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This muddled feminist reworking of Coetzee’s celebrated novel fails to grasp his book’s ambiguities

Writers aren’t science experts, Grenville writes. But they might be able to influence their readers to cast their ballots for the climate

Kate Grenville, Helen Garner and Tony Birch join more than 60 authors in new Writers for Climate Action group

When Stuart Robert vetoed six research grants on Christmas Eve, he must have hoped the story would die a quiet death. He was wrong.

Biden Calls Navalnys Situation Totally Unfair After Doctors Sound Alarm About His Condition April 18, 2021 01:03 GMT Share share Print U.S. President Joe Biden on April 17 called the situation of jailed Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny "unfair" after doctors and Navalnys spokeswoman warned about his deteriorating health due to a hunger strike. "Its totally, totally unfair and totally inappropriate," Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, responding to a question about Navalnys reportedly w...

Print Every cinematographer prizes those spontaneous, magic moments — what photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson called “the decisive moment” — when the essence of the film crystalizes before the lens both visually and thematically. For Quyen Tran, Tobias Schliessler Chris Menges and Ben Smithard, their favorite shots from the notable new films they photographed all capture that ineffable yet decisive scene when the actors’ performances deepen our understanding with new layers of meaning...

New York Trilogy in three separate volumes, Laurie Colwin’s Happy All the Time, Barry Hannah’s Ray, Robb Forman Dew’s Dale Loves Sophie to Death (which won a National Book Award), Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Grace Paley’s Later the Same Day, Larry Heinemann’s Paco’s Story (another NBA winner), Frederick Barthelme’s Moon Deluxe, Frank Conroy’s Midair, Pete Dexter’s You Bright and Risen Angels, Ivan Doig’s English Creek, and Wallace Stegner’s Crossi...