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Depending on who you ask, the “Dark Web”—the Internet’s mysterious undercurrent accessible only through specialized software—is either a libertarian utopia or a criminal hellscape run by cryptoanarchi

Left, Ghislaine de Védrines’s ex-husband, journalist Jean Marchand, at Château Martel, in Monflanquin, France, in 2003; right, anti-sect lawyer Daniel Picotin, in his Bordeaux office Photographs: left

An event in Los Angeles, where the Shine was started by Light Watkins. Credit... Rich Fury On a recent rainy afternoon over veggie burgers at NeueHouse, the co-working space in the Flatiron district,

Saints in the city? David Bowie and Lou Reed in New York in 1996 for the premiere of the film Basquiat, in which Bowie played Andy Warhol.Photograph: NY Daily News via Getty Images A n hour after the

Google They say the best relationships are the ones in which you can finish each others sentences. Enter Google Maps' newest Android feature: Driving Mode. Google Maps already has features that allows

The Focus E15 campaign protests against ‘social cleansing’ in Newham, east London.Photograph: Jess Hurd for The Guardian Although gentrification only became a mainstream topic of discussion relatively

William Shakespeare used a form of the singular they in his plays. Courtesy of the Library of Congress This post originally appeared on Sean Carroll’s blog, Preposterous Universe . The announcement we

Jean-Paul Sartre explained his refusal to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature in a statement made to the Swedish Press on October 22, which appeared in Le Monde in a French translation approved by S

Jean-Paul Sartre (centre) dining in Paris with filmmaker Claude Lanzmann (left) and Simone de Beauvoir in 1964. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis Jean-Paul Sartre’s letter informing the Swedish Academy that

Announcement Address by Anders Österling, Member of the Swedish Academy This year the Nobel Prize in Literature has been granted by the Swedish Academy to the French writer Jean-Paul Sartre for his wo

A unity rally in Paris following the terrorist attacks last year in January.Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images In Place de la République, the Paris square that embodies France and calls to h

@thinkpiecebot: Sometimes silly, sometimes serious, always satirical. Screencapture from twitter.com The term think piece isn’t new, but you might be forgiven for thinking it is. Few concepts seem mor

One of the things I was taught as an elementary school student in Illinois was that America differed from Europe in that it was founded as, and has remained, a classless society. These days, if politi

MY FAVORITE VULGAR WORD by far is “shit.” I was about six years old when I learned the word, and ever since I’ve felt the greatest fondness for it. It seems to me one of the truly irreplaceable words

It’s important to be very rich but have almost no items in your home. This will confuse vengeful spirits that come looking to destroy your possessions. Also, if you have too many items in your home, h

Reading novels is good for you. This is the current wisdom, at least. A 2013 study by the New School for Social Research in New York City attempted to prove that reading passages by Don DeLillo and Ly

In the era of the Kindle, a book costs the same price as a sandwich. Dennis Johnson, an independent publisher, says that “Amazon has successfully fostered the idea that a book is a thing of minimal va

'The omni­present and deadly threat to the novel has been imminent now for a long time' … Will Self. Photograph: Karen Robinson for the Guardian I f you happen to be a writer, one of the great benison

Will Self's lament for the death of the novel earlier this summer has been cast into stark relief by "shocking" new statistics which show that the number of authors able to make a living from their wr

Peter Macdiarmid / Reuters Which is the largest nation in Europe to lack a state of its own? The Catalans? The Walloons? Wrong and wrong. It is the English: population 50 million-plus, all of them under the government of a multinational entity, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern…

Touring the Biennale, a fictional critic muses on the contradictions between the show’s socially conscious theme and its wealth-and-fame realities. 1. It is the spring of dead bodies, failed refugees,

Kara Gordon/The Atlantic At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration . Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing

U.S. Navy / Reuters From China in Asia to Russia in Europe and the Middle East, and ISIS just about everywhere, 2015 has seen the flourishing of conflicts that exist in a gray zone, one which is not quite open war but more than regular competition, which is attuned to globalization, which liberal…

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The arms trade, and the UK's role within it, relies on business-speak and foggy language, writes Will Self. One of my favourite cartoons was published by the New Yorker magazine way back in the early

Joel Ryan / AP There’s plenty of disagreement over how to define emotions , but at least one thing is certain: They are intensely personal things. A flood of anger, a flash of annoyance—that feeling i

Last year a BBC documentary about the war in Bosnia showed the town of Travnik besieged by Bosnian Serbs. Conditions in the town were dismal; hunger and fortitude were the order of the day. The progra

I had ​ a piano teacher who used to talk about the most familiar musical cadence – in which a piece returns, after wandering and variation, to its original key, the tonic – as ‘going home’. It seemed

World Literature certainly sounds like a nice idea. A literature truly global in scope ought to enlarge readers’ sympathies and explode local prejudices, releasing us from the clammy cells of provinci

Last year, when literary fiction seemed to fall either into the category of formal experiment (Ali Smith’s How to Be Both; Will Self’s Shark) or into an essentially 19th-century tradition (Neel Mukher

By Momina Masood. Annual literary festival in Pakistan–where American YA fiction is sold, and discussions are held in English. “Yes, but what does it mean,” sighs the Reader flipping through the pages

Part-way through completing a translation of Gregor Hens’ Nicotine , our resident translation columnist Jen Calleja finds herself asking questions about authenticity and exactitude and whether or not

T he unwillingness of English-speaking readers to engage with fiction in translation has come in for its fair share of criticism over the years, not least from the director of the Edinburgh book festi

The concentration of power in the American presidency is an alarming trend, whether you’re more freaked out by the administration of George W. Bush or that of Barack Obama . In January 2009, Garret Ep

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I sat drinking black tea in the foyer of the hotel. (This was in Munich.) A lady wearing a lustrous purple trouser suit was seated at the keys of the baby grand in the far corner, her rendition of “Hu

O n 3 March ​ 2014, the first day in the trial of Oscar Pistorius for the killing of Reeva Steenkamp, Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa made her way across courtroom GD at North Gauteng High Court in Pre