Briefly Noted Book Reviews
“Hey, Zoey,” “Sidetracks,” “Token Supremacy,” and “Committed.”
“Hey, Zoey,” “Sidetracks,” “Token Supremacy,” and “Committed.”
My wife is fond of expensive men’s watches, Norwegian death metal, and private jets. I am not.
“He slowly peeled / off the glossy paper, & he just / held the apple as if it were / golden.”
“Late August, your estuary, now / Flattens gray, and the eroded / Pilings stagger from landfall / Like upside-down legs.”
Where humans have tilted the game in favor of one species, some believe we should cull predators to save their prey. Others think it’s a mistake to pick sides.
Its agents are often depicted as malevolent puppet masters—or as bumbling idiots. The truth is even less comforting.
A century ago, some Manhattan blue bloods in Blue Hill, Maine, decided that performing Gilbert and Sullivan would keep the kids out of trouble. They’re still at it.
You vs. me, good vs. evil, ketchup vs. mustard, and more.
The United States does need a more orderly border. It also needs more immigrants, who are critical to the country’s economic strength.
We saw every animal that was in “The Lion King” and then some. They were just there, like ants at a picnic, except that they were elephants and giraffes and zebras.
Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom was founded on a total belief in the power of dialogue. In the wake of Hamas’s attack and amid Israel’s war in Gaza, a “very loud silence” has fallen.
How the hip-hop star’s beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy turned a beach house in Malibu, designed by the Japanese master Tadao Ando, into a ruin.
The animation juggernaut is now streamed for billions of hours each year, including on Netflix and its own YouTube channel. Should we be worried about that?
The MSNBC star plunges back into America’s ultraright with a second installment of her Ultra podcast, a little-known saga with striking parallels to Donald Trump’s demagoguery. History “piles up,” says Maddow. “So seeing what we’re standing on is really helpful.”
As COVID ravaged production lines nationwide, the former president stoked baseless fears about meat shortages and personally ordered plants to stay open, all at the behest of the agribusiness lobby, as Peter S. Goodman writes in an excerpt of his new book, How the World Ran Out of Everything.
Macworld
If your Dad isn’t getting ahead of the AI revolution, then he’s already falling behind. Like, is Dad’s current operating system using artificial intelligence features to improve his computing experience?
If the answer is no (or even if you aren’t sure), upgrade Dad now to Microsoft Windows 11 Pro to enjoy enhanced UI abilities, better multitasking, improved security, and yes, the advantages of AI tools to help make his PC truly sing.
Of particular interest in Windows 11 Pro is Windows Copilot... Читать дальше...
Ever since the crushing end of Tottenham’s incredible start of the season run, where the recently appointed Ange Postecoglou incredibly had won eight of his...
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Wyndham Clark celebrates his victory at the 2023 U.S. Open. | Photo by Keyur Khamar/PGA Tour via Getty Images
The U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 is here, so we have provided the latest odds and some predictions for the third major of the year.
Читать дальше...One in five Canadians say they or someone they know used a food bank within the past 12 months, a new survey shows.
Many chief marketing officers want their market research to possess more of these three qualities: Faster, cheaper, better. Making it happen, however, can be difficult--especially in the business-to-business category, which targets a more select group of individuals than business-to-consumer. Assembling focus groups takes time. Getting business leaders to fill out surveys can be expensive. Obtaining...
Ahead of the 2024 Cannes Lions festival, ADWEEK asked creatives who have either won a prestigious Cannes Lions Award or served on a jury at the event to give us their picks for creative they think will win this year. The picks ranged from spots that ran on advertising's biggest stage--the Super Bowl--to fantastic films...
Joseph Muscat was charged with corruption last month. Photo: Matthew Mirabelli
Here I am practising my ultrasound skills in a case of abdominal pain in the horse, also known as colic.
Have you been to the Trump Ocean Resort Baja Mexico? It’s absolutely lovely; you must visit one of these days. I did, a little while back. Let me tell you all about it. The resort is in Mexico, just over the border with the United States and southwest of “TJ,” as Tijuana is generally known to locals from both nations. My visit took place during a family trip through Baja. I had to go, to see what golden glories Donald Trump had foisted on this nation of supposed “bad hombres.”
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