Exactly the kind of precision I want from my weather forecasts

Saw an accidentally perfect double-bill last night: ‘Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean’ and ‘The End’. Both single-location movies; both about the lies we can so easily tell ourselves as individuals and communities; both sorely under-appreciated on release.

Was thrilled to contribute an article to the Blu-ray booklet of one of last year’s most beautiful films. Thoroughly worth seeing if you missed it on the big screen

Tomasi di Lampedusa, menswear guy avant la lettre

One of the most Indian things to have happened in recent years is a ‘personal emergency’ (a shortage of idlis) leading to a revolution in idli technology

Incredible detail about the Russian hack of Clinton’s 2016 election campaign
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Nominative determinism at its finest