Extreme heatwave, an ex advisor to the prime minister & other art shenanigans
A walk through one Paris evening, a 25-year-old painter and a room full of people deciding what counts as good.
By Anas Ben Mejdoub
The writers who let you watch them write
Werber’s cathedral of strings, Auster’s blue notebook, Tesson’s cabin on the Baikal. On the books that put the writing desk inside the frame, and on what it would take to sit down at one.
By Malak Yacoubi
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PowerPoint Slides and Other Small Absurdities
A meditation on kittens, capitalism and the bluish colour of veins, and what is left when life stops being a list of milestones.
By Ghita Benhayoune
Elsewhere in The Rania Post
I Have Found God and She Is From South Shields
Meet the Church of JADE. She won The X Factor with Little Mix, went solo, and made some of the most technically ambitious pop of the decade. Most people still cannot name a song.
By Rezi Getsadze
A Two Year Race To Record Every Human Move.
We’re at the stage of the future where our species seems to be moving past privacy concern all together for the sake of no longer doing exhausting chores. One company will clean your apartment for free in exchange for the footage. In more than 50 countries, the same trade is now being made by the hour.
By James
“Mamma Mia,” is Too Much Actually Too Much Or The Bare Minimum ?
Your girlfriend deserves a proposal like Malak Yacoubi’s, and I will personally hunt you down to the ends of Greece if you don’t give her her Mamma Mia moment.
By Rania Kettani
Zurich Strava Podium Snatcher Runs Triathlon Barefoot
Known on Strava for snatching the podiums on the hardest segments around, Alessandro Motta lined up at the Zurich City Triathlon chasing a real one. A wrong turn cost him a minute; a blown tyre, four kilometres from the bike finish, cost him the rest. Instead of stopping, he ran it barefoot. Interview with Rania Kettani.
By Rania Kettani