No other runner could be seen in the distance when Kelvin Kiptum tore through the finish line tape in Chicago. Not only did the 23-year-old Kenyan win on Sunday, but he set a new world record.
Kiptum crossed the finish line at the Chicago Marathon with an unofficial time of 2 hours and 35 seconds. If confirmed, Kiptum will have beaten two-time Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge's record, set at the 2022 Berlin Marathon, by 34 seconds. Read More...
Fiction in translationReviewIn this entertaining eco-thriller, the heroine curates holiday packages in disaster zones
Following a spate of recent fiction considering the strange intersection of our work and leisure lives – novels such as Ling Ma’s apocalyptic satire Severance and Sayaka Murata’s oddly affecting Convenience Store Woman – The Disaster Tourist offers up another fresh and sharp story about life under late capitalism.
Yona Kim is a programme manager for Jungle, a Seoul company that specialises in curating holiday packages in disaster zones. Read More...
With a mysterious box of human remains, an eclectic troupe of morally questionable characters and an idyllic hotel so expensive you’ll want to cry, “The White Lotus” proposes a variety of interesting questions but doesn’t spoon-feed the answers. Read More...