Krithika Varagur

The economist’s lifelong pugilism wasn’t in spite of his success—it may have been the key to it.

For American journalists abroad in the interwar period, it paid to have enthusiasm, openness, and curiosity, but not necessarily a world view.

Whether exploring the dread of everyday life or the horrors of the occult, her ghost tales documented a nation haunted by isolation, class, and despair.