It’s not just public catastrophe, like the HIV or COVID-19 pandemic, that drives us to write. A private catastrophe, one just in our own body, can do the same. In 1976, Susan Sontag sat dying or not dying, and she wrote. Sontag had cancer. She wrote about cancer in Illness as Metaphor. She wrote as
Investment in fintech is slowing as worries around rising inflation and the prospect of higher interest rates have dented economic sentiment. Elena Noviello | Moment | Getty Images AMSTERDAM — Financial technology companies are putting IPO plans on hold and cutting expenses as fears of an impending recession cause a shift in how investors view
Real estate agents Rosa Arrigo, center, and Elisa Rosen, right, work an open house in West Hempstead, New York. Newsday LLC | Newsday | Getty Images Mortgage rates are back on the upswing, after a brief decline in May, and the housing market is still suffering from a lack of listings. As a result, mortgage
The producers of the Tony-winning Come From Away said Wednesday that the long-running Broadway musical will play its final show in October at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. It will end a run that will have lasted 1,670 performances and 25 previews after it first opened in February 2017. The news makes Come From Away the
The committee’s proposal advocates for greater DoD use of commercial remote sensing satellite data such as radio-frequency and synthetic aperture radar WASHINGTON — The House Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on strategic forces on June 8 passed its proposals for the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act. The strategic forces panel – which covers military
Mi Smart Band 7 could be making its debut in the global market soon. The details are yet to be officially intimated by the company, but the latest wearable has reportedly been spotted on the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) certification site, hinting that it may arrive globally soon. Xiaomi recently unveiled the Mi Smart
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (C) gives two thumbs up as Donald Trump Jr. (L) and Ivanka Trump (R) stand and cheer for Eric Trump as he delivers his speech during the third day of the Republican National Convention on July 20, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Joe Raedle | Getty
News Reigning Sound Break Up In a note that announced the cancellation of their upcoming tour, Greg Cartwright added: “We are also formally announcing the end of the group.” By Madison Bloom June 8, 2022 Facebook Twitter Reigning Sound, photo by Brent Shrewsbury Facebook Twitter Reigning Sound, the Memphis-born rock group led by Greg Cartwright,
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks at a rally with gun violence prevention organizations, gun violence survivors and hundreds of gun safety supporters demanding gun legislation, ouside the United States Capitol in Washington, June 8, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters The U.S. House on Wednesday voted to raise the minimum age to purchase
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Before it took her to the runways of Tom Ford-era Gucci and Karl Lagerfeld-era Chanel, Carolyn Murphy’s romance with fashion began with a humble pair of Care Bears jeans. Growing up in small-town Florida, she says, “I wasn’t really exposed [to
Prolific actor, director, and producer Adam Arkin directs four episodes of The Offer on Paramount+, including the upcoming penultimate episode and the finale. We had a chance to chat with him about his work on The Offer and his other work just before he began shooting a series in Vancouver. Catch his latest work with
Perhaps no single article of clothing says more about a man than the one he wears on his lower half. We’re talking, of course, about men’s pants. Shoes? Sure, they carry some weight. Shirts? Potentially bold statements aside, they just don’t have to work as hard. Men’s pants, though… now there’s a garment that walks
The first thing Grant Ginder did when we met on Zoom was apologize for his dog being a freak. This was fortuitous, because I was interviewing him from home and my dog is also a freak; I was primed to preempt my dog’s barking once he finished snarfing the peanut butter out of his Kong.
Taken from the June 2022 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. Glasses are much more mysterious than their crystalline counterparts, yet have a wealth of practical uses, says Jon Cartwright At the British Museum in London, there is a small turquoise-blue
In this article DOCU The Docusign Inc. website on a laptop computer arranged in Dobbs Ferry, New York, U.S., on Thursday, April 1, 2021. Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Campbell Soup – The food company saw shares gain 2.3% after reporting a better-than-expected quarterly
Following Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick strutting its stuff and Disney’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness‘ charge toward $1 billion, Universal and Amblin’s Jurassic World Dominion will once again prove that there’s a global appetite for moviegoing close to two years after cinemas reopened. Jurassic World Dominion, which has Colin Trevorrow returning to the director’s chair after
by Regina Avalos, June 6, 2022 The Midnight Gospel will not be returning for a second season. Netflix has cancelled the adult sci-fi animated series, per co-creator Duncan Trussell. The eight episodes of the first season were released in April 2020. The Midnight Gospel follows Clancy Gilroy (Duncan Trussell) from the planet Chromatic Ribbon as
WASHINGTON — France joined the U.S.-led Artemis Accords June 7, a long-anticipated but significant milestone for the effort to establish best practices for sustainable space exploration. In a ceremony at the French ambassador’s resident here, Philippe Baptiste, president of the French space agency CNES, signed the Artemis Accords alongside NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. The signing