Cycling in London feels a bit like breaking the rules: you’re allowed to weave in and out of traffic, you don’t have to wear a helmet (most people don’t), and it’s perfectly acceptable to engage a stranger in conversation, as long as they are also on a bike. Early last week, as crowds gathered outside […]
For the vast majority of people, checking Instagram involves a mix of aspirationalism and voyeurism; the app feeds on a collective fear that we are missing out on something, whether it’s a fabulous party, a pop-up sale, or the mere concept of vacation. But the same dynamic doesn’t quite apply to parents sharing pictures of […]
A nation that is premised on an idea—not on an alleged shared bloodline or eons of history on common acreage—is prone to periodically question exactly who and what it is. The matter that binds Americans, as much as any doctrine or document, is the pursuit of a definition of who Americans are. There are facile […]
Forks and spoons should be placed handle down in the cutlery holder. Knives go handle up if you like your roommate or spouse, or blade up if you secretly want to murder them. Cups, glasses, and mugs go on the outer edges of the top rack, face down. Place a dark-colored mug in the back […]
The magnificent “1619” podcast, part of the 1619 Project, from the New York Times, begins with the sound of surf and seagulls: the coast of Point Comfort, in Hampton, Virginia, where, four hundred years ago, in a ship called the White Lion, enslaved African people arrived for the first time in what became the United […]
No new band of the past few years has sneaked up on me as completely as Whitney, a young Chicago act that uses warm guitar tones and wistful falsetto to make songs that sound like summer: sometimes summer afternoons, bright and free and endless-feeling, but more often late summer nights, the kind where the air […]
Russia released its most famous prisoner on Saturday. Oleg Sentsov, a forty-three-year-old Crimean journalist and film director, returned to Ukraine after serving five years of a twenty-year sentence. He was one of thirty-five Ukrainian citizens released by Russia in exchange for Ukraine freeing an equal number of Russian citizens. Human-rights groups around the world, activists, […]
The club president has expressed his desire to land another forward while hinting that there is good news on the way Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has hinted that the club will be announcing a signing on Monday. The club finished a distant second to Juventus in Serie A this season, but registered 79 points in their […]
The Blues are set to keep hold of their bright young academy prospect after months of negotiations and uncertainty Callum Hudson-Odoi will sign a new five-year deal at Chelsea to end any doubts he is set to leave the club this summer following interest from the likes of Bayern Munich and Manchester United. Chelsea had […]
The defender says his run to the top hasn’t come by luck or magic, but pure hard work Andy Robertson says he is frustrated by the narrative that his career is a “football fairytale”, adding that he, like Liverpool this season, has fully earned all of the success that has come his way with hard […]