Austerity Blues
October 25, 2019
After sixty years of IMF intervention, Pakistan has little to show for it
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So Metaphorical
October 24, 2019
Parasite, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes (in a reportedly unanimous decision) and was (less unanimously) a finalist for the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, begins in a dead-end.
The film opens in a dingy sub-basement at the ass-end of a ...
The Times Takes to TV
October 24, 2019
The Times pursues "all the views that flit from print."
A Cosmopolitan Institution
October 23, 2019
John Sexton and the new university
Dust to Dust
October 23, 2019
The oddly soothing apocalypses of László Krasznahorkai
All the Diplomat’s Women
Richard Holbrooke's affairs, foreign and domestic.
Bombs Away
October 21, 2019
How ads for drones and military payload delivery systems invaded our timelines
Fresh Hell
October 18, 2019
The Discreet Charm of the Non-Working Billionaire
Stick it to Sports
October 17, 2019
How soccer supporters’ groups fought the league and won.
Meat in the Machine
October 16, 2019
Pain is the ultimate antidote to mind-body dualism.
Crashing the Body Party
Raised in the 1990s, I have a soft spot for the exercise tape aesthetic: upbeat motivational speech, house music, and B-movie production values all mashed together.
Fresh Hell
October 11, 2019
Tax Murderers