LITERARY REVIEW – JULY 2025
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FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2025 PREVIEW
FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE (06.30.25): The latest issue features ‘The Historical Presidency’ – Nine essays on what the global past reveals about our confounding present…
The End of Modernity
A crisis is unfolding before our eyes—and also in our heads. By Christopher Clark
Why Compare the Present to the Past?
Thinking via historical analogy has become the preferred way to confront our anxieties. Ivan Krastev, Leonard Benardo
Is This an American Cultural Revolution?
Liberal critics charge Trump with creating a cult of personality not unlike Mao Zedong’s. Julia Lovell, Nicholas Guyatt
Russia Has Started Losing the War in Ukraine
The military tide may have turned against Putin. Michael Kimmage
APOLLO MAGAZINE – JULY/AUGUST 2025
APOLLO MAGAZINE (06.30.25): The latest issue features ‘Queen Sonja pops to the Factory’…
In this issue
The Queen of Norway’s very modern art collection
The Gilded Age – is greed good again?
Emily Kam Kngwarray lights up Tate Modern
An interview with Erin Shirreff
Plus: Cinecittà in focus, Wangechi Mutu at the Galleria Borghese, the light touch of Antoine Watteau, Egypt’s new home for antiquities, how polenta caused a stir in Venice, the Aspen art scene continues to snowball, and the revival of London’s art market; in reviews: Amy Sherald’s portraits, King James VI and I’s cultural legacy, and what is a Jewish country house?
Queen Sonja pops to the Factory
The rocky history of Lismore Castle
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JULY 7 & 14, 2025 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Malika Favre’s “Literary Heights”…
Trump, Congress, and the War Powers Resolution
How we got to a situation where a President can reasonably claim that it is lawful, without congressional approval, to bomb a country that has not attacked the U.S. By Jeannie Suk Gersen
Anne Enright’s Literary Journeys to Australia and New Zealand
The Booker Prize-winning author recommends three works by writers who, thanks to geography, may have never received their due.
What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education. By Hua Hsu
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE – JUNE 29, 2025
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 6.29.25 Issue features C.J. Chivers on the hundreds of cheap, long-range drones Russia is launching at Ukranian civilians at night; Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Trump administration’s dismantling of civil rights protections within the federal government; Parul Sehgal on the state of the modern biography; David Marchese interviews Andrew Schulz; and more.
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
An assault on federal protections may bring about a new era of unchecked discrimination.
The Weapon That Terrorizes Ukrainians by Night
How Russia’s terrifying long-range drone program has brought about a deadly new phase in the war. By C.J. Chivers and Finbarr O’Reilly
Trump Got the Fight He Wanted. Did It Turn Out the Way He Expected?
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE – JULY/AUGUST 2025
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE (June 27, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Hemingway in Pamplona’….
A Search for the World’s Best Durian, the Divisive Fruit That’s Prized—and Reviled
Devotees of the crop journey to a Malaysian island to find the most fragrant and tasty specimens
Tom Downey Photographs by Annice Lyn
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of ‘Jaws’ With 15 Shark Snapshots
Archaeologists Say They’ve Pieced Together the Ancient Fragments of the ‘World’s Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle’
SCIENCE MAGAZINE – JUNE 27, 2025 RESEARCH PREVIEW
All-seeing eye
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to transform astronomy. Its wide and fast survey will discover billions of dynamic objects while building up a deep map of the universe
Microbe with tiny genome may evolve into a virus
With DNA focused almost entirely on replication, newly discovered organism blurs the line between cells and viruses
Congress shows signs of resisting proposed science cuts
Lawmakers reject some cuts, question others
Radio bursts reveal universe’s ‘missing matter’
Mystery signals used to locate gases in the spaces between galaxies
THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW – SUMMER 2025 PREVIEW
Corporate America’s Ideological Tilt: An Introduction
Rosolino A. Candela, Caleb S. Fuller
Beyond Interest: What May Motivate DEI
Douglas J. Den Uyl
Philosophy, Law and Culture of Liberal Democracy and the Authoritarian Challenge
By Suri Ratnapala
Reviewed by Paul Dragos Aligica
Martin Van Buren: America’s First Politician
By James M. Bradley
Reviewed by Garion Frankel
Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word
By Michael Sonenscher
Reviewed by Richard M. Salsman
NATURE MAGAZINE – JUNE 26, 2025 – RESEARCH PREVIEW
This tiny robot moves mini-droplets with ease
Magnetially controlled device can combine or split microlitre-sized droplets.
Sensors pinpoint the exact time of a Yellowstone explosion
Data could help to reveal the warning signs of potentially dangerous eruptions caused by liquid groundwater abruptly turning into gas.
One dose of gene therapy gives years of relief from blood disorder
The average number of bleeding episodes for men with haemophilia B dropped almost tenfold after treatment.
Why pangolins are poached: they’re the tastiest animal around
Trafficking of scales for traditional medicine plays a relatively small part in the hunting of pangolins in Nigeria.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 27, 2025 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (June 25, 2025): In this week’s TLS , If all Russian writers are supposed to have come out of Gogol’s Overcoat, then “all American literature”, according to Ernest Hemingway, “comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn”. James Marcus reviews Ron Chernow’s 1,200-page biography of Twain – the Great American Novel seems fated to be twinned with the Great American Door-Stopper.
Inventing a history
How Stalin shaped the Soviet collective memory By Bryan Karetnyk
‘A dear little genius’
Mark Twain and the making of an American literary revolution By James Marcus
Triumph at Camp David, disaster in Iran
Jimmy Carter’s abrasive foreign policy adviser and rival to Henry Kissinger By Edward N. Luttwak
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