Last Sunday, Brazilians returned Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the presidency with just over 51% of the vote, against 48% for Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. It was the first time since direct elections returned in 1989 that a candidate who lost the first round went on to win the runoff. Markets were caught off guard:…

Virginia Evans’ debut novel The Correspondent has become one of the literary surprises of the past year. The novel follows Sybil Van Antwerp, a retired lawyer living alone in Annapolis. She is the divorced mother of two living adult children and one who died when he was eight. The story is told entirely through the…

Picture the assignment we would all call a success. Eighteen months in, she has the language. She knows which meetings matter and which are theatre. Her local colleagues have stopped explaining things to her. When she pushes back in a meeting, nobody hears an outsider pushing back — they hear a colleague. Ask anyone in…