ALL of 7 results for "Culture & Society"
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In at the deep end
14 July 1985 • 1,414 words • Reportage & Criticism
Leo, a high diver at the Royal American Shows, a travelling fair where I worked one summer in Canada, told me, as we poured paraffin… more»
Futebol: The Brazilian Variations
1 February 2002 • 1,113 words • Reportage & Criticism
In the arts of performance—in music and dance, in ecstatic religion, in soap opera, plastic surgery, cross-dressing and, perhaps above all, in football—Brazilian style tends,… more»
Saving Angkor
16 January 1996 • 1,113 words • City of Words
It’s back in 1993 and I’m seeing Angkor for the first time—gazing down from the porthole of a Russian military helicopter at the huge, geometrically ordered… more»
Car wars
1 March 1999 • 1,239 words • City of Words
The last thing I saw before I rolled my bike and fell in the path of an oncoming truck was the statue of the gunner… more»
The cricket test
7 July 1995 • 1,159 words • City of Words
Cricket, for all its tedium, has, along with the English language, a distinctly positive political function: it brings the countries of the British Commonwealth together.… more»
A first blast of the hooter against the monstrous regiment of cyclists
21 July 1997 • 1,147 words • City of Words
For too long—for far too long—a vociferous minority group has held sway over… more»
