The logistics of getting into Sellafield, a nuclear facility in northwestern England, are both bureaucratic and sartorial. I applied for a media visit permit some time in the summer of 2021, and then I had to undergo a background check, presumably to ensure that I was no…
For a good few years, beginning around 2010, I was stricken with a love for reading about architecture, and about Indian urban architecture in…
A couple of months ago, the New Yorker published a piece I’d worked on nearly all year: on the Hindu right’s gradual <noun> of Bollywood. That <noun…
An outtake from "A Dominant Character"
Outtakes from Indonesia
+ Some Pulitzer news
Sometimes Always, these days, I accept book-review assignments for selfish reasons. I want to write reviews that are really essays, of the kind…
At a recent exhibition, Sohei Nishino’s “Diorama Map Tokyo, 2004” occupied half a wall, and it transfixed me. These maps are Nishino’s specialty. From…
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