How did the clothes you're wearing get to you?
Guardian writers trace the human cost of the Bangladeshi garments industry in video, pictures and words. (SL Guardian interactive documentary)
View ArticleBollywood Hamlet
Vishal Bhardwaj's latest Shakespearian adaptation turns the Prince of Denmark into a philosophy student from Kashmir, the former Himalayan princedom, who returns home from university after hearing...
View ArticleUnique taste — and the capacity to avoid the basic — is a privilege.
'She (and it is always a she) cherishes uninspired brands — a mix of Target products, Ugg boots over leggings, and Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Lattes (the ultimate signifier of basicness) — and lives a...
View ArticleBeautiful Forest
Bangladesh is struggling to clean up an oil spill that threatens environmental damage in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest and home to rare Bengal tigers and river dolphins.
View ArticleNo, really, how DO you avoid huge ships?
The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year (previously on Metafilter) has revealed its 2015 shortlist.
View ArticleThe Legend of Korra Saved My Sanity
"... one of the most startling things about this show is that fact that women in Legend of Korra are not required to be likeable."
View ArticleArchie Andrews' 75th birthday
As Archie Andrews turns 75, Archie Comics releases a "new look" flagship series, Archie #1. Archie #1 will be released in 2015 from writer Mark Waid, known for his work for DC and Marvel comics, and...
View ArticleSadiq Khan Takes on Brexit and Terror
The New Yorker profiles London's Mayor. (SLNewYorker)
View Article“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”
"She was the White Goddess evoked by Robert Graves, the slender being with the hook nose and startling blue eyes; the being he describes as a shape-shifter, a virgin but also a vixen, a hag, mermaid,...
View Article"When we look at a girl story, most of us go a tiny bit stupid."
"Let’s call it the “male glance,” the narrative corollary to the male gaze. We all have it, and it’s ruining our ability to see good art." Lili Loofbourow in the Virginia Quarterly Review.
View ArticleThanks I Hate It
Film critic and Metafilter fave Lindsay Ellis (previously on Metafilter) on That Time Disney Remade Beauty and the Beast.
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