The End of Reading is Here
by Rose Horowitch
What happens to a culture when the books survive but the readers disappear?
0:00 / 56:29 · Narrator Sulafat
Daily edition
2026-10-08
Today's Crosscut
War on Terror Aftermath
The long tail of the War on Terror survives in the private guilt of soldiers who left their Afghan allies behind and the broken military courts derailed by secret CIA torture.
The Promises the Afghanistan War Left Behind × The 9/11 Military Commission and Lessons of Recent History
0:00 / 23:44 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Future-gazing →
What Will Happen to Indian IT?
If a machine can write code and answer phones, what happens to the world's back office?
0:00 / 27:38 · Narrator Charon
Smart escape →
Art Can Be What You Smell
by Rena Behar
Once you let a smell loose in a gallery, can you ever really control what it does?
0:00 / 20:27 · Narrator Gacrux