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Smoke and Ashes by Amitav Ghosh review: How the word hipster was coined — and the world hooked on...
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoIn Hackney, the London borough where I live, “hipster” is an essential bit of anthropological...
China, opium and racial capitalism: Amitav Ghosh on the roots of a deadly business
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoIn 'Smoke and Ashes,' Amitav Ghosh draws comparisons between America's modern opioid crisis and the West's flooding of China with opium in the 18th century.
Will India's Booker Prize-winning author face jail for 14-year-old remark?
BBC via Yahoo Canada News· 3 weeks agoMs Roy is an outspoken writer and activist [AFP] Will one of India's most celebrated writers really...
Mumbai should ‘drastically cut back’ on billboards, Indian author says after storm disaster
Euronews via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoAt least 14 people were killed and dozens more injured when a giant billboard collapsed during an...
The British Monarchy Helped Mortgage Our Collective Future
Time via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoThe crown to be worn by Queen Elizabeth II arrives at the Soverign Entrance of the House of Lords,...
Reactions to the attack on writer Salman Rushdie
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years ago(Reuters) -Here are reactions to Friday's attack on novelist Salman Rushdie. Just hours before the attack, on Friday morning, Salman had emailed me to...
'Extrapolations' Is 'Black Mirror' For the Climate Crisis
Esquire via Yahoo News· 1 year agoScott Z. Burns Spells Future in 'Extrapolations'Apple “Selling hope is something that the oil...
Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023: the novelists and their books in the running
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoFrom stories about the US opioid crisis, to novels set in 16th century Italy, this year’s Women’s...
Want to read more books about climate change? Here's a list to get started
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 11 months agoWant to read more about climate change but not sure where to start? As an environmental writer and...
His Dark Materials: how the small-screen adaptation deals with the novel’s big ideas
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoIn its concluding season, the BBC adaptation of His Dark Materials approaches a moment of danger. A story that began with the intimate world building of parallel Oxfords must now take on the ...