A Consciousness of Reality
A 1954 essay by W.H Auden examining Virginia Woolf’s career and legacy through her own diary.
A 1954 essay by W.H Auden examining Virginia Woolf’s career and legacy through her own diary.
This dissection of a biography of the prominent American diplomatic Richard Holbrooke deals with a complex figure (“an exceptional shit of a human being, even aside from the defects born of extreme ambition”) who served in the Balkans under Clinton and Afghanistan under Obama, and stood for a very particular vision of America’s place in the world.
Azeem Azhar examines the the trends in medical emergency management, scientific collaboration, genomic technologies and remote working that the coronavirus outbreak may influence.
On the eve of the Iowa Caucus, a look at Joe Biden’s candidacy, defined perhaps more by who he’s not, than by who he is.
A story marvelling at the hermit crab, possibly responsible for eating Amelia Earhart on an island in the West Pacific, a species of which the oldest “live to more than a hundred, and grow to be wider than three feet across: too large to fit in a bathtub, exactly the right size for a nightmare.”
A look at the ingenious, secretive, technical research undertaken in the 1960s on what now seem ludicrously underpowered machines, that formed some of the earliest steps in what would eventually become the field of facial recognition software.
The story of how the shipwreck of a galleon laden with treasure in 1690s Oregon continued to capture people’s attention centuries after it was lost.
A piece unpacking what VISA’s acquisition of a fintech startup can teach us about the power of networks, and the future of consumer payments.
The story of alleged grand corruption perpetrated by Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of the former President of Angola.