What We Are Reading Today: Across the Universe

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Updated 31 December 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: Across the Universe

  • “Across the Universe” interrogates all the ways words and the games we make using those words‚ Äî change our culture while bringing us into the worlds of those pushing for the crosswords much-needed evolution

Author: Natan Last

Natan Last’s “Across the Universe” explores the debates about the future of the crossword and investigates those who want the puzzle to transform into a tool of progressivism; ultimately, asking if the crossword can help us reshape the world.

“Across the Universe” interrogates all the ways words and the games we make using those words‚ Äî change our culture while bringing us into the worlds of those pushing for the crosswords much-needed evolution.

 


What We Are Reading Today: Corporate Crime and Punishment

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Updated 27 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: Corporate Crime and Punishment

  • Many critics of globalization and corporate impunity cheer this turn toward accountability

Author: Cornelia Wall

Over the past decade, many of the world’s biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental damage, tax evasion, or sanction violations.

Corporations including Volkswagen, BP, and Credit Suisse have paid record-breaking fines.

Many critics of globalization and corporate impunity cheer this turn toward accountability. Others, however, question American dominance in legal battles that seem to impose domestic legal norms beyond national boundaries.

In this book, Cornelia Woll examines the politics of American corporate criminal law’s extraterritorial reach.