By the last decades of the 19th century, Jules Verne was less a writer than a brand – one carefully cultivated by his publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel – promising a specific mixture. ..
metazine
Here is an antidote to current traps and poisons. People who rescue rather than attack, who move in a physical, not a virtual, world, who don’t morally triage others. Who put themselves. ..
‘I have no journalistic ability, ’ Malachi Whitaker wrote in her memoir, And So Did I , ‘and could not tell a good story to save my life. ’ By this point she had. ..
Lesson 1: War doesn't just happen to other people “Europeans still think that war happens to someone else. This is an illusion. The storm is global, ”
Guilt and pleasure are often codependent addictions, but for early modern authors the two were inextricable. The pedant. ..
For years politicians had taken it for granted that they could profit from the grey economy of French politics. Sarkozy. ..
What would happen if these two very different societies were united, when their institutions and attitudes have evolved. ..
Nigeria is a complicated recipient of Western largesse: elites welcome it so long as domestic players, for whom it may. ..