The insider
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?
The war on Japanese knotweed
“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.”
Dismantling Sellafield
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.
The lost Jews of Nigeria
Until the 1990s, there were almost no Jews in Nigeria. Now thousands of Igbo are taking up the faith, building synagogues in southern Nigeria.
The Madhouse of the Mask Market
Countries have hoarded masks, and used them as chips in geopolitical games. Thieves have made off with them. One mask broker described it “the craziest market I’ve ever seen.” The global scramble for this vital item has exposed the harsh realities of international politics and the limits of the free market.
