If America wants to maintain its lead, it should focus less on keeping China down
Elsewhere, political dysfunction and fiscal frailties are taking a toll
Times Literary Supplement (June 13, 2024): The latest issue features Freud’s Discontents – George Prochnik on the father of psychology; A great novel on the American Frontier; Death becomes them – The mourning rituals of the Victorians; Cover-up – An atrocity committed by US troops in the Philippines….
Ras Al Khaimah: The Emirate state of mountains, deserts and coastline is now emerging as an adventure hub
Cape Verde: The West African archipelago is prime hiking country, with ancient trails running through farms and mountains
Slovakia: The past is felt with every step in the central region of Horehronie, home to lush valleys and a diverse folk culture
Peru: Unforgettable itineraries through which to discover the nation’s cuisine, culture and complex history
Barcelona: There’s always time for one more cocktail on streets peppered with clandestine speakeasies
Hamburg: Wedded to the water, Germany’s ‘gateway to the world’ has long welcomed the tides of change
Danish Lakes:Dive into the waters around Silkeborg, where wild swimming spots mingle with fairytale forests
South Devon: Award-winning wines, local rums and stellar farm shops in the south west
Rome: Savour the Eternal City with a stay that incorporates its rich history, from secluded boutiques to grand palazzi
Plus, The return of Liguria’s much-loved Via dell’Amore; Ireland’s new national park; the story of Belgian cuisine; Tartu’s best hotels; a salsa-lovers guide to Cali, Colombia; Alpine thrills in Austria; a UK break in North Staffordshire; books for the summer months and kit for family trips to the coast.
We talk with author Sophie Yeo on the legacy of ice fishing in the Finnish wilderness, and ranger Edward Ndiritu on the future of anti-poaching in central Kenya. In our Ask the Experts section, the experts give advice on planning a food tour in Malaysia, low-impact French hiking holidays and more. The Info peeks behind the curtain of the Edinburgh Fringe, while Hot Topic explores the state of travel in Cyprus 50 years since its division. After a look at the winning images of this year’s Photo Competition, photographer Ulf Svane discusses distilling the magic of Phuket’s Vegetarian Festival for our June issue in How I got the shot.
Country Life Magazine (June 11, 2024): ‘The Green Issue’ features How to make the Countryside beautiful again….
As the General Election looms large, we present our practical 10-point plan that could make a real difference to the planet
Soil is both full of life and the very stuff of life, so it’s high time we stopped treating it like dirt, suggests Sarah Langford
Building ‘ecoducts’ to connect wildlife habitats separated by road and rail is the way forward, argues John Lewis-Stempel
Jane Wheatley meets the biodynamic farmers following the lunar calendar to tend their crops in tune with Nature
What happened to the golden fleece? Harry Pearson tracks the fall of wool from medieval marvel to unwanted by-product
Madeleine Silver profiles the people, places and products currently turning heads with genuinely green credentials
Helen Scales wades in to forage for seaweed, seeking everything from sea spaghetti to sugar kelp
James Alexander-Sinclair talks to John Little about the amazing diversity of his garden in Essex
Royal favourite Edward Seago lived a life as vibrant, varied and colourful as his paintings, discovers Peyton Skipwith
The commanding officer of the Coldstream Guards chooses a majestic portrait of Elizabeth II
Minette Batters celebrates the remarkable recovery of grey partridge on the South Downs
In the first of two articles, John Goodall examines the creation of Wolterton Hall in Norfolk
Russell Higham applauds the enduring appeal of Britain’s elegant Victorian bandstands
David Austen dedicated his life to creating the perfect English rose, as Tiffany Daneff reveals
Hetty Lintell casts her net far and wide for fishy accessories
Giles Kime hails designers who are at one with the environment
The Dunvegan Castle gardens are a verdant oasis on the Isle of Skye, finds Caroline Donald
Wormwood is an old absinthe ingredient best kept at arm’s length, advises John Wright
The truly disquieting thought was that the cult of personality around the Prime Minister had become suffocating and seemingly impossible to pierce—until now. By Isaac Chotiner
After Governor Kathy Hochul’s flip-flop on congestion pricing, a cop reconsiders his retirement while inching his Lexus through snarled-up traffic on the F.D.R.
By Ben McGrath
Many left-leaning, middle-class Americans speak of kids as though they are impositions, or means to an end.
By Jay Caspian Kang
In the Renaissance, reading became both a passion and a pose of detachment—for those who could afford it—from the pursuits of wealth and power.
A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe by Lina Bolzoni, translated from the Italian by Sylvia Greenup
Untold Futures: Time and Literary Culture in Renaissance England
The scholar Louis Chude-Sokei does the urgent work of reimagining the African diaspora as multiple diasporas.
Floating in a Most Peculiar Way by Louis Chude-Sokei
The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora by Louis Chude-Sokei
The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics by Louis Chude-Sokei
by Rick Lewis
A famous parable dating back to ancient India involves some blind monks encountering an elephant. The monks each touch just one part of the elephant, and afterwards they compare notes. One declares that the creature feels like a snake, another that it has a shape like a tree trunk and so on. Like many parables, you can interpret it in different ways, but it seems to be saying that even for something that is an objectively real part of the world, like an elephant, it is possible to have different subjective views of it, all of which may be valid.Jim Mepham quests with philosophers to discover what makes a life good.
Rob Glacier says don’t just live in the now.
Michael Allen Fox wonders whether life really is ‘a precious gift’.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – June8 , 2024: The latest issue features
The hedge fund manager is launching a publicly traded fund—and planning an IPO for his investment management firm.Long read
Endorsement deals and possible direct payments to athletes from their universities mean that student athletes must navigate a whole new landscape.Long read
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A Trump victory would reward them. But not enough to justify the risks
The peninsula is becoming a death trap for the Kremlin’s forces
There is more to AI than ChatGPT
The Week In Art Podcast (June 7, 2024): This week: we explore the Art Institute of Chicago’s exhibition dedicated to what Georgia O’Keeffe called her New Yorks—paintings of skyscrapers and views from one of them across the East River, which marked a turning point in her career.
Sarah Kelly Oehler, one of the curators of the show, tells us more. One of the most distinctive of all London’s contemporary art spaces, Studio Voltaire, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and has begun a fundraising drive to consolidate its future, with a gala dinner this week and a Christie’s auction later this month. We talk to the chair of Studio Voltaire’s trustees and a non-executive director of Frieze, Victoria Siddall, about the anniversary and the precarious funding landscape, even for the UK’s most dynamic non-profits.
And this episode’s Work of the Week is an untitled painting from the Austrian painter Martha Jungwirth’s 2022 series Francisco de Goya, Still Life with Ribs and Lamb’s Head. Based on a work by the Spanish master in the Louvre in Paris, Jungwirth’s painting features in a new survey of her work that has just opened at the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain. We speak to its curator, Lekha Hileman Waitoller.
Georgia O’Keeffe: My New Yorks, Art Institute of Chicago, until 22 September; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, from 25 October-16 February 2025.
The date of XXX, as the sale of works to benefit Studio Voltaire at Christie’s is called, is yet to be confirmed. Check the organisations’ websites for updates; Beryl Cook/Tom of Finland, Studio Voltaire, London, until 25 August.
Martha Jungwirth, Guggenheim Bilbao, until 22 September.
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