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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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  • 70% of 36 popular protein supplements sold in India mislabeled, 14% contain toxins, says new study

    First-of-its-kind study examined 36 brands of protein powders, including those containing herbal and dietary supplements. Results published in Medicine last week. SUMI SUKANYA DUTTA 11 April, 2024 06:30 am IST https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://theprint.in/health/70-of-36-popular-protein-supplements-sold-in-india-mislabeled-14-contain-toxins-says-new-study/2035264/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21 Follow Us : Text Size: A-A+ New Delhi: A first-of-its-kind observational analysis of the most popular protein powders sold and consumed in India has shown that the…

  • A Tale of Corruption by the United Auto Workers and the Big Three American Automakers

    By Thomas Adams (Posted Aug 19, 2019) Democracy, History, LaborUnited StatesCommentary, Monthly Review Essays, NewsFeatured What follows is a somewhat complex tale of what happens when a labor union, structured to be unaccountable to the rank-and-file membership, embraces a system of labor-management cooperation rather than a class-conscious understanding that workers and their employers are adversaries with fundamentally opposed…

  • The Character of Tragedy

    The Character of Tragedy Plot is the key to character. MARTHA BAYLES Martha Bayles teaches humanities at Boston College and is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. She is the author of Through a Screen Darkly: Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America’s Image Abroad and Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning…

  • THE WORK OF ART APR. 4, 2024

    How’d You Make That? Three masterpieces from glimmer through struggle to breakthrough. By Adam Moss, who edited New York and The New York Times Magazine,  James Joyce’s crayon edits of Ulysses. Photo: Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. For 40 years, I…

  • Profit and loss

    This article is more than 21 years old William Dalrymple They came in their tens of thousands in the early 90s, selling up in the west to start afresh in the ‘new Palestine’. Now daily violence and curfews are bringing them to the edge of ruin. In the second of a series of major articles…

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