CRAIG BROWN Philip Roth by Blake Bailey is diligently researched, clearly written and panoramic
Philip Roth was wary of biographers. 'Biography,' he said, towards the end of his life, 'adds a new dimension to the terror of dying.' Read more...
Could the Pandemic Prompt an Epidemic of Loss of Women in the Sciences?
Even before the pandemic, many female scientists felt unsupported in their fields. Now, some are hitting a breaking point. Read more...
The Symposiums Saucy History
A Zoom lecture explores how ancient Greeks used alcohol to fuel their discussions, and how that culture informed their drinking vessels. Read more...
Trending Inspired by TV, Trips an Anglophile Would Love
The popularity of recent television series and movies like Downton Abbey and Paddington has inspired Anglophile-focused travel. Read more...
High Finishes at the Masters Are Becoming Familiar to First-Year Players
Will Zalatoris, who finished second at the Masters, one stroke behind the winner, is only the latest first-year player to contend for a green jacket. Read more...
A High School Reunion for Two
After almost four decades, John Capshaw reconnected with his childhood crush, Courtneye Barrett, on the dating app Bumble. Read more...
NYPD confiscates scary T-shirt gun mounted to rapper's Hummer
Christopher Stoney, 41, was stopped in Manhattan for driving his 2006 military green Hummer with a giant four-foot-long air rifle attached to the roof. Read more...
The 6 Best Speeches of Awards Season So Far
From a pajama-clad Jodie Foster to the teary Minari child star Alan S. Kim, they managed to make their acceptance speeches work from home. Read more...
Lizo Mzimba
An article on 29 October 2009 reported allegations made by a student website that BBC correspondent Lizo Mzimba had behaved in a drunken and inappropriate manner while researching a documentary about Cambridge University and that he had been humiliated by students as a result. We accept that Mr Mzimba has never worked on such a documentary, did not behave in a drunk or inappropriate manner and was not humiliated as claimed. We apologise for the distress and embarrassment caused. Read more...
Arlo the Alligator Boy Review Of Songs and Scales
This hyperactive animated Netflix musical for kids, with messages of empowerment and references to Midnight Cowboy, has a lot on its plate. Read more...
The Sabres Losing Streak Ends at 18
Buffalo had been on a dry spell, going 0-15-3 since late February, before beating Philadelphia on Wednesday. Read more...
Asian-American Artists, Now Activists, Push Back Against Hate
Newly spurred to action to combat bias, they generate subway posters, leverage social media, stage Zoom webinars. Our community couldnt take being invisible any longer, one artist says. Read more...
How the Queen and Prince Philip joyfully lived like a 'normal couple' in early years
The Queen kept her husband close during yesterday's funeral by carrying mementoes from their life together. Oneitem was believed to be a small photograph of the couple in Malta. Read more...
Book by Officer Who Shot Breonna Taylor Is a New Test for Publishers
Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, one of the officers involved in the fatal shooting, has a book deal with a small press, but its distributor, Simon Schuster, in an unusual move, said it wont ship it. Read more...
Covid-19 More than half of the UK has antibodies but scientists warn earlier immunity is fading
A major Office for National Statistics testing survey today revealed more than 80 per cent of adults aged between 64 and 73 had lifesaving antibodies on March 28 in the UK, but this is declining. Read more...