Foreign Correspondence
A fortnightly newsletter of my latest writing, plus links to some of the best stories I’ve read.
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Foreign Correspondence, Vol 141 (opens the original)
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Hello, and happy Saturday. This week, I’ve found myself transfixed by two culture stories at once: The first is the news surrounding Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour, which saw all of its support acts quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore after he was booted from the show in apparent retaliation for a speech in which he said, among other things, “Free Palestine.” The blowback has been immense. Sheeran — who released a statement that makes one wonder how his PR de
Foreign Correspondence, Vol 140 (opens the original)
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Hello, and happy Friday! It has been a long, sweltering summer — one that, luckily for me, spanned beaches as far flung as SoCal, the Côte d'Azur, the southeast of England, the Costa Brava, and one pretty sizable Austrian lake.But summer is nearly over, and so too is this inadvertent pause to our correspondence, which I’m hoping to return to with a bit more regularity. Consider this your invitation to hold me accountable!What I’ve been working on <a class="image-link image
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