 2026 issue of The New Yorker which depicts New York City bursting with color and excitement as...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “After the Comeback” – New Yorkers unite in hope.

Why Todd Blanche Should Not Be Attorney General

In a Senate that took its constitutional role seriously, Blanche would not win confirmation a second time. By Ruth Marcus

Ken Griffin’s Billions and Billions

The hedge-fund titan is an unabashed big spender—from pièds-a-terre to politics. By Gary Sernovitz

Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland

“We want Greenland,” Trump said. Four men sprang into action to make fantasy a reality. By Ben Taub

When Did White-Collar Work Start to Look So Bleak?

In the nineteen-eighties, an office job promised security and fulfillment. For graduates starting careers today, the prospect is often tinged with dread. By Molly Fischer

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 12, 2026 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Forcing our hand?’ – Edward Chancellor on nudge economics….

Hints of evidence

M. John Harrison’s anti-philosophy of the sublime By Nick Holdstock

Who she loved

Mourning a marriage and a creative partnership By Lily Herd

Right question, wrong answer

Cults and the longing for community By Harrison Hill

Hidden persuaders

When behavioural economics meets politics By Edward Chancellor