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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 30, 2025 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (June 23, 2025): The latest issue cover features ‘Christoph Niemann’s “The Bridge”’ – Crossing over the water. By Françoise Mouly Art by Christoph Niemann
Donald Trump and the Iran Crisis
It’s not easy to trust the President to make an optimal decision. For one thing, he is suspicious of nearly every source of information save his own instincts. By David Remnick
The DOGEfather Part II
Joe Gebbia, a RISD grad and an Airbnb billionaire, may soon lead the federal cost-cutting effort known as DOGE. Could there be clues to his methods in his art-school days? By Charles Bethea
How Donald Trump Got NATO to Pay Up
The Administration is strong-arming European nations to do more on behalf of their own defense. Is the strategy working? By Joshua Yaffa
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW – JUNE 22, 2025
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘Which One of These is the Real Sam Alman?
When the New York Avant-Garde Started a Revolution
In “Everything Is Now,” J. Hoberman recreates the theater, film and music scenes that helped fuel the cultural storm of the ’60s.
The Book Cover Trend You’re Seeing Everywhere
Take a genteel painting, maybe featuring a swooning woman. Add iridescent neon type for a shock to the system. And thank (or blame) Ottessa Moshfegh for getting there early.
On the Silk Road, Traces of Once Bustling Intercontinental Trade
A new book of photographs captures the landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once conveyed untold wealth between Europe and China.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE – JUNE 21, 2025
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 6.22.25 Issue features Kevin Roose and Casey Newton on everyone using A.I.; Susan Dominus on creating A.I. avatars of loved ones; Bill Wasik on how A.I. will change the way history is written; Robert Capps on the jobs for humans A.I. will create; Charley Locke on the patterns A.I. can see in human behavior; Kim Tingley on therapy chatbots; and more.
How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost
The inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.
What to Know About the Transgender Rights Movement’s Supreme Court Gamble
A Times examination shows how a landmark case about gender-affirming care for minors was built on flawed politics and uncertain science.
By Nicholas Confessore
Kids Are in Crisis. Could Chatbot Therapy Help?
A number of companies are building A.I. apps for patients to talk to when human therapists aren’t available.
By Kim Tingley
A.I. Can Already See You in Ways You Can’t See Yourself
Some of the technology’s most startling new abilities lie in its perception of humans.
By Charley Locke
REVIEWS: BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2025 (NATURE)
NATURE MAGAZINE (June 20, 2025): The best books in science in 2025
The Infrastructure Book
Sybil Derrible Prometheus (2025)
In 1995, a massive heatwave in Chicago, Illinois, took at least 739 lives. The city authorities assumed that a lack of air conditioning was responsible for most deaths, but an investigation attributed them mainly to social isolation. As Chicago-based engineer Sybil Derrible notes in his penetrating analysis of urban infrastructure: “Technology comes and goes, but infrastructure stays because infrastructure is all about people.” Surveying 16 large cities globally, he investigates water, transport, energy and telecommunications networks.
Free Creations of the Human Mind
Diana Kormos Buchwald & Michael D. Gordin Oxford Univ. Press (2025)
Of the physics Nobel prizes awarded since 2000, “no fewer than seven … stem directly from Einstein’s work in 1905 and 1915”, point out historians of science Diana Buchwald and Michael Gordin. Their brief, appealing book discusses the general theory of relativity and quantum theory, but is preoccupied mainly with Albert Einstein’s life, personality and philosophy, especially his complex relationship with war — including the design of the atomic bomb — and pacifism.
Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact
Keith Cooper Reaktion (2025)
Astronomers observed the first confirmed exoplanet in 1992. Some 5,900 are now known, in about 4,500 planetary systems, with around 1,000 containing several planets, according to NASA. No life has been detected yet, showing just “how rare our planet Earth still is” and how “the imagination imbued within science fiction can only carry us so far”, notes science journalist Keith Cooper. His engaging book, based on interviews with writers and researchers, examines what science fiction has got right and wrong, and what science can learn from it.
Yearning for Immortality
Rune Nyord Univ. Chicago Press (2025)
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS – SUMMER 2025
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS (June 19, 2025): The latest issue of LARB features ‘Submission’ – all new essays, interviews, short fiction, poetry, and art reexamining the complex conditions of power (or a lack thereof).
Emmeline Clein finds pockets of faith in feminist writer Shulamith Firestone’s ostensibly airless spaces;
Jack Lubin examines the relationship between rap and supervised release;
Charley Burlock interrogates the myths surrounding wildfires, grief, and California’s supposed “gasoline trees”;
Cory Bradshaw describes the art and agony involved in making amateur porn;
Nathan Crompton and Andrew Witt discuss the documentary form and photographing Los Angeles
Become a member for all of that and more—including essays and features by Alexander Chee, Elizabeth Rush, and Tal Rosenberg; interviews with Samual Rutter and Abdulrazak Gurnah;
Plus, an excerpt from Yvan Algabé’s Misery of Love; fiction by Erin Taylor, Devin Thomas O’Shea, and A. Cerisse Cohen
Poetry by Farnoosh Fathi, Paula Bohince, John James, Caitlyn Klum, Sawako Nakayasu, and Harryette Mullen;
And art by Carla Williams and Talia Chetrit.
SCIENCE MAGAZINE – JUNE 20, 2025 RESEARCH PREVIEW
SCIENCE MAGAZINE (June 19, 2025): The latest issue features “Plants & Heat”…
Plants Facing the Heat
Can wild plant adaptations help crops tolerate heat?
Wild plant species harbor a vast but largely unknown diversity of temperature stress solutions
Plant microbiomes feel the heat
Rising temperatures change the structure and function of plant microbial communities
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JUNE 21, 2025 PREVIEW
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (June 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘How will this end?‘….
Where will the Iran-Israel war end?
In a worse place if Donald Trump rushes in
To keep Russia out and America in, NATO must spend more
European members need a hard date to boost their defence budgets
Japan’s government bonds: this time it won’t end well
Even as interest costs mount, politicians promise hando
Why MAGA’s pro-natalist plans are ill-conceived
Efforts to deliver a baby boom either fail or cost a fortune
NATURE MAGAZINE – JUNE 19, 2025 – RESEARCH PREVIEW
NATURE MAGAZINE (June 18, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Food Forecast’ – How climate change and adaptation could affect global agriculture…
Minuscule worms form living towers to hunt for food
Scientists observe the nematode’s behaviour in the wild for the first time.
Hungry caterpillars can brew exotic molecules in their guts
Researchers fed moth larvae the chemical building blocks, and the insects’ enzymes did the rest.
A cancer-causing mutation meets its match
In mice, engineered immune cells shrink pancreatic and other tumours bearing a mutant version of the KRAS protein.
A long-predicted cosmic collision might not happen after all
The pull of a third galaxy could yank the Milky Way out of the path of Andromeda.
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – JUNE 26, 2025 PREVIEW
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (June 18, 2025): The latest issue features Joan Didion on the couch; Ocean Vuong’s Failure; The Best-Paid Woman in NYC and Olga Turner Tokarczuk and the mycological turn….
The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius by Patchen Barss
The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the Other 99 per Cent by Conor Niland
The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay by Christopher Clarey
The Roger Federer Effect: Rivals, Friends, Fans and How the Maestro Changed Their Lives by Simon Cambers and Simon Graf
Searching for Novak: The Man behind the Enigma by Mark Hodgkinson
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