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The Room for Best

Geoff Dyer’s Homework shows childhood not as innocence, but as class training—plastic toys, unwritten rules, and a welfare state already fraying at the edges.

Pencil drawing inside prison

No More Cells

They say prisons are overcrowded, as if the cages are too small. As if the problem is spatial. As if all we need is a few more acres of razor wire and reinforced concrete and the crisis will vanish. But prisons aren’t full because we lack space. They’re full because we lack imagination.

Italian Politicians’ Problematic WhatsApp Messages During Pandemic

Italian politicians and health officials joked about Italy’s role in the spread of the coronavirus and attempted to protect the country’s image during the pandemic in WhatsApp messages, leading to an investigation and suspicions of “aggravated culpable epidemic” and manslaughter.