The gap between what traders knew at 4:00 p.m. Friday and what happened at midnight is the whole story here. Through the session, the reporting out of Washington pointed one way. Negotiators were…
Photo essay A country gets twelve square metres of carpet and a printed palm tree. The traveller gets eleven minutes on a square with four hundred strangers. Both of those things are the same…
The assertion that pro-Palestinian street mobilisation in European cities is organised and financed by Qatar and Turkey is usually made without reference to what open sources can and cannot establish.…
I don’t like conspiracy arguments and I don’t make them. When someone tells me a crowd is fake, or that a movement has a single hand behind it, my instinct is that they’ve mistaken agreement for…
Everybody has found Comporta by now. The remarkable thing is that you can’t tell from the road. The drive explains most of it. You leave Lisbon, cross the Sado, and within an hour you’re moving…
Everything in this outfit is deliberately boring except two things, and that is the whole trick. Light-wash high-waisted skinny jeans, a slouchy olive tee tucked loosely at the front, and then red.…
Two figures share a photograph and refuse to share anything else. He stands on the left in a black suit, glasses, mid-sentence, addressing someone outside the frame. She stands on the right in a black…
This beach frame is a good argument for the 135mm focal length. The woman sitting on the sand holds the eye because she’s the only thing rendered with any real detail. Everything behind her turns into…
Two figures share a photograph and refuse to share anything else. He stands on the left in a black suit, glasses, mid-sentence, addressing someone outside the frame. She stands on the right in a black…
A dozen people in winter coats stand with their backs to the camera while a guide talks. Above and behind them, eleven or twelve paintings crowd a single wall in two and three loose tiers, tondos…