Monday morning magazine roundup

Slow news week for Time, which cooks up a “Chore Wars” cover pitting men and women against each other when it comes to housework, then declaring a truce (“Men and women, it turns out, work the same amount”). Inside Rana Foroohar suggests we don’t need to balance the budget, and Richard Haas declares “it’s time for nation building at home.”

Newsweek goes sensational—as usual—with its “exlcusive,” “The DSK maid speaks” cover, with “The Murdoch mayhem” hyped on a bottom strip.

Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford—“When Bond met Indy”--grace Entertainment Weekly’s cover, on account of their teaming in Cowboys & Aliens.

Once you get past Billboard’s Mayra Veronica false cover ad, the real one promotes its “Fall Preview 2011” with 24 “most-anticipated releases” (including Lady Antebellum, Tony Bennett, Mary J. Blige, Drake, and Evanescence) and five “hot fall tours.” Oh, yeah: It’s Bjork on the true cover, with the question whether her all-app album is the future of music--though they might also ask whether her immense red mane is the future of hairstyling, and her giant handful of what looks to be congealed rice is the future of food.

Over at The Hollywood Reporter, the Entourage entourage is pictured, with “the untold stories behind” it featured. Scientology’s Hollywood real estate empire and “Murdoch’s disaster” are also spotlighted.

The Murdoch disaster is The New Yorker’s lead story, its cover a nice illustration of a man marooned on a tiny tropical ocean island—and sitting up against a windmill. Top stories also include “What happened to the [Egyptian] revolution?” and Sasha Frere-Jones’ take on “hippie band” My Morning Jacket.

Finally, New York proclaims The New York Times “the last great paper standing” on its cover, the story revealing how the Grey Lady brought itself “back from the brink.”

End note: Obviously, deadlines prevented any mention anywhere of the week’s two biggest stories—both horrible: the Norway massacre, and Amy Winehouse.