Set in the American Midwest in 1985, much of Noah Baumbach’s White Noise is dominated by an “Airborne Toxic Event” unleashed from a Spielbergian head-on collision between a freight train and...
This week, the journalist Lauren Wolfe published an article in Foreign Policy about how Russian leadership is afraid of “psychic attacks” from the West. Lauren spoke to me for the article and it...
Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh – a mountainous region internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, although it has effectively been under Armenian control for three decades – seem to...
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains - and souls - need but that it's easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and...
Welcome to the next in the Podcast Showcase series, where we share podcasts with you in the words of the podcasters themselves. This time, we talk to The Art of Social Media. Sum up your podcast in...
In 2022, many artists have released great songs and some of them have made history with record views and sales. For you, many of these lyrics have become part of your life — anchored to the...
2022 has been an epic year for television fiction. Month after month, we have enjoyed ingenious, ruthless, surreal, and unpredictable projects. Titles such as House of the Dragon, The Staircase,...
The Ukraine war will almost certainly last throughout 2023. The very nature of the conflict suggests that it will end only when Russia completely withdraws its troops from the Eastern European...
Welcome to the next in the Podcast Showcase series, where we share podcasts with you in the words of the podcasters themselves. This time, we talk to the History of Africa podcast Sum up your podcast...
Towns can be like people, some more Christmas-loving and others more grinchy. And if you are like the former, you've probably dreamed of experiencing a fairytale Christmas, where the streets have...
