Bamford, Raphinha net as Leeds see off Fulham at Craven Cottage
Just the four Premier League games this weekend due to it being FA Cup Quarter Final weekend, but the games were no less important, and it...
Twitter Might Let You Undo Your Tweets—but Only If You Pay Up
We’re probably never going to get the Edit Tweet button we’ve all been waiting for, but it looks like that Undo Tweet feature will be rolling...
10 Big Things That Happened in Music the Week of March 19, 2021
With tomorrow already marking the first day of spring, 2021 is off to an incredible start—and yes, music has been a big part of this year’s success. Each...
Why Did the Slave Trade Survive So Long?
In the fall of 1853 Salvador de Castro Jr., a leading Cuban slave trader, traveled to Manhattan to arrange an expedition to West Central Africa to...
‘The Roots of Our Madness’
In the early morning hours of December 6, 1962, having broken his ankle, afraid that he was on the verge of a more general breakdown, the...
We’ll Always Have Paris
I live in the center of Paris, a hundred yards from the Seine. Every day I walk along it, or cross one of the bridges that...
Living with Saint Death
There are writers for whom the dead refuse to stay buried, and it may be that some ghosts are especially insistent with authors from countries where,...
The Symbolic Animal
The appearance of a new English translation of Ernst Cassirer’s The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms marks the culmination of an unlikely intellectual revival. Cassirer’s three-volume magnum...
Infinite Quarantine
The phrase “surprise best seller”—often applied to more or less any book that achieves some commercial success despite not being by John Grisham, Nicholas Sparks, or...
