Author: Adeeba Shahid Talukder

Columns

The Music Room

Adeeba Shahid Talukder

May 10, 2021

On loosing and finding Hindustani classical music.

All Quiet on the Eastern Front

Sarah Aziza

May 06, 2021

Joe Biden follows Trump’s footsteps in Saudi Arabia.

Lush Life

Elias Rodriques

April 29, 2021

Thulani Davis's poetry conjures a lost era of jazz.

Abiy Ahmed’s Counterrevolution

Alex de Waal

April 26, 2021

The Tigray conflict is a struggle over over the idea of Ethiopia.

In Three Years We Can Quit Chicken Sexing

A. S. Hamrah

April 22, 2021

ANOTHER ROUND If you can accept Mads Mikkelsen as a depressed high school history teacher in the suburbs, maybe you will also believe that his beautiful doctor wife (Maria Bonnevie) would take him back after he makes drinking on the job the guiding principle of his life. Thomas ...

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

April 10, 2021

And They Told You Diamonds Were Forever Instead of exchanging wedding rings, one recently married San Fransisco couple sent non-fungible tokens to each other’s digital wallets mid-ceremony. The marriage was further sanctified by an Ethereum smart contract. Both man and wife ...

I’m Gonna Live Like a Human Being

Marlowe Granados

April 06, 2021

Don’t be a writer—be an expert of you.

Why Read the Classics?

Abdelfattah Kilito

April 05, 2021

A Moroccan Master reflects on the Arabic tradition.

London Calling

Daniel Trilling

March 31, 2021

A new book surveys London’s long history of immigration.

Castes of Mind

Suraj Yengde

March 24, 2021

On the intersection of race and caste.

The Presence of Absence

John Washington

March 17, 2021

Two films grapple with disappearances at the US-Mexico border.

Outside the Text

Andrew Marzoni

March 10, 2021

  A charming depressive with David Lynch hair and shirt collars unbuttoned to the nipple, Jackie “Jacques” Derrida was named after the child star of Charlie Chaplin’s film The Kid by middle-class Jewish parents in El Biar, a suburb of Algiers, in 1930. Thirty-seven ...