LITERARY REVIEW – OCTOBER 2025 ISSUE PREVIEW
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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – OCTOBER 3, 2025 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Sylvia Plath’s Ariel at sixty; The case against progress; Patricial Lockwood’s bag of scraps…
Lioness of God
The sixtieth anniversary ‘heritage’ edition of Ariel By Seamus Perry
The Puritan reflex
Thomas Pynchon’s haunted vision of history By James Marcus
A dashed clever fellow
The wisdom of Bertie Wooster By Tim Lake
Printed by herself
The precocious poetry of Charlotte Brontë By Samantha Ellis
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 6, 2025 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Free Play” – The overwhelming delights of parenting.
Grace and Disgrace
Hope lies not in expecting a late-in-life conversion experience in the Oval Office but in carrying out the ordinary work of civic life. By David Remnick
Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again. By Julian Lucas
Carol Burnett Plays On
The ninety-two-year-old comedy legend has influenced generations of performers. In a string of recent TV roles, she has been co-starring with some of her closest comedic heirs. By Rachel Syme
Where the Battle Over Free Speech Is Leading Us
Doxing, deplatforming, defunding, persecuting, firing, and sometimes killing—all are part of an escalating war over words. What happens next? By Louis Menand
HARPER’S MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2025 PREVIEW
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
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2025 PREVIEW
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
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2025
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
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2025 PREVIEW
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features
David Is Goliath, and That’s Great
Strength wins, not modesty by Seth Mandel
Forgetting What America Means
Next year’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence can’t come soon enough. Both Democrats and Republicans need remedial lessons in basic American principles, stat. by Matthew Continetti
The Despair of the Teacher in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
How can students learn when they can tell a machine to do their work? by Michael Lewis
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – SEPT/OCT 2025 PREVIEW
How these two brothers became go-to experts on America’s “mystery drone” invasion
Two Long Island UFO hunters have been called upon by some domestic law enforcement to investigate unexplained phenomena.
Why Trump’s “golden dome” missile defense idea is another ripped straight from the movies
President Trump has proposed building an antimissile “golden dome” around the United States. But do cinematic spectacles actually enhance national security?
Inside the hunt for the most dangerous asteroid ever
As space rock 2024 YR4 became more likely to hit Earth than anything of its size had ever been before, scientists all over the world mobilized to protect the planet.
Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening
Semiconductor powerhouse TSMC is under increasing pressure to expand abroad and play a security role for the island. Those two roles could be in tension.
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