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This week, we talk to the hosts of the new podcast Backfired about how the e-cigarette industry got to where it is today and where it can go from here.

Everything that I needed to know about life, by which I mean suffering, was taught to me in a single afternoon. It was summer, the heart of the rainy season the year I was nine. By the time those few hours had elapsed, I had abandoned childhood, I think, or else it had abandoned me. […]

In an ancient book there was a man who lived on location in the desert. At noon he wrestled with the sun the way Jacob wrestled with a hot human angel all night long. When he got up from the dust, he had a new name that rhymed with his old one. Paul was the […]

John McGahern sought formality and distance in his prose, but his masterful novels were always underpinned by the difficult realities of his own life.

The French artist Jean Hélion approached painting with a philosophical precision, each style a hypothesis to be investigated and tested.

In James, Percival Everett’s smart, funny, brutal retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Everett takes readers deeper into the capricious yet certain violence of American slavery, giving the characters a life that seems to lift off the page.

I feel an obligation not to cryaround my dogelse she gets frightened and shakes. I’m not comparingchildren to dogs like Israel does,but they share emotionality and deep sensitivity and her shakingreminds me of the videos I downloadedonto my phone of Gazan children shaking in fear in hospitalsthat had only weeks left untilUS-made bombs destroyed them. […]

For the fixers, enablers, and vassals who surround Donald Trump, the rewards of his friendship are not worth the risks.

The short fiction of Ángel Bonomini possesses a lightness that sets him apart from contemporaries like Borges and Cortázar.

Gary Saul Morson is the world’s leading authority on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. In his latest book, conceived as a stocktaking magnum opus, wonder confronts certainty and triumphs decisively. But is the contest fair? Certainty is represented by the nineteenth-century Russian intelligentsia and its Bolshevik successors, wonder by the questions posed in Russian realist prose. Both […]

Tommy Orange’s novels document the shifting balance between the blessings and curses of modern Native life, most of which have been in operation since long before the characters were born.

Civilians in Gaza are in grave danger from Israel's disregard for international law.

“She ordered a coffee and a box of twelve doughnuts in the interest of research. The place was really rather good for scribbling. It was awfully nice, actually, not having to worry.”

In hundreds of essays and reviews, the nineteenth-century lawyer and judge James Fitzjames Stephen considered the novel’s effects on society at a time when it was becoming the dominant form of entertainment.

Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest puts all its faith in cinematic technique and forfeits much of the meaning in Martin Amis’s 2014 novel.

Older people are increasingly becoming the targets of fraudsters. Here’s how to stay safe and what to do if you think you’ve been scammed

What truly sets these new retreats apart is their deep-rooted connection to Maine—they're not just hotels, but love letters to the state.

1. “That’s true they don’t go far. But it’s never been great for your climb. They call it climate.”

The vice president had great courage, with so much character that his politics was not only an inspiration at home, but echoed throughout East, Central and Southern Africa

“Hansae has continuously inspired and grown with us to become our largest sourcing partner,” said Gap Inc.'s Richard Dickson.

The astronomical discoveries of the 1600s—such as Saturn’s rings—prompted new questions about the structure of the cosmos and humans’ place in it.

ACDF Architecture is proud to present the newly inaugurated T-A-St-Germain Library, located in downtown Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. Versatile and dynamic, the new library encourages spontaneous encounters, informal exchanges, discoveries, and self-fulfillment in a warm and tranquil environment. Going beyond the traditional model of a library focused on learning through reading, this 52,200 sqft. cultural hub offers a varied program spread over 3 floors. Key functions include 2 multi-purpose rooms... Читать дальше...

Kenya’s Ruto Scraps Tax Bill in Concession to Youth-Led Protests Following Bloody Crackdown, Bolivian Army Leader Arrested Following Apparent Coup Attempt, Thousands Flee as Israeli Army Launches Ground Assault on Gaza City, Haaretz Reports Israel Prison Service Is Starving Palestinian Prisoners, Thousands Suffer Heatstroke in Pakistan as Temperatures Hit 120 Degrees, Supreme Court Sides with Biden Administration over Efforts to Influence Social Media, Leaked Supreme Court Opinion Would Allow Idaho Doctors to Perform Some Emergency Abortions... Читать дальше...

The Southeast Asian Fisheries and Development Centre has successfully hosted the second leg of the Regional Sea Cucumber Roadshow 2024, featuring the latest advancements in holothurian fisheries and management.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- To the Columbus Symphony's Patriotic Pops at the Columbus Commons to ComFest at Goodale Park, here are things to see and do this weekend in central Ohio. Clippers vs. Storm Chasers Huntington Park on Thursday through Sunday AJR | The Maybe Man Tour Nationwide Arena at 7:30 p.m. on Friday Patriotic [...]