It’s worth considering that perhaps Kanye, and also Kusama, might somehow be off-limits from criticism because of their well-publicized mental illnesses. It’s certainly been enough to have put an asterisk…
Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, who was serving a life sentence for genocide in the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, has died aged 84 in the United Nations detention centre…
Last year's total of 2,289 was previously the highest number of recorded measles cases in more than 30 years, CDC data shows. However, the 2,777 total now marks the highest…
A Conversation with Lily Kovacs (literary agent over at our prize partner Curtis Brown) about the literary world today, indie publishing, how writers find agents, how agents find writers, the…
The Silistra Quartet began with Janet’s first novel, High Couch of Silistra, which appeared in paperback from Bantam Books in 1977 with a classic cover by Boris (above left). Although…
More Than a Week After Devastating Storms, Gary Residents Are Still Without Power
The legacy of Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game has become inextricably entangled with a defining trope of AIDS-era mainstream queer representation: the revelation that exposes the gender identity of a…
I suppose I see where we are right now like this: the media and political parties refuse to call racists, racist or bigots, bigots. They editorialise as if racists have…
It turns out that Taylor Farms, the agricultural company widely believed to be behind the cyclospora outbreak currently raging throughout the US, is also heavily involved in modern-day forced labor.…
For former Vice President Kamala Harris, figuring out how to restore the hobbled Voting Rights Act (VRA) is not something that voters and lawmakers should be focused on right now. …