Culture
Sad New World
Only A Bit of Hell
In the Rhino Colony
Only the Lonely
China Hoops
Who Really Rules?
Promotions
IT CERTAINLY SAYS something about our civilization—and probably nothing good—that many of us have a favorite commercial, whether it is “Where’s the beef?” or “Think different.” It says something else that one of our most beloved television shows is about the moment in history when advertising became a cultural force of its own. I don’t think these phenomena are unrelated. READ MORE >>
The Very Deadliest Habit
The Reverse Commute
AKASH KAPUR IS part of a group of Indians and half-Indians who have returned to India in the past ten years and written about their experiences. For most of us, our parents’ stories overshadow our own: they left, we return. Kapur is something rarer: he has the perspective of being born in India, leaving for school abroad, and then returning. He has a fluency that outsiders—even those of us who claim some genetic tie—lack. His parents are not even mentioned in the book. This is his story. READ MORE >>
