Fortnite, the Technicolor Fever Dream the World Can’t Shake By Matteo “Grim” Bellini, roving correspondent in exile from three continents It began, as all modern catastrophes do, with a comet. One moment the planet was busy stockpiling micro-plastics and passive-aggressive tweets; the next, 250 million earthlings had been press-ganged into a lurid cartoon war zone…
They say the sun never sets on the British Empire; these days it merely glints off a thousand smartphone screens across four continents as grown men in Jakarta traffic jams, Lagos cybercafés, and Munich beer halls all hit refresh on ProFootballTalk. A modest blog started in 2001 by a former lawyer with a dial-up modem…
Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Anime – How a Kyoto Basement Became a Global Geopolitical Flashpoint By the time you finish this sentence, another government will have issued a travel advisory about Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle. Not because the movie is dangerous—although the decapitation count is brisk enough to make the Hague reach for a notepad—but…
Tom Holland Is Still Clinging to the Multiverse, and the Rest of Us Are Just Trying to Hang On By the time you finish this sentence, Tom Holland will have signed another three-picture deal, watched his latest blockbuster top the box office in seventeen languages, and politely apologized to a Brussels reporter for spoiling something…
The NFL’s Thirty-Two Flags: How a Provincial Pastime Conquered the Planet and Forgot to Apologize By Correspondent M. A. “Mac” Guffin, filing from a hotel bar in Singapore that still thinks the Super Bowl is a plumbing fixture. When the Kansas City Chiefs lifted their third Lombardi Trophy in February, fireworks crackled over Manila, Lagos,…
