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In 2009, Australian journalist Lauren Williams (@Laurenwillgo) resigned from her position at The Daily Telegraph and struck out for the Middle East. Her plans were vague: a bit of backpacking, a bit of freelancing, a bit of well-earned adventure. “I
At the beginning of 2013, Brigid Delaney (@BrigidWD) attended a silent retreat. Bending the definition of “silent” somewhat, she tweeted the whole thing. Delaney told Crikey this wasn’t cheating. “I was literally silent,” she said. That the retreat managed to keep Delaney’s mouth shut
When The Sopranos ended its six-season run in June 2007, the controversial final sequence—no spoilers here, dear reader—became the stuff of water cooler conversations everywhere. By the time Breaking Bad came to its own conclusion last September, the very nature
Adelle Waldman’s (@adellewaldman) The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. was one of the best new books I read last year. It could easily have been otherwise. The story of a young male novelist who is selfish and occasionally cruel but not at
It is difficult to sum up anyone in a sentence. With Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman), you’d be struggling with five. In the past week, he’s tweeted about bitcoin derivatives, the history of the corporation in the 20th century, the colony of
On February 28, when reports started coming in that unidentified armed men in combat gear were patrolling outside Crimea’s airport and had occupied the region’s parliament building, Forbes contributor Mark Adomanis (@MarkAdomanis) took to his blog, ‘The Russia Hand’, to
The footage out of Istanbul this week was depressingly familiar. The water cannons. The riot police. The Occupy Gezi protesters who last year captured the world’s attention—Turkish flags waving above Taksim Square and all that—once again feeling the brunt of
It has already been an eventful year for a Western media dazzled by the Sturm und Drang of protest and revolution. In the first few months of 2014, it has occasionally paid to have monocular vision: protest-watchers have needed one