A Scoreboard in Queens Echoes Louder in Lagos By the time you finish your flat white in Stockholm, the New York Mets have already coughed up a three-run lead to the Braves, and the final 7-5 line is scrolling across LED tickers in the Shibuya Crossing. Somewhere in Lagos, a data analyst on the graveyard…
PARIS—Somewhere between the Vatican’s Wi-Fi dead-zones and the algorithmic cathedrals of Twitter, Patricia Lockwood has become the patron saint of Extremely Online Existentialism, a title that comes with neither a mitre nor a blue checkmark but does guarantee you’ll be quoted by melancholic graduate students from Kyoto to Kansas. If you’ve managed to miss her,…
In a week when the Arctic Circle was busy melting faster than a popsicle in Riyadh and several sovereign nations quietly renegotiated their debt with the structural elegance of a pyramid scheme, the planet still found collective bandwidth to watch 22 millionaires chase a sphere across manicured grass. Arsenal versus Nottingham Forest, a fixture that…
