LONDON: One of the most enjoyable articles I’ve ever read was called Up And Then Down, by Nick Paumgarten. It was published in the New Yorker in April 2008.
Today, it would be described as a long read. Back then it was simply an exhaustive study of the life and times of the elevator, or as Brits would call them — lifts.
Advertisement Advertisement Apart from the brilliance of the writing, the piece has stayed with me, more than a decade later, for the theories of social distancing the