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Daniel Laskin When Misha Rai sat down to write the introduction for Art and the Moment, the Kenyon Review’s special project on voting, it was natural that she would turn to personal memories. Rai has an instinct for storytelling, a style brimming with narrative warmth, and a gift for interweaving layers of time and meaning, uncovering flashes when the wider world, with its conflict and complexity, surprises ordinary life. In this case she evoked two scenes. There is her childhood home in India, where her father would expect young Misha and her brother to read one of the family’s four new...

The so-called New York City variant doesn't appear to be deadlier than other forms of the virus, according to preliminary data. That could change.

Taarifa Rwanda Published 3 months ago 0share In 2009, Rwanda became the 54th member of the Commonwealth becoming the second country (after Mozambique) not to have any historical ties with the United Kingdom. Rwanda currently at a size of 12 million people had been a colony of Germany in the 19th century and of Belgium for the first half of the 20th century. At the beginning of 2000, Rwanda announced it would aspire for greater heights and break away from some historical bottlenecks that may have been blocking its self realisation and determination. Landlocked Rwanda joined the East African C...

Native to certain states of Mexico, mezcal is making its way North onto cocktail menus all over the country. In fact, Business Wire predicts the market demand for the agave-based alcohol will grow by more than $980 million in the next four years. But what is mezcal, anyway? If you're like me and not a mixologist or well-versed in types of alcohol, you might wonder what the difference is between mezcal and tequila. They are both agave-based spirits, after all. While this is true, their succulent plant roots are the only relation shared. There are more than 200 varieties of agave. Tequila is so...

Good morning, it’s Dec. 11, 2020. As most readers who have small children in their lives are acutely aware, we’re precisely two weeks away from Christmas Day. This is also a Friday, the day the week when I reprise an instructive or inspirational quotation. Today’s comes from the Rev. Billy Graham, with an assist from John F. Kennedy Jr. and his father. First, though, I’ll point you to RealClearPolitics’ front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion pieces spanning the political spectrum. We also offer an array original material f...