I had left Ozy Media in 2017 without exercising my stock options, believing the likeliest outcome for the company was... | Continue reading
Wherever you look, the earth is in flames. The residue is carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, black carbon,... | Continue reading
‘Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth’ may sound like a boast, but it’s a simple statement of... | Continue reading
We require reproductive workers and feminised people in general to be on call, 24/7, just in case hubby or baby or the... | Continue reading
Life as an anchoress began with a death. On entering their cell for the first time, the recludensus (novice recluse)... | Continue reading
The first true crime craze – the distant antecedent of our own docu-drama craze – proved to be an essentially... | Continue reading
This is a counterhistory of using rather than reading, of books as artefacts that might furnish a room or build a legacy... | Continue reading
The Book of Disquiet is almost about philosophy; its tone is often casual and then deliberate. Pessoa loves aphorism,... | Continue reading
Richard Wright wasn’t interested in the structures of support or mutual aid that enabled black people to survive as a... | Continue reading
The index gave its users formidable power to find and quote adages and examples, narratives and poems, scriptural and... | Continue reading
Perhaps kokumi will put an end to the misery of people who buy low-fat, low-salt food while secretly wishing they were... | Continue reading
The index gave its users formidable power to find and quote adages and examples, narratives and poems, scriptural and... | Continue reading
Most firms operate as partnerships and, apart from Glencore, none has chosen to go public and expose itself to the... | Continue reading
Until twelve thousand years ago, mammoths roamed the northern hemisphere on the ‘mammoth steppe’, a huge expanse of... | Continue reading
How can a libertarian be comfortable cosying up to sovereign wealth funds, the military-industrial establishment and the... | Continue reading
Most firms operate as partnerships and, apart from Glencore, none has chosen to go public and expose itself to the... | Continue reading
Scores of former agents have exposed CIA crimes and defeats in books, films and articles. In the wake of American... | Continue reading
The city is built on a gentle slope, an outcropping of limestone, with the amphitheatre close to the top. There are... | Continue reading
Though billed as an optimistic vision of ‘Pan American Unity’, Rivera’s mural has an ominous quality: we can see... | Continue reading
We construct borders, literally and figuratively, to fortify our sense of who we are; and we cross them in search of who... | Continue reading
The Russian state lab in Sochi was the official drug testing facility for the whole games. As head of the lab, Grigory... | Continue reading
For a short while the highest point of the New York skyline was marked by a girl standing on tiptoe. At night she was... | Continue reading
I had the constant sense that the next small edit would balance the whole thing out and I was always wrong. A branching... | Continue reading
‘Traditional Russian spiritual-moral and cultural-historical values are under active attack from the USA and its... | Continue reading
It would be a pusillanimous reader who could not respond to the appeal of a cosmos so complete in every detail, arrayed... | Continue reading
Correctors worked long hours, bent over proofs, smeared in thick ink. Scraping by on low wages, they lived alone in... | Continue reading
Female husbands expressed their masculinity through their choice of clothing, names, behaviours and, above all, their... | Continue reading
Eve Babitz navigates the city’s highs and lows during weekday mornings spent ‘maniacally’ roller-skating with her... | Continue reading
The violin does a nightingale, the clarinet a blackbird. The movement does not develop in any way; the isorhythmic... | Continue reading
The question I am asking is whether, looking at ourselves from outside, we should come to view our attachment to rights... | Continue reading
Edward Gorey’s imagery is in debt to the Surrealists, and, at times, in its use of line, to Aubrey Beardsley, but... | Continue reading
Fungi are diffuse, plastic beings: they reform themselves around the problem at hand. ‘Mycelium’, says Merlin... | Continue reading
Ancient anatomists drew what scanty conclusions they could about the inner workings of humans from pigs and dogs;... | Continue reading
Part of the trouble is the idea that trees are just wood, wood is carbon, and carbon is fungible. Most of the wood... | Continue reading
The shipping industry has worked hard to hide itself from view, and we have colluded with it. We don’t want to think... | Continue reading
Antiquarians lamented that modern Romans had turned the Colosseum into a quarry. But they knew that greedy builders and... | Continue reading
Bill and Melinda Gates have asked for privacy after their divorce announcement, but a storm of attention seems more... | Continue reading
The logic behind using nerve agents in the Skripal and Navalny cases was that the target could be poisoned through... | Continue reading
‘If it were announced that we faced a threat from space aliens and needed to build up to defend ourselves,’ Paul... | Continue reading
The well-oiled pistons of the market-state are increasingly accompanied by the creaks and squabbles of a Chinese dynasty... | Continue reading
In 1999, while taking a break from my PhD to try to get rich in the fine jewellery business, I nearly became the world... | Continue reading
There is something unsettling – especially in the midst of a pandemic that has forced so much of commerce and everyday... | Continue reading
Where are the space arks in orbit? The exploration of exoplanets in the circumstellar habitable zone? Satellite wars... | Continue reading
It is usual for urban centres to contain extreme contrasts and not unusual for them to be scenes of conflict. What is... | Continue reading