The New York Review of Books (October 31, 2024)– The latest issue featuresCoco Fusco on yearning to breathe free, Elaine Blair on Rachel Cusk, Fintan O’Toole on Trump’s predations, Ruth Bernard Yeazell on John Singer Sargent, Michelle Nijhuis on the disasters wrought by remaking nature for human ends, Clair Wills on Janet Frame, Andrew Raftery on the Declaration of Independence, Rozina Ali on evangelical missionaries in Afghanistan and Iraq, A.S. Hamrah on the Trump biopic, Tim Parks on Nathaniel Hawthorne, poems by John Kinsella and Emily Berry, and much more.
The Islamic Republic’s sordid proxy war with the West may now be leaving it open to an all-out attack as Israel attempts to eliminate its enemies throughout the region.
Spotlight | Israel and Iran’s war comes out of the shadows The Observer’s Simon Tisdall considers the consequences for the region of Israel’s weekend missile strikes on Iran
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Environment | The Colombian warlord who reneged on deforestation As the Cop16 nature summit in Colombia comes to a close, Luke Taylor tells a story that highlights the country’s complex relationship between environmental aspiration and political will
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Feature | The brain collector Using cutting-edge methods, Alexandra Morton-Hayward is unravelling the extraordinary mysteries of grey matter – even as hers betrays her. By Kermit Pattison
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Opinion | It’s time to tell it how it is: Trump has fascist instincts Those who know him best use the F-word to describe the former president. Every warning light is flashing red, argues Jonathan Freedland
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Culture | The intersection of art and war in Ukraine Poets, artists, playwrights and musicians are fighting and dying in Ukraine, and their work is capturing the horror and emotion of the conflict, finds Charlotte Higgins
Prospect Magazine (October 30, 2024)– The latest issue features Francis Fukuyama sets out what is at stake if Donald Trump wins, an investigation reveals how much councils spend on temporary accommodation and Sarah Manavis examines why some women are drawn to misogyny
Make no mistake: Donald Trump is a demagogue
The Republican candidate has already damaged American democracy and the wider liberal order. Worse is to come by Francis Fukuyama\
‘You wouldn’t let a dog suffer like this’: should assisted dying be legal?
Times Literary Supplement (October 30, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Scare Stories’ – On modern horror. Asked why he liked horror films, or terror films as he preferred to call them, Kingsley Amis wrote: “like Mark Twain on a dissimilar occasion, I have an answer to that: I don’t know”. He viewed horror as purely “harmless” entertainment. That explanation might satisfy teenage addicts, but moralists, psychologists and literary critics are inclined to examine the bloody entrails of the genre to divine deeper truths.
Apollo Magazine (October 28, 2024): The new issue features ‘A new look for Japanese art’; Are prints the next big thing; Chicago’s answer to William Morris…
In this issue
• New Japanese galleries at the MFA Boston
• Are prints the next big thing?
• What makes Christian Marclay tick?
• Chicago’s answer to William Morris
Also: collecting haute couture, marvellous pre-Ming ceramics, a preview of Asian Art in London; and reviews of Surrealism at the Pompidou, lost London interiors and a new life of Mies Van der Rohe. Plus Lucy Ellmann on a troubling trompe l’oeil painting of a cat behind bars
Studies increasingly suggest that a healthy nation depends on a healthy democracy. By Dhruv Khullar
The Improbable Rise of J. D. Vance
“Hillbilly Elegy” made him famous, and his denunciations of Donald Trump brought him liberal fans. Now, as a Vice-Presidential candidate, he’s remaking his image as the heir to the MAGA movement. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
The Aid Workers Who Risk Their Lives to Bring Relief to Gaza
As the war grinds on, logistical challenges are compounded by politics, repeated evacuations, and…By Dorothy Wickenden
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (October 27, 2024): The latest issue features David Gaubey Herbert on building a cheerleading empire; Elisabeth Zerofsky on the historian Robert Paxton; Jonathan Mahler on the tech billionaires who became major G.O.P. donors; and more.
For decades, the sport has been shaped in large part by one company — and one man.
Nikki Jennings started cheering when she was 4 years old. She was small and flexible and became a flyer, a human baton spinning and twisting through the air before being caught by teammates. Until sometimes she wasn’t: She got her first concussion in the third grade.
Is It Fascism? A Leading Historian Changes His Mind.
Robert Paxton thought the label was overused. But now he’s alarmed by what he sees in global politics — including Trumpism.
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