TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY TWO

Watch: The Above. Something about this reminds me of Don DeLillo. In Kabul, the bustle of the city – shopping, work, conversation and play – takes place beneath a mysterious US military balloon that has hovered in the sky since 2009. Ominous yet somehow part of the landscape given its omnipresence, the balloon’s precise purpose andContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY TWO”

TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY EIGHT

Laurie Penny, from What to do when you’re not the hero any more. “The rage that white men have been expressing, loudly, violently, over the very idea that they might find themselves identifying with characters who are not white men, the very idea that heroism might not be particular to one race or one gender, theContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY EIGHT”