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National Geographic Traveller – April 2024

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National Geographic Traveller Magazine (March 8, 2024): The latest issue features the Greek Islands. Plus, embark on a walking safari in Zambia, chase the midnight sun on a train trip in Norway and discover the German flavours of Cincinnati.

Also inside this issue:

Zambia: Become one with the landscape on a walking safari in South Luangwa National Park.

Norway: Black coffee and crystalline fjords on a multi-day train tour beneath the midnight sun.

Bhutan: In this tiny Himalayan nation, valleys plunge, mountains soar and traditions bind.

Philippines: Plan the ultimate island-hopping adventure to the pearl of the Western Pacific.

São Paulo: In Brazil’s most populous city, every gig and gallery reflects the diversity of its people.

Ghent: With its innovative art spaces and left-field restaurants, this city’s rebel spirit lives on.

Kosovo: Explore the Balkan nation’s deep-forested hills, gushing waterfalls and fresco-adorned monasteries.

Cincinnati: German flavours abound in the bakeries and breweries of this Ohio city.

Vienna: From jazz age revamps to culinary havens, these hotels embrace the sound and flavour of the city.

Plus,picks from the 60th Venice Biennale; tours and tastings in England’s vineyards; the flavours of Provence; the best music hotspots in Bristol; where to stay in Denver; a family getaway in Sicily; a city break in Gdansk; a coastal escape in Northumberland; the best food and travel reads; and kit for campervanning.

We talk with author Adam Alexander and the hunt for Rajasthan’s lost chilli, and Simon Reeve on his latest TV series, the beauty of the wild and more. In our Ask the Experts section, the experts give advice advice on driving from London to Lake Garda, treehouse stays for UK bluebell season and family adventures in Sri Lanka. The Info delves into Walpurgis Night, while Hot Topic explores the end of the 100ml liquid rule in UK airports and the Report asks whether the voluntourism industry can truly help those in need.

The Economist Magazine – March 9, 2024 Preview

And they’re off. What could upend America’s election?

The Economist Magazine (March 7, 2024): The latest issue features Three big risks that might tip America’s presidential election – Third parties, the Trump trials and the candidates’ age introduce a high degree of uncertainty; Xi Jinping’s hunger for power is hurting China’s economy; How to fix the Ivy League – Its supremacy is being undermined by bad leadership…

And they’re off. What could upend America’s election?

Politics: The Guardian Weekly – March 8, 2024

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The Guardian Weekly (March 7, 2024) – The new issue features Faint hope of return for Rohingya people. Plus: a journey through Ukraine

It was August 2017 when the world really started to take note of Myanmar’s Rohingya people. Descendants of Arab Muslims who speak a different language to most other people in Myanmar, the Rohingya had up to that point lived mainly in the northern Rakhine state, coexisting uneasily alongside the majority Buddhist population.

But the Rohingya were reviled by many as illegal immigrants and treated by the then government as stateless people. In 2017, when violence broke out in the north of the state, security forces supported by Buddhist militia launched a “clearance operation” that forced more than 1 million Rohingya people to flee their homes and the country, actions that many onlookers saw as ethnic cleansing. Most Rohingya were driven into vast refugee camps in the Cox’s Bazar region of Bangladesh, where they have remained ever since.

The Guardian global development reporter Kaamil Ahmed has been covering the Rohingya crisis for almost a decade, making multiple trips to the region. For this week’s Big Story, Kaamil returned to Cox’s Bazar where, in two moving reports, he details how disease and illness are widespread in the ramshackle camps, and how the desperation to escape has resulted in rich business for people traffickers.

And, with Myanmar now controlled by a military junta and introducing a deeply unpopular conscription drive (as Rebecca Ratcliffe and Aung Naing Soe report), the prospect of any Rohingya people being able to return home to Rakhine state remains as distant as it did in 2017.

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement-March 8, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (March 6, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Talking about their generation’ – James Campbell and Douglas Field on the Beats including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; Alexandra Reza on Frantz Fanon; Miranda France on Montserrat Roig….

Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – March 11, 2024

Barbie slaps Oppenheimer at the Academy Awards.
Art by Barry Blitt

The New Yorker (March 4, 2024): The new issue‘s cover features Barry Blitt’s “Slappenheimer” – The artist revisits the infamous Oscars slap to riff on the tensions of this year’s ceremony.

Joe Biden’s Last Campaign

Joe Biden photographed at his desk in the Oval Office by Thea Traff.

Trailing Trump in polls and facing doubts about his age, the President voices defiant confidence in his prospects for reëlection.

By Evan Osnos

Forty-Three Mexican Students Went Missing. What Really Happened to Them?

A man looks at photos of the missing students.

One night in 2014, a group of young men from a rural teachers’ college vanished. Since then, their families have fought for justice.

By Alma Guillermoprieto

Books: Literary Review Magazine – March 2024

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Literary Review – March 1, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Gaughin’s Midlife Crisis’; Geology vs Genesis; Japan’s War Trials; Saddam’s Blunderers and Barbara Comyns in Full…

Comedian Who Got Serious

“The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky” By Simon Shuster

As someone who has to consume quite a lot of Russian media, I can tell you that if there is one common denominator, it’s that whether we’re talking about a shouty TV news programme (less Newsnight, more a kind of geopolitical Jeremy Kyle Show), a stodgy government newspaper of record or a racy tabloid, no one has a good word for Volodymyr Zelensky. 

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Kubrick: An Odyssey By Robert P Kolker

There are, I have long suspected, two types of cinephiles: those who think Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a masterpiece and those who think it’s a relentless bore. Early in their new biography of the film director, Kubrick: An Odyssey, Robert P Kolker and Nathan Abrams make clear which camp they belong to, describing the scene in which the astronaut Frank Poole jogs around (and around and around and around) the spaceship Discovery as ‘one of the most lyrical passages in film history’. 

CULTURE: FRANCE-AMÉRIQUE MAGAZINE – MARCH 2024

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France-Amérique Magazine – March 1, 2024 –  The new issue features ‘Francophonie Month’ – The French-Speaking Cowboys of Louisiana.

 Meet Drake LeBlanc, the French- and Creole-speaking cowboy, filmmaker, and cofounder of Télé-Louisiane; read our interview with Harvard professor Claire-Marie Brisson on the North American Francosphere; and discover why “Molière may be dead, but his language is alive and well.”

CYRIL DEWAVRIN – The American Dream of a Serial Bookseller

Founding a French neighborhood bookstore in New York City was the madcap challenge undertaken by this avid reader and busy entrepreneur. The Frenchman has just opened La Joie de Vivre near Chelsea, a space offering books in French and English, coffee, and pastries.

By Benoît Georges

Also in this issue, Albert Camus travels to America; former ambassador Gérard Araud analyzes the White House race and its potential consequences for France and Europe; and French soccer star and LGBTQ+ advocate Marinette Pichon discusses her U.S. career and her fight for equality in women’s sports.

The Economist Magazine – March 2, 2024 Preview

How high can markets go?

The Economist Magazine (February 22, 2024): The latest issue features ‘How high can markets go?; Le Pen prepares for power; India’s north-south divide; A plan for Russia’s assets…

How high can markets go?

Research Preview: Science Magazine – March 1, 2024

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Science Magazine – February 29, 2024: The new issue features ‘Protoplanetary Disk’ – Ultraviolet radiation drives rapid mass loss; What awaits scientist who take the witness stand; Nitrogen sneaks into carbon’s reaction; Endocannabinoids help shape spatial representation…

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    Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement-March 1, 2024

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    Times Literary Supplement (February 28, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Married to Mr. Hardy’ – The writer’s complicated relationships with women; Southern discomfort; a bad deal on Wall Street…