The trial of the man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie has been postponed because of the publication of the author’s memoir about the attack. A lawyer representing Hadi Matar, who was charged... Read more »
“Does it ever worry you that Barbie’s building her dream bunker?” Source link Read more »
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Rivka Galchen reads her story “Crown Heights North,” from the... Read more »
January 9, 2024 • Institute Update The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the non-profit organization The Many Brains Project partnered with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) All of Us... Read more »
A magisterial comparative study, Proud to Punish recenters our understanding of modern punishment through a sweeping analysis of the global phenomenon of “rough justice”: the use of force to settle accounts and... Read more »
The first land to be colonized in the Americas was Haiti. Europeans first enslaved native Americans and captive Africans there, too. But the first permanent abolition of slavery also happened on Haiti,... Read more »
Zadie Smith, Paul Murray and Naomi Klein are among the authors who have been shortlisted for the Writers’ prize, the award previously known as the Rathbones Folio prize. Smith’s first historical novel... Read more »
Martin Scorsese says new Jesus film aims to ‘take away the negatives’ of organised religion | Movies
Martin Scorsese is to follow up his triumphant true-crime epic Killers of the Flower Moon with an 80-minute film about Jesus designed to “take away the negative[s] … associated with organised religion”.... Read more »
“When I was your age, we had to walk ten miles inside our apartments because we were quarantined.” Source link Read more »