I land at Heathrow and am met by my blistered checked-in bags. Somewhere between Muscat and London, Oman Air had managed to transfer our luggage…
Read MoreBack in 1997, when liberal capitalism bestrode the Atlantic and history had been abolished, morning came with a newspaper. The paper you got depended not just on your taste, but on where you lived…
Read MoreIt was only now that I remembered none of this was fiction. I’d been living in third-person and I liked it better that way. This was me, with my big legs and my entrails and my thoughts inaudible to other people, sitting waiting for my delayed flight back to London and life without her.
Read MoreIn the department of ——, but it is better not to mention the department. The touchiest things in the world are departments, regiments…
Read MorePeter Dinklage recently reignited a Game of Thrones fan theory with just four words during an acceptance speech at the 2018 Emmys in September…
Read MoreElaine Mokhtefi and her husband had lived on the Upper West Side in New York City for twenty years. When he died in 2015, she brought him a bench in the park on Riverside Drive, where he liked to sit, gazing at the river through a mass of trees.
Read MoreBerners-Lee, who never directly profited off his invention, has also spent most of his life trying to guard it. While Silicon Valley started ride-share apps and social-media networks without profoundly considering the consequences, Berners-Lee has spent the past three decades thinking about little else.
Read More“When I was a teenager, I had to decide. I either left Nigeria. Or I killed myself.” That is how Miss saHHara, a young trans woman, describes the choice she faced, growing up amid transphobic discrimination, and violence.
Read MoreSurveillance capitalism – with smartphones, laptops, and the increasing numbers of ‘internet of things’ devices making up its physical infrastructure, watching and tracking everything we do…
Read MoreOn the shores of Midway Island, the juvenile albatross skeletons encircle a stomach’s worth of plastic shards, pen caps, bottle tops, the insidious end to all species’ endocrine systems innocuously named “nurdles.”
Read MoreWhen you pursue, intimidate, bully or seduce someone you employ, you are breaking a trust and showing an inherent lack of respect.
Read MoreThe incestuous entanglements of the Ontario Hydro One Board of Directors reflects the absurdity of the corporatized regime under which the earth continues to be exploited under the motivations of ‘economic prosperity’.
Read MorePerhaps it seems obvious to you, dear reader, that a professor like myself, established in the academic world as a specialist in Spanish literature, would attempt a translation of a great work in the language.
Read MoreEven as the Web has grown, however, it has narrowed. Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic.
Read MoreAt the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users.
Read MoreEddy is a deromanticised account on all fronts. Divided into two parts and structured as a collection of vignettes, the main frame of the text is a confident reconciliation of the author with his working class background
Read MoreGrossbooted draymen rolled barrels dullthudding out of Prince’s stores
and bumped them up on the brewery float.
Old Jack raked the cinders together with a piece of cardboard and spread them judiciously over the whitening dome of coals.
Read MoreIn 1637, Mary Dyer of Boston gave a monstrous birth and its midwife was Anne Hutchinson. Both were Puritans of-a-kind: Hutchinson the notorious advocate of the so-called “covenant of free grace,” she of the antinomian controversy.
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