By Katerina Karp “What is the most effective punishment for a crime?” It is a question that has echoed through millennia, from the Athenian agora…
By Sara Bright The Winter Olympics have kicked off. Again. I was in Milan on Friday, watching the whole thing unfold at the San Siro,…
By Sara Bright Venice is doing it again. It’s February. The city is damp, cold, and impossibly crowded. And yet, for the next two weeks,…
Kathryn Bigelow does not think of herself as a filmmaker who happens to be a woman. She has always resisted that formulation, and she has…
By Sara Bright It’s 110 years today since Edith Piaf was born. That number feels wrong, doesn’t it? It feels too neat. Piaf was never…
On a Tuesday morning in November 2024, I sat in the café of Manchester Art Gallery as a stranger across the table told us she…
By Maria Bregman I was sitting in a café in Soho when the notification pinged. You know the kind. It’s usually something mundane – a…
By Maria Bregman I was reading about Michael Dell this morning. You know, the computer guy. The man whose beige boxes sat on every office…
The 74th Miss Universe pageant, held in Nonthaburi, Thailand, in November 2025, was supposed to be a triumph of global glamour. Instead, it played out…
