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COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 24, 2025

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COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features St Michael’s Mount at low tide.

The roads less travelled

Now you see them, now you don’t: Roger Morgan-Grenville treads the ephemeral sea paths of Britain, those often-ancient routes at the mercy of the tides

Spreads from Life Country Life 24 September 2025

A stitch in time

Deborah Nicholls-Lee unearths Mr Darcy’s shirt, Bertie Wooster’s dressing gown and Poldark’s tricorn hat in a fascinating trawl through the Cosprop wardrobes

Property market

A quartet of significant West Country houses is seeking buyers, reports Penny Churchill

Properties of the week

A Devon longhouse, Cornwall cottage and Somerset thatch catch Arabella Youens’s eye

When your art is in the right place

To whom do the experts turn for the best in framing, restoring and valuing? Leading art and antique dealers open their little black books for Amelia Thorpe

Leslie MacLeod Miller’s favourite painting

The impresario picks a portrait of a 19th-century singing sensation

Country-house treasures

The fortunes of a Cumbrian castle rest with the ‘Luck of Muncaster’, finds John Goodall

A Regency prospect

Steven Brindle looks at the remarkable story behind a fine Georgian creation — Samuel Wyatt’s Belmont House in Kent

The legacy

Emma Hughes toasts the genius of Dennis Potter, the man who gave us the darkly comic and gritty Singing Detective

Beginning to see the light

John Lewis-Stempel and his dogs are up with the skylark to witness the dawning of a spectacular September day

Luxury

Amie Elizabeth White on tartan, tweed, timepieces and fruity jewels, plus a few of Victoria Pendleton’s favourite things

Interiors

Amelia Thorpe admires the makeover of a guest bedroom at a Scottish country house and picks the best bedside tables

Plum advice

Charles Quest-Ritson shares his favourite forms of plum, gage, mirabelle and damson from the 20-plus varieties he has grown

Slightly foxed

Second-hand bookshops can be a goldmine of gardening wisdom, says John Hoyland

Scale model

David Profumo is transported back to childhood by the spiny, swashbuckling stickleback

Travel

Mark Hedges takes a break from reality on Bryher, a heather-clad haven in the Isles of Scilly

Arts & antiques

Art dealer John Martin tells Carla Passino why he can never part with a panel he stumbled upon by Nigerian sculptor Asiru Olatunde

Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

Reason Magazine – November 2025 Preview

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REASON MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Culture War Police State’

Culture War Police State

From library books to abortion, gender, and even food, the culture war is now feeding the police state.

‘Botched’ Drug Raids Show How Prohibition Invites Senseless Violence

The war on drugs authorizes police conduct that otherwise would be readily recognized as criminal.

How Civilizations Lose Their Spark—and How We Might Keep Ours

Golden ages teach us a lot about what makes civilizations rise and fall.

Trump’s War on Chocolate: ‘There’s No Way for Us To Source This Domestically’

American chocolatiers need imports, and tariffs help no one.

Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE – SEPT. 21, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 9.21.25 Issue features David Wallace-Wells on how the world has soured on climate politics; Christina Cauterucci on a new brand of climate activism; Brook Larmer on China’s green-tech ambitions; David Gelles interviews six world leaders about their plans to navigate climate change; and more.

It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.

How do we think about the climate future, now that the era marked by the Paris Agreement has so utterly disappeared?

Political Violence Isn’t New. But Something About This Moment Is.

Charlie Kirk’s assassination fits into American history. How does it fit into our politics? By Jia Lynn Yang

How Reese Witherspoon Figured Out Who She Really Is

The actor and producer booked her first big role when she was 14 years old. More than 30 years later, she’s an entertainment-industry powerhouse. By Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

NATIONAL REVIEW – NOVEMBER 2025

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NATIONAL REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘The Trump Effect’

“If President Donald Trump’s careers in real estate development, television, and now politics have taught us anything, it is that he likes to leave his mark (and his name) on everything he touches,” Christine Rosen writes in the new issue of National Review magazine. “Some of those marks, like the profusion of gilt ornaments and gold, Trump-branded coasters in the Oval Office, will almost certainly be removed by future presidents. Others, like the proposed construction of a White House ballroom or his plan to build a ‘Garden of Heroes’ featuring statues of great Americans, are more likely to become permanent parts of the White House and National Mall.”

The Trump Effect: On the Rule of Law

A country in which law is king asks not whether government hardball works but whether it is legal. Andrew C. McCarthy

The Trump Effect: On Our Alliances

U.S. interests aren’t advanced when America’s allies are less confident in Washington and more inclined to accommodate regional bullies. Noah Rothman

The Trump Effect: On Popular Culture

For much of the last decade, Hollywood has been making the same statement: Trump is bad. But they had no idea how to beat him

Arts & Literature, Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – SEPT. 29, 2025 PREVIEW

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The illustrated cover of the September 29 2025 issue of The New Yorker in which Donald Trumps hand holds a remote...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features ‘Barry Blitt’s “Remote Control” – The President’s watch list.

The Grave Threat Posed by Donald Trump’s Attack on Jimmy Kimmel

The President and his allies are using the power of the state to silence speech they dislike. By Isaac Chotiner

The Great Student Swap

For years, public universities have aggressively recruited out-of-state and international students, charging them higher tuition. But those pipelines may be drying up. By Jeffrey Selingo

J. D. Vance, Charlie Kirk, and the Politics-as-Talk-Show Singularity

Broadcasting from the White House, the Vice-President seemed to complete the merger of politics and red-meat live streams—and to threaten more ominous crackdowns ahead. By Andrew Marantz

Culture, Essays, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

HARPER’S MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2025 PREVIEW

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HARPER’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Soldiers Of Misfortune’ – Why the world’s richest military keeps losing wars.

Mission Impossible

The sad state of the American armed forces by Seth Harp

The Good Pervert

A friend’s life, a brutal death by David Velasco

Bedside Manners

Can empathy be taught in medicine? by Rachel Pearson

Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY – SEPTEMBER 19, 2025 PREVIEW

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THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘Divided States’ – Will Charlie Kirk’s Death Change America?

The killing of Charlie Kirk last week sent shock waves through America among both supporters and opponents of his views. Yet until last week, the young rightwing activist was relatively unheard of – by older generations anyway – outside the US.

As the ripples and implications of his death continue to spread across the US and beyond, our big story takes a step back. Washington bureau chief David Smith explains how the young activist rose to prominence and gained a place within Donald Trump’s inner circle, his provocative brand of populism and charisma playing an outsize role in the Republicans’ 2024 election victory. As Steve Bannon, the prominent rightwing commentator, told the Guardian, Kirk’s popularity with young voters “changed the ground game” for Trump and the Maga movement.

Spotlight | Why has England become festooned with flags?
Chief reporter Daniel Boffey visits a Birmingham suburb to track down the genesis of a movement that wants to see the union jacks or the flag of St George displayed across the country

Special investigation | Boris Johnson’s pursuit of profit
A cache of leaked documents show a blurring of lines in the former prime minister’s private business ventures and political role after leaving office, our investigations team reveals

Feature | The porn business stripped bare
In Amsterdam, at Europe’s biggest pornography conference, Amelia Gentleman discovers the perils of a booming industry, from burnout to the advent of AI

Opinion | Trump is just a paper tiger
While the US president likes to present himself as the biggest, baddest strongman, he crumples in the face of Benjamin Netanyahu or Vladimir Putin’s belligerence, says Simon Tisdall

Culture | The power of pure pop
Famous for getting us through lockdowns with her kitchen disco and a stream of catchy hits, Sophie Ellis-Bextor tells Rebecca Nicholson about why the perimenopause is a gift to renewed creativity

Culture, Essays, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2025 PREVIEW

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THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Amend It’

How Originalism Killed the Constitution

A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution. Jill Lepore

Fifty Years After History’s Most Brutal Boxing Match

The Thrilla in Manila nearly killed Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. Vann R. Newkirk II

A Tale of Sex and Intrigue in Imperial Kyoto

A thousand years ago, Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji, the world’s first novel. Who was she? Lauren Groff

Magazines, Research, Science, Technology

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2025

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Voyage to Nowhere’

How a Billionaire’s Plan to Reach Another Star Fell Apart

An abandoned plan to visit another star highlights the perils of billionaire-funded science

When the Rain Pours, the Mountains Move

As warming temperatures bring more extreme rain to the mountains, debris flows are on the rise

New Fossils Could Help Solve Long-standing Mystery of Bird Migration

Tiny fossils hint at when birds began making their mind-blowing journey to the Arctic to breed

Essays, Magazines, Opinion, Science, Technology

THE NEW ATLANTIS — AUTUMN 2025 ISSUE

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THE NEW ATLANTIS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features….

What Comes After Gender Affirmation?

Making transition the first-line treatment for children was a mistake, many health agencies now say. A growing group of psychologists wants to restore the therapeutic relationship.