My copy is the Penguin film tie-in, secondhand, cover soft at the corners, Ben Kingsley’s face floating over a block of hot orange. Usually a tie-in edition is a warning sign. It means the book is…
Ask for “a recent samurai movie like 13 Assassins” and you’ll get a pile of recommendations that share a costume and nothing else. Everyone points you at the streaming series. Most of them miss. The…
“The book was better” is the laziest line in criticism. Nine times out of ten it means the reader got there first and resents the recasting. The face in your head was wrong, so the film is wrong…
The trade press has already reduced tiny tourism to a number of nights. Average trip length is falling, one-night hotel stays are up, and the easy conclusion is that people are just taking shorter…
The S&P 500 opened Tuesday around 7,703 against a record close of 7,798.99 set on August 13. That is a drawdown of roughly 1.2%, three sessions old, in a week where the Russell 2000 printed a fresh…
The question of what to do about an internet filling with machine-generated filler finally got a price tag in July, and the number that matters is not the volume share. The Trustworthy Accountability…
Most people looking at Rockefeller Center see a landmark. The more useful way to read it is as collateral. Since 1985 the complex has been financed, defaulted on, seized, resold and refinanced through…
The tower in the middle of the frame is 30 Rockefeller Plaza. One block east, at 630 Fifth Avenue, the International Building housed a foreign intelligence service that spent five years running…
The five largest cloud providers are on track to spend roughly $600 billion on infrastructure this year, and the broader hyperscaler group closer to $710 billion. Every dollar of that lands somewhere…
The Content Marketing Institute’s 2026 B2B report surveyed just over a thousand marketers and asked where the money is going. Sixty-one percent plan to raise overall spend. The top three priorities…