The reaction to the Washington DC shooting shows that Americans are swinging between outrage, exhaustion and numbness
In the early hours of Sunday, I awoke to check the time on my phone and learned t…
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Yellow Letters wins Berlin Golden Bear at film festival overshadowed by Gaza row ⊕⊕
German director İlker Çatak’s Turkey-set film tackling creeping authoritarianism gave the jury ‘chills’
Yellow Letters, a drama set in Turkey about creeping authoritarianism, has won the Golden Bear t…
Where is the outrage over five-year-old Liam Ramos’s detention? | Francine Prose ⊕
Do the people imprisoning these kids like Liam Ramos have no children of their own? Do they have no decency, compassion or basic humanity?
Liam Conejo Ramos. We have all seen his picture, or by now we…
Brand Beckham and the rise of the clapback costume ⊖
When words fail, clothes do the talking – from the Beckhams to Diana’s revenge dress, fashion is the language of image management
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David Beckham joins son Cruz, Romeo and their girlfriends in Paris for Haute Couture Fashion Week as wife Victoria is made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters - a week after son Brooklyn's bombshell statement ⊕
Fresh off an unexpected trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Beckham, 50, emerged in the French capital as the dust slowly settles on his eldest son's bombshell statement.
America feels like a country on the brink of an authoritarian takeover | Francine Prose ⊖
This is the news we should be paying attention to. At least for the moment, everything else is a distraction
When we talk about our inability to pay attention, to concentrate, we often mean and blame …
7 months ago
Ali Faqirzada is an Afghan refugee. He deserves to stay in America | Francine Prose ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
In a more reasonable, more compassionate country, we would thank Ali Faqirzada for how much he has done on behalf of his people and our own
On 14 October, Ali Faqirzada – an Afghan refugee, a resident…
8 months ago
John Updike: A Life in Letters review – the man incapable of writing a bad sentence ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Friends, enemies and lovers animate more than 60 years of the author’s remarkable correspondence
John Updike had the mind of a middling middle-class postwar American male, and the prose style of a li…
King formally removes Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's prince title and his HRH style by issuing Letters Patent ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
King Charles today formally stripped his brother Andrew of his prince title. The monarch has also stripped him of his HRH by issuing a rare Letters Patent.
11 months ago
We shouldn’t focus on ‘how bad slavery was’ says Trump. What’s next? | Francine Prose ○
Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian are meant to convince us that truth doesn’t matter and we should blindly accept his lies
Donald Trump’s critique of the Smithsonian Institution for its focus on “how…