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The German climatologist had a theory. “Everyone comes to Ascension Island for strategic reasons,” he said. “The American air force is here because of the island’s location between South America and Africa. The RAF is here because it allows them
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
If I had been in Madrid last week, I would have doubtless lined up, with tens of thousands of madrileños, to pay my respects to Adolfo Suárez, the first elected prime minister of post-Francoist Spain, who died on March 23
It is Saturday night in Madrid and Plaza Mayor is thronged with people despite the chill breeze of midwinter. We weave through the bodies in their winter coats past the statue of Philip III in his brocaded one and duck
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