In the opening pages of Lena Andersson’s novel Willful Disregard, we are told that Ester Nilsson, a thirty-one-year-old poet and essayist in Stockholm with “eight slim but densely written publications to her name,” renounced expensive living, ate cheaply, was always careful about contraception, only traveled rationally, had never been in debt to the bank or […]
A few days before his sixtieth birthday, in 1903, Henry James wrote to his brother William of his desire to return to his native land after twenty-some years of self-exile. William quickly responded that the trip was a bad idea; he could imagine “the sort of physical loathing with which many features of our national […]
The twenty years of war since the September 11, 2001, attacks have killed more than 900,000 people, displaced at least 38 million, and cost the United States an estimated $8 trillion.1 During these two decades of intense fighting and killing, the US has been responsible for a quantity of suffering that would have been unthinkable […]
Here it comes now, at the last, the woodpecker.It’s come from afar.It’s put its beak in above my heart.Lie still it says.Very still.Listen.You loved the light, it says, of day.You let it touch yr face all yr life & u never apologized, never feltthe distance in it—its howling—its giganticmemory. You did not bury yr face […]
On a Wednesday evening in December, I took a tour of a parking garage that had been transformed into housing. It was located in the northeast of Paris, in the nineteenth arrondissement, a working-class quarter that has been growing more expensive for over a decade. The building had an imposing entrance and was surrounded by […]
Het behouden huis—literally “the preserved (or surviving) house”—a novella by the Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans, was published in 1951 and translated into English by Estelle Debrot as The House of Refuge in 1966, then by David Colmer as An Untouched House in 2018. If, in the future, works of fiction must carry content warnings, […]
Marc Pritchard in ANA speech and interview compares current upfront to toilet paper hoarding, seeks 'synchronized' trading and lauds retail media.
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LAS VEGAS – At the media day for UFC 272, fighters weighed in on how the grudge match between teammates turned rivals Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal will play out.
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In legal history male terminology shifted after centuries to include females, but now we need to use nonbinary pronouns to include sexual identity
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Although a legal framework exists, regulation and implementation fall through the cracks, as shown by the UPL chemical spill in KwaZulu-Natal
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Days after Twitter moved to slap labels on tweets posting content from Russian state-affiliated media, the social media giant says it’s taking extra steps to slow the circulation of such content on its platform.
What’s so hard about condemning Vladimir Putin?
IPG creative agency Elephant has promoted Chris May to the newly created position of chief creative officer. May, one of Elephant's founding members, was previously executive creative director. In his new role he will be tasked with establishing the creative vision for Elephant, as well as attracting and retaining top creatives and diverse talent. He...
Meta kicked off Women's History Month with Thursday's release of an installment of its ongoing Global State of Small Business report series dedicated to women-led businesses. The company found that small and midsized businesses led by women are facing the challenges of the pandemic by effectively shifting their businesses online and leaning on digital tools....
John Hodgman and David Rees have been friends and colleagues for years, even as their careers have taken similarly esoteric arcs across the pop culture sphere: Hodgman, from literary agent, to author, to computer pitchman, to general actor, memoirist, and raconteur; Rees, from the creator of beloved web comic Get Your…
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Out in theaters and on Showtime March 4, the warm, unassuming film centers on a family whose resident “technobeing,” Yang—a companion for their adopted Chinese daughter—begins to malfunction.