Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
‘Une invitation au voyage’ Last Monday I took the TGV from Paris to Cannes to attend the annual MIPIM property conference. This grand and familiar train journey was preceded by a café gourmand in Le Train Bleu, one of the city’s grandest venues. The brasserie above the Gare de Lyon is a mythical...
Literary critic Edmund Wilson posed just this question in a 1945 edition of New Yorker magazine. He was being disingenuous. He didn’t care one jot for Agatha Christie’s wildly...
O FRABJOUS DAY! CALLOOH, CALLAY! The debt limit deal takes an enormous load off my mind; weeks of worrying about what we’d do when the economy crashed, and we lose everything and...
I salute the Hollywood writers who went out on strike this past week but I can tell you that we essayists won’t be joining them. For one thing, the essay is deeply imbedded in...
Ahead of King Charles’s coronation on May 6 2023, there have been reports of a national shortage of bellringers. The UK counts 38,000 churches. The hope is that each...
When you bang up your knee so it swells up like an elephant’s and it brings tears to your eyes to take a step, the orthopaedic guy gives you a knee brace to wear requiring four...
Each year, billions of pounds and euros and dollars are spent by towns and cities trying to entice big businesses to establish headquarters or factories or warehouses within...
I went down to the Bowery one night last week to see Aoife O’Donovan sing to a ballroom packed with young people standing for two hours and whooping and yelling — I sat up in the...
When you look at the body camera video of Nashville cops, guns drawn, dashing into the school, throwing doors open, shouting, “Shots fired, shots fired, move!” and a line of cops...
I am an old Democrat who’s been traveling around doing shows in Republican towns in the Midwest and it’s making me a better person. I stand up on a theater stage and I hum a note...