The words “she cries” show up sixty times in total in Bushra al-Maqtari’s What Have You Left Behind? The men in the book seem to weep less: “He cries” appears twenty times.
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The words “she cries” show up sixty times in total in Bushra al-Maqtari’s What Have You Left Behind? The men in the book seem to weep less: “He cries” appears twenty times.
In the war against Russia, some Ukrainians carry AK-47s. Andrey Liscovich carries a shopping list. He’s giving a demo of the future of war: the military-retail complex.
As author of The Big Short and Moneyball, Michael Lewis is perhaps the most celebrated journalist of his generation. Now he delivers an astonishing portrait of Sam Bankman-Fried, the fallen crypto billionaire. But did he get too close?
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“I caught the odd feeling that I had come to the future world from which human beings had departed. Vegetation would be renewed year after year. Hybridised itadori would be the main creature in this area.”
When I visited, the king had thrown open a restored version of an ancient route: once populated only by farmers ambling to their fields, royal messengers hurrying from court to court, and divine madmen scattering grain.
At Sellafield, a nuclear power plant, nothing is produced anymore. But making safe what is left behind is an almost unimaginably complex task that requires us to think not on a human timescale, but a planetary one.
In unfamiliar places, a familiar illness
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