World Wise
PEOPLE SURPRISE YOU. I was reminded of that universal fact reading this month’s cover profile of Dua Lipa, whose COVID-delayed world tour is confirming her as a dance-pop sensation, but whose offstage interests mark her as a person of uncommon curiosity and substance. “I’m always on the side of the oppressed,” she tells our writer Jen Wang—which is the kind of thing people say these days, but a passing acquaintance with Dua’s history reveals that she’s not posturing. Dua is the child of refugees—her parents fled violence in their native Kosovo under Slobodan Milošević’s tyranny—and she has launched a newsletter and podcast that cover everything from feminism to geopolitics to where to dine out in Tokyo. Dua’s sensitivity and wide-ranging interests have endeared her to a fascinating collection of friends,…