Who is responsible for maintaining family lore? In Company, Shannon Sanders introduces—and repeatedly reintroduces—readers to the Collinses, a Black family with roots in D.C. and Atlantic City. Sanders, a master of character, makes every individual distinctive and recognizable even as they clearly belong to a whole, bound by shared history, values, and challenges. In “The
Month: November 2023
“Night of the Caregiver” starring Natalie Denise Sperl and The Exorcist’s Eileen Dietz is now streaming on Tubi, Amazon Prime and Vudu, and definitely provides chills and thrills for all horror movie enthusiasts. Synopsis: Hospice nurse Julia Rowe is hired to be caregiver for Lillian Gresham, who lives in an isolated house in a remote
A Black Belt in Karate Doesn’t Make a Fair Father Salar Abdoh Share article An excerpt from A Nearby Country Called Love by Salar Abdoh He couldn’t bear going back to the apartment just yet. The apartment of the dead. When they’d been much younger he had shared the big bedroom with his older brother
Follow the flow: Graphs showing the smooth flow of photocurrent streamlines around a microscopic structure shaped like an aeroplane wing. This electrofoil (top left) makes it possible to contort, compress and expand photocurrent streamlines in the same way that aeroplane wings (shown in silhouettes at right) contort, compress and expand the flow of air. (Courtesy:
The source of the sound Researchers find that the Kortokoff sounds heard through a stethoscope may not be sound waves at all. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Elle Aon) Tap, tap, tap… Swish, swish… Tap, tap… Whoooo… Silence. The Korotkoff sounds heard through a stethoscope are routine in non-invasive clinical blood pressure measurement. For over a century since the
Cataclysmic collision: It is thought that ‘rapid neutron-capture processes’ that occur during a neutron star merger could be responsible for producing heavy elements (courtesy: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet) Physicists in Japan and Lithuania have found evidence that tellurium is produced in neutron star mergers. Their findings bolster the idea that neutron star mergers are responsible
Venezuela, my home country, was once one of the richest countries in Latin America due to the discovery of oil at the start of the last century. Today, Venezuela is in political and economic turmoil with a mass exodus of more than 7 million. As I wrote my new memoir, Motherland about the fragile concept
The Masquerade of the Red Death is the one night every year where we gather in Brooklyn, celebrate with our community, and raise funds to support our work. It is also the night the spirit of our party patron saint Edgar Allan Poe is strongest, and the spooky vibes reach their peak! This year, our friends,
You are being kept in the dark. The most publicized news on the Hamas war in the last few days has been the opening of the Rafah Crossing with Egypt to let some of the thousands of citizens of foreign countries out of Gaza, including some Americans. And the Israeli bombardments two days in a row
Engineering icons: a small section of the new Tube map. (Courtesy: Transport for London) Perhaps the most iconic map ever is Harry Beck’s depiction of the London Underground, which first appeared in the 1930s. Now, Transport for London (TfL) – which runs the Underground – has partnered with the Royal Academy of Engineering to create
“The world here beats faster than a hummingbird’s wings,” writes Alexandra Chang in her new collection Tomb Sweeping. Chang, the author of Days of Distraction and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 recipient, writes poignantly about tenuous connection. In these stories, a wealthy housewife runs a gambling ring in Zheijiang, a young woman attends
The Mug Shot: Look straight ahead and contemplate the lousy Kirkus review you’re sure to get. The Talk Show Host: Place one hand under your chin and imagine listening to someone else, something you rarely do as a writer. The Orgasm: Throw your head back and grin ecstatically after ordering a box of your favorite
Some of the biggest mysteries of physics – including the nature of dark matter and dark energy, and the origin of the universe – are in the sights of cosmologists and astroparticle physicists. In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast I am in conversation with three editorial board members of the Journal of
THE GLOBAL FILM ALLIANCE The G.F.A. in Hollywood with a Powerful Collaboration of International Film Production Companies. Eleven independent film companies- JJ Filmworks and A Plus Films from Bulgaria,Talkinglens Productions from the UK, Montalvo Digital Studios, UK, Hollywood Entertainment News, USA, Night Owl Studio, California USA, Wartime Films, USA, 360 Studios LTD, USA, 360TVN,
“It’s brave of us to die!” writes Melissa Broder in Death Valley, a desert survival story. The woman in Broder’s third very funny novel, like Broder’s other characters, is recognizable by her need to “control the uncontrollable,” as well as her wit, occasional panic, deep and unrelenting introspection, and love affair with Best Westerns (“Where
Today #TheSimonettaLeinShow continues its highly anticipated 6th Season, as they welcome none other than Shark Tank’s very own, Daymond John, who they are so proud and elated to celebrate Black Entrepreneurs Day with. Daymond is known to be a quintessential self-starter, beginning his journey selling hats on the streets of New York City. He transformed
I Dressed Up as a Husband for My Wedding Marriage I was married once, at least we thought about it, it was in b&w, we were tiny, walking in a forest, the trees dwarfed us—the trees had been married forever, moss hung from their fallen branches, we had to step over them. We put on
Hot topic: For over the past decade, JET has been carrying out “ITER relevant” experiments, in anticipation of the opening of giant fusion reactor in Cadarache, France (courtesy: EUROfusion) More than 750 people have signed a petition against the planned closure of the Joint European Torus (JET), a major fusion experiment that has been running