Electric Lit is 12 years old! Help support the next dozen years by helping us raise $12,000 for 12 years, and get exclusive merch! Aruni Kashyap’s debut poetry collection, There Is No Good Time for Bad News, tells the story of India’s diverse and strife-riven borderlands, which have been neglected in Indian books, films, and
Month: November 2021
Stephan Wollenstein, CEO of Volkswagen China, presents the new ID.6 Crozz electric car during the Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition on April 19, 2021. Hector Retamal | AFP | Getty Images BEIJING — When it comes to their favorite electric car brand, Chinese consumers’ top choice is Warren Buffett-backed BYD, according to a survey by
WASHINGTON — NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, offline for more than a week because of an issue with its instruments, is likely to remain out of service for another week as engineers investigate the problem. Hubble’s science instruments went into a safe mode early Oct. 25 after they issued error codes indicating the loss of “synchronization
Core of the matter: can elements be synthesized deep within the Earth? (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Johan Swanepoel) Creating elements lighter than iron might not require the extreme conditions found inside very massive stars. According to a group of physicists in Japan and Canada, it is possible that oxygen, nitrogen and all other elements with atomic numbers up
Warner Bros/Legendary’s sci-fi epic Dune is crossing the $300M mark globally today, with North America totaling $71M through Monday and including $228.3M at the international box office. The Denis Villeneuve-directed world-building movie, based on Frank Herbert’s classic novel, initially debuted at the Venice Film Festival where it garnered strongly positive response. It has been on
NASA has shared a stunning image of a giant eye-shaped nebula that is among the brightest and closest to Earth. The image, captured by the agency’s Spitzer Space Telescope, showed a deep vacuum surrounded by a sparkling cloud of dust and gas. The dust and gas are spread over a two-light-year diameter around a central
U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is flanked by U.S. Senators’ Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) as he faces reporters following the Senate Democrats weekly policy lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, November 2, 2021. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that Democrats reached an agreement
Tasos Katopodis | Getty Images News | Getty Images Democrats jettisoned a number of proposals to raise taxes on the wealthy in their $1.75 trillion social and climate spending measure. But those taxes are set to increase even if lawmakers don’t touch them. Starting in 2026, the marginal income-tax rate paid by the highest earners
Britney Spears‘ lawyer says Jamie Spears has done an about-face — now urging the judge to end the conservatorship — to save his own hide from what might come out in a deposition. Mathew Rosengart filed legal docs essentially calling out Jamie, arguing he’s done a reversal over the conservatorship for selfish reasons. He suggests
In this article NFLX In this photo illustration the Netflix logo in the App Store seen displayed on a smartphone screen. Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Netflix started rolling out its mobile games Tuesday, pushing the streaming giant into a new business as it looks for additional ways to gain
Donning a pair of tights and a tattered copy of King Lear might not sound like the most clear-headed response to a swine flu pandemic decimating the population, but hey, after a year like 2020, are we really the ones to judge? It’s impossible not to feel a kinship with the characters of Emily St.
A new era of NCIS is underway. The veteran CBS series has officially said goodbye to Mark Harmon’s Leroy Jethro Gibbs and hello to Gary Cole’s Alden Parker. If you watch NCIS online, you know there was much apprehension from the team to accept Parker, but somewhere along the way, he’s proven to be a
Electric Lit is 12 years old! Help support the next dozen years by helping us raise $12,000 for 12 years, and get exclusive merch! It’s easy to make fun of the folkniks—those mostly college kids in the late 50s and early 60s who suddenly turned to sea shanties, work songs, and banjos for their musical
Series editor’s note: The tree in Tamara J. Madison’s poem is one that holds a blemished beauty, both life-giving and life-taking. The speaker addresses the tree right away, opening an ancient wound that perhaps all black bodies will know deep in their bones; here is a tree, a living, pulsating thing, filled with beauty, and
Filmstock Events launches their first annual Industry Expo taking place this coming November 13, 2021, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Dania Beach Florida. The event date was selected to accommodate the activities and attendees of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival otherwise known as FLIFF. We expect talent and vendors and filmmakers from all
WASHINGTON — Redwire, a company built up by acquiring a series of space technology companies, has purchased space biotechnology company Techshot. Redwire announced Nov. 2 that it had purchased Techshot, an Indiana-based company that develops biotechnology payloads for microgravity research. Redwire declined to disclose the terms of the sale. Techshot was founded by Mark Deuser
People scan a QR health code as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus, before entering a shopping mall in Beijing on November 2, 2021. Jade Gao | AFP | Getty Images BEIJING — About half the flights to and from Beijing’s two airports were cancelled Tuesday as the capital tightened travel restrictions after a trickle of new cases in
Update: The Man From Toronto is walking away from MLK weekend 2022 where Kevin Hart has traditionally launched his Ride Along movies and will now open on Aug. 12, 2022. Man From Toronto leaves behind Spyglass and Paramount’s reboot of Scream on MLK, as well as the Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas 20th Century Studios thriller Deep Water and