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Claustropolis: 1984
“Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…
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The world yearns for ‘active’ peace, tired of the attitude of superiority that defines the North’s relations with the South. This means that wealth, which is produced by society, must not deepen the pockets of the rich and fuel the engines of war, but fill the bellies of the many. 31 October 2024 Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu…
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Israel is only conducting occasional atrocities that do not align with US interests, if we are to believe US rhetoric. The Israeli air strike that killed at least 20 children in Beit Lahiya was “a horrifying incident with a horrifying result,” according to US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller. “We have reached out to the Government of…
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If Trump wins, an unstoppable force is about to meet an unmovable object. Yascha Mounk Oct 31, 2024 Help me bring this Substack to German and French (and perhaps Italian and Spanish and….?) audiences! I am looking for someone who can help oversee the translation of my weekly columns and conversations to other languages. You…
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Chinese scholar Wang Hui looks back at the twentieth century, which was born out of the multiple revolutions in the peripheral areas of the world, including China. 22 October 2024 Download PDF Foreword Wang Hui (born in 1959) is a professor of Chinese language and literature at Tsinghua University as well as the director of…
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October 19, 20247:56 AM ET Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday Scott SimonListen· 6:32 NPR’s Scott Simon asks Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha about his new collection, “Forest of Noise,” and about the conflict in Gaza. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We’re going to ask Mosab Abu Toha to read the beginning of his poem “Younger Than War.” MOSAB ABU…
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