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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 antidote to the mental health crisis lies in re-building our societies, moving away from capitalism’s culture of hostility towards a culture of connection and community. 26 September 2024 Vincent van Gogh (Netherlands), The Starry Night, 1889. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1930, Clément Fraisse (1901–1980), a shepherd from…
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The death toll has risen to 12 from Israel’s terror attack in Lebanon on Tuesday which detonated explosive materials hidden in thousands of pagers. Another 20 people were then killed in another attack on Wednesday with a second wave of explosions, this time using walkie talkies and home solar energy systems. The total death toll now sits at 32. Two children and four…
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As I said would happen, Putin’s refusal to quickly win the conflict with Ukraine has widened the conflict into the beginnings of WW III. Putin himself now acknowledges this fact. In response to a journalist’s question about the consequences of what appears to be a US-UK decision to permit missile strikes from Ukraine deep into…
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By Maria Popova A year ago, I lost my darling friend Emily Levine (October 23, 1944–February 3, 2019). Figuring, in which she rightly occupies the first line of the acknowledgements, was just being released. The book would not have existed without her, nor would The Universe in Verse — several years earlier, Emily had swung open for me the doorway to…
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