Sublime

At age fifty he viewed himself, after publication of two books of nonfiction, one on the war, the other a personal account of the Irish troubles, plus the short story collection and innumerable articles for national magazines, as a conundrum, a man unable to define his commitment or understand the secret of his own navel, a literary gnome. He serio

the most striking feature of that system is how little it has changed in the space of a decade, despite the ‘great dying’ of so many banks, hedge funds and other entities, and the promulgation of thousands of pages of new financial regulation on both sides of the Atlantic. Banks are certainly better capitalized than they were ten years ago. In othe

We are, for the first time in modern history, facing the prospect of how societies would exist without reliable news – at least as it used to be understood.

That something, according to former Associated Press reporter Matti Friedman, is the grossly disproportionate number of journalists assigned to covering Israel—more, Friedman writes, than “AP had in China, Russia, or India, or in all of the 50 countries of sub-Saharan Africa combined.”

Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew