How Folktales Unsettle Us Into Thinking Anew
by Abigail Tulenko in Aeon Magazine: The Hungarian folktale Pretty Maid Ibronka terrified and tantalised…
The Death of our Era by D.H. Lawrence
Our era is dyingyet who has killed it?Have we, who are it? In the middle…
The Challenge of Interviewing Kamala Harris
Jess Bidgood in the NY Times Newsletter: Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate,…
Is there a ‘Seventh Generation’ of Chinese film-makers?
Leo Robson in Sidecar: It has not materialised in any formal sense, and the term…
The World’s Stockyard
Fernando Rugitsky in Phenomenal World: on Agribusiness and the green transition in Brazil
Democratic Disenchantment
Samuel Bagg in Boston Review: Can better decision-making procedures ever achieve real democracy?
Monday Poem: Bahadur Shah Zafar
On Seeing Bahadur Shah ZafarThe Last Mughal Emperor1775 – 1862 The king is a subject—A…
This AI Learns Continuously From New Experiences—Without Forgetting Its Past
Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: Our brains are constantly learning. That new sandwich deli rocks….
‘Daal Bhat Tarkari Achar’ in Nepal
Habib Khan, Quetta: Nepal was visa-free for Pakistanis (at least) in 2009, and Kathmandu had…
Sunday Poem: Airborne Hope
by Vivian Huang (age 15): a contrapuntal poem dedicated to my family. —from 2024 Rattle Young…