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Dave Eggers, founder of McSweeney’s, says contemporary novelists should shelve their work for now. Instead, he argues, we should focus on ridding the world of Trump and then searching for utopia.
Signs of the times
Museums across the world are gathering the artefacts that will stand as symbols of the lockdown.
Out of my house
Is that the door closing on Airbnb? As futurists predict a return to ‘cocooning’, the sharing economy faces suspension. Question is, do we care about the future of services like UberPool?
I miss my desk
Now that we’ve all proved we can work from home, are we done with the office? Not even remotely.
Radical departures: rethinking air travel
The aviation industry is struggling with the pandemic's fallout. It's time to ground its worst impulses and make passengers fall back in love with flying, seizing this moment for change.
How we roll
This is the time to fix public transport and get people walking and cycling. Let’s go.
Is it time to take control of cruises?
Already under fire for their environmental impact, megaships were ill-equipped for a pandemic. Cruise expert Monty Mathisen tells us how the industry might adapt to stay afloat and win back public trust.
Built to last
Will the pandemic change our cities? Danish architect Jan Gehl says perhaps. While this moment will pass, we can at least reconsider things like cruise ships and prioritise human connection in our urban spaces.
Night of terror
As this report of an air raid in 1940 London illustrates, life during wartime was very different from today: fragile, unforgiving and, at every moment, perilously close to its end.
Core values
The mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, tells us why we’re all better served by inner-city living and that Australians should embrace holidaying at home.
