Archive - multi-storied

multi-storied #43: The web beneath the waves

It’s just as well for you all that books take years to write.

May 11 •

Samanth Subramanian

March 2025

multi-storied #42: The journalist and the scam artist

The very first sentence of “The Journalist and the Murderer” is full-bore artillery, blowing apart the egos of the practitioners of the very profession…

Mar 29 •

Samanth Subramanian

January 2025

multi-storied #41: What are the odds?

This piece appeared last October in a Bloomberg Businessweek special package on sports gambling—an industry that is rapidly being legalized in US state…

Jan 15 •

Samanth Subramanian

December 2024

multi-storied #40: Ten (+1) things from 2024

A year in writing

Dec 23, 2024 •

Samanth Subramanian

November 2024

multi-storied #39: Hold your tongue

To introduce this new story in the New Yorker, a little mea culpa:

Nov 22, 2024 •

Samanth Subramanian

October 2024

multi-storied #38: Cinema, cinema

Let me say, up front, that I’ve always been underwhelmed by journalism’s intersection with the cinematic-industrial complex.

Oct 31, 2024 •

Samanth Subramanian

multi-storied #37: Corporate crimes

Bless the Americans and their complete, almost gleeful devotion to litigation.

Oct 4, 2024 •

Samanth Subramanian

August 2024

multi-storied #36: The idyll

I’ve been spending many, many days in the company of a man who told me an astonishing story about how he fell in love with books.

Aug 15, 2024 •

Samanth Subramanian

July 2024

multi-storied #35: Truth in a year of lies

Not even a whole day had passed after Joe Biden endorsed Kamala Harris for president before the lies began.

Jul 22, 2024 •

Samanth Subramanian

June 2024

multi-storied #34: Who wrote this?

This week, I guest-posted over at EELS, a weekly engine of book recommendations run by my funny and amazingly well-read friend Susan Howson.

Jun 16, 2024 •

Samanth Subramanian

May 2024

multi-storied #33: On (cricketing) beauty

A good long while ago, I was a guest on a very fine cricket podcast called 81 All Out, and in the fullness of the conversation, I articulated something…

May 21, 2024 •

Samanth Subramanian

April 2024

multi-storied #32: The details of an election

Words are funny things.

Apr 26, 2024 •

Samanth Subramanian

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