Everyone Wants a Piece of Kafka
Benjamin Balint at the NYT: In his novella “The Prague Orgy,” Philip Roth has a…
Vichch Pulase (Which Place)
Habib Khan, Quetta: More than twenty years ago, I was returning from a short trip…
Sunday Poem: Early Morning in Your Room
It’s morning. The brown scoops of coffee, the wasp-likeCoffee grinder, the neighbors still asleep.The gray…
A Theoretical ‘Case Against Education’
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: There’s been renewed debate around Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against…
Fish Around the World are Shrinking
By Devika Rao in The Week: The world’s fish supply is getting smaller, physically. A…
What If Trump Is Right About America?
Jonathan V. Last at The Bulwark: It’s time to ask some hard questions about ourselves….
Nigeria: ‘Corrupt Leaders Have No Tribe But United By Common Greed’
By Greenbarge Reporters: Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukayode, has…
Saturday Poem: Another Night in the Ruins
1In the eveninghaze darkening on the hills,purple of the eternal,a last bird crosses over,‘flop flop,’…
The Year of Singing Politically: Eurovision Song Contest 2024, Sweden
By Philip V. Bohlman at OUP: Welcome to the show. Let everybody know I’m done…
Translating is Like X-raying a Book. You Get a Deep Tissue Read.
Hephzibah Anderson in The Guardian: Sam Taylor, 53, was living in rural France with four…
Why the OpenAI Team In Charge of Safeguarding Humanity Imploded
Sigal Samuel at Vox: For months, OpenAI has been losing employees who care deeply about…
“The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction”
Soni Wadhwa in the Asian Review of Books: Detective fiction in the West is often…