Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing CapitalismEven before the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the environmental crisis. Taking her inspiration from the 'moonshot' programmes which successfully co ordinated public and private sectors on a massive scale, Mariana Mazzucato calls for the same level of boldness and experimentation to be applied to the biggest

Reconstructing how weekly patterns insinuated themselves into the social practices and mental habits of Americans

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000 years ago attest to a long history of human creativity

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a man's infatuation with a veiled woman takes a supernatural turn

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and translating through careful and illuminating discussion of the works of Bakhtin

and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground

Omer Pasha Latas combines the leisurely melancholy of Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March with the stark fatalism of an old ballad

enormously erudite

the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories can no longer be considered a temporary aberration

From ribald stories of drunken monks to aching nostalgia for the fading traditions of the Japanese court