Archive - multi-storied

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 •

Samanth Subramanian

multi-storied #37: Corporate crimes

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

Oct 4 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

Samanth Subramanian

April 2024

multi-storied #32: The details of an election

Words are funny things.

Apr 26 •

Samanth Subramanian

February 2024

multi-storied #31: A duet

Last week, after a gap of many years, I found myself in Varanasi again.

Feb 20 •

Samanth Subramanian

December 2023

multi-storied #30: The weight of a story

In the most recent issue of the New York Review of Books, I wrote about a new oral history of the civil war in Yemen.

Dec 17, 2023 •

Samanth Subramanian

October 2023

multi-storied #29: War by other means

(A word about the image above: The phone belongs to Andrey Liscovich, about whom more below.

Oct 28, 2023 •

Samanth Subramanian

multi-storied #28: Michael Lewis and Sam Bankman-Fried

A little while ago, I went to California to spend some time with Michael Lewis, who wrote “The Big Short” and “Moneyball” and “The Blind Side” and a…

Oct 3, 2023 •

Samanth Subramanian

August 2023

multi-storied #27: The cross-training writer

Regulars at any gym will be familiar with the advice to not skip leg day.

Aug 21, 2023 •

Samanth Subramanian

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