The Guardian » 1 week ago
This immersive exploration of how we experience the nocturnal world is beautifully illuminatingAs children, we’re primed by literature to think of the night as a time for adventure as well as rest, but by early middle age, we’ve mostly ringfenced its darkness for sleep (o...
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LA Times » 1 week ago
In "Medicine River," Mary Annette Pember grapples with the harrowing legacy of boarding schools for Native Americans and the trauma they inflicted on her own family....
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The Pulitzer-nominated journalist recounts how modern misogyny has been shaped by a mass culture attuned to male desire and all-pervasive pornographyIn 2021, JD Vance told Fox News that senior Democrat women were just “childless cat ladies”, lacking cultural or social val...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
An altruistic companion to Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks aims to encourage anyone with a conscience to stop being a spectatorMany years ago there was a BBC children’s TV programme called Why Don’t You ...
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LA Times » 1 week ago
Fox News host and former White House press secretary Dana Perino, who has made mentoring part of her personal brand, shares career advice in her new book....
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
An Afghan exile’s account of life in war-torn Kabul and a Taliban-dominated refugee camp is an unflinching study of how radicalisation takes root, and his own renunciation of itBorn in Kabul, Maiwand Banayee aspired to become a Talib when he was 16. In 1994, living in a P...
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LA Times » 1 week ago
Matthew Specktor says the decline of the movie industry is hurting L.A.: "This used to be a city to dream of and I don't think it really is that anymore."...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
A closely observed country scene teems with the vitality of early summerThe old pond full of flags and fenced around
With trees and bushes trailing to the ground
The water reeds are all around the brink
And one clear place where cattle go ...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Stephen Witt’s entertaining study of the rise of chip company Nvidia portrays its leader, Jensen Huang, as a remarkable entrepreneur – sometimes energised by angerThis is the latest confirmation that the “great man” theory of history continues to thrive in Silicon Valley....
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Zink’s seventh novel, about a night of conversation and adventure, is full of wit and marvellous writing, but ultimately trails offCalifornia-born, Berlin-based Nell Zink is an idiosyncratic writer. You never quite know where her sentences are going to go. “Oh God, Toto, ...
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