Pop X highbrow: The best classical crossovers

Saturday January 11 2025

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Pop X highbrow: The best classical crossovers

Skip the screen for the stage with these ten plays—featuring tales of totalitarianism and tenderness.

Analina Sanyal introduces us to handia—a desi rice liquor a bit like soju or sake.

We pick the best new book releases for your reading pleasure.

Here’s the splainer team’s recommended list of new releases to binge-watch.

The splainer team, past and present, picked the Big Stories we most loved and are proud of.

The declining number of foreign tourists has caused panic. The boa constrictor in the room? Smog.

We cut through mythmaking around the man who presided over the not-so ‘golden age of Tamils’.

We can’t afford to give up Russian oil or weapons without enduring some serious self-harm.