The first months of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House have been disorienting. Talk of making Canada the 51st U.S. state and acquiring Panama and Greenland by force ...
Sometime in 2014, the Indian writer V. Gangadhar was at the crowded Kuwait Airways counter at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, annoyed that his flight to Mumbai was ...
Meghan Markle has made the unlikely decision to promote a series of clothing brands associated with her arch-rival, Kate Middleton, on her new internet shopping page.Given that Meghan’s kids have ...
In his acceptance speech for the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, who died on April 13 at the age of 89, noted that he learned from French ...
There’s a new twist in the latest White Lotus cast drama that has pitted star Aimee Lou Wood against quite a few foes. Walton Goggins, who plays Wood’s lover in ...
In the coming weeks, Flash Points will have a new name: The Reading List. Expect continued curated guides to the best articles in the magazine. Each Sunday, I’ll take you ...
China loves chandeliers. Every banquet room in China has at least one, usually as huge and shiny as possible. Like the caryatids that decorate the front gates of upmarket housing ...
Before I hit play on Netflix’s six-episode series The Leopard, I let some of my film critic chums know I was doing so in a group chat. “Can’t wait for ...
Kanye West is at it again. The unhinged rapper seemed to be taking responsibility for his actions for a few minutes on Thursday—but it didn’t last long. West issued an ...
BERLIN—The energy of the three-day Fem Punk festival at KvU, eastern Berlin’s oldest punk club, was conspicuously upbeat, despite the circumstances. The beloved haunt of three generations of Berlin anarcho-outsiders ...