If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Everyone has something to say in Jaime Cortez’s debut collection of short fiction, Gordo. There’s Raymundo, the town’s openly gay hairdresser who
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea will invest 16 trillion won ($13.6 billion) over the next 10 years in bolstering its defense capabilities in outer space. This includes 1.6 trillion won to be used to develop “core technologies” for military satellites. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), the national arms procurement agency, unveiled the roadmap
Rescuers evacuate stranded people in the waterlogged urban area of Weihui City in Xinxiang, central China’s Henan Province, July 27, 2021. Li An | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Severe rainstorms and flooding in China are hurting the profits of insurance companies, and highlight the shortfalls of the country’s natural disaster insurance system. Flooding
Motorola Edge 20 Pro India launch has now been confirmed. The smartphone was launched globally in late July, and later as Motorola Edge S Pro in China. The India launch for the Motorola Edge 20 Pro was confirmed by a tweet from the company’s India Head. The global variant of the Motorola Edge 20 Pro
by Trevor Kimball, August 18, 2021 (Freeform/Ser Baffo) Nicholas and his unique family won’t return for the 2021-22 television season. Freeform has cancelled the Everything’s Gonna Be Okay comedy series so there’s not going to be a third season. The now de facto series finale aired in June. The Everything’s Gonna Be Okay TV show
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a media briefing at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, in Washington. Alex Brandon | AP WASHINGTON – The Pentagon on Wednesday acknowledged that it does not currently have the capability to safely escort Americans in Kabul to the airport for evacuation as the Taliban consolidate control in
News Neil Young Withdraws From Farm Aid 2021 Over COVID-19 Concerns “I don’t want to play until you feel safe, and it is indeed, safe,” the musician and festival co-founder wrote on his website By Madison Bloom August 18, 2021 Facebook Twitter Neil Young at Farm Aid 2019 (Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images). Facebook Twitter
In this article TSLA A Tesla Model S car is displayed at a Tesla showroom on November 5, 2013 in Palo Alto, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Some Tesla customers in Florida and California have experienced delivery delays of weeks or months, forcing them to rely on borrowed cars,
Meet Marvel’s newest super team. The Eternals are an immortal alien race sent to Earth by the Celestials to defend humanity and have been silently keeping watch for 7,000 years (yes, even through Thanos’ infamous finger snap). With Eternals arriving in theaters this November, we’ll soon be able to see this band of heroes in
Days of Our Lives will take viewers beyond Salem next month. Peacock has announced the five-part spinoff kicks off Monday, September 6, with new episodes made available daily. The limited series finale is set for Friday, September 10. Lisa Rinna is set as the lead of the spinoff, reprising her role as Billie Reed. Eileen
Finding First Love Under a Beach Blanket Reena Shah Share article If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. “Chowpatty Beach” by Reena Shah Naren was in sixth standard when Velinda
Marvel, Fast & Furious and Ryan Reynolds movies aren’t the only titles that had to sit out and wait for their theatrical release during the pandemic, but also highly anticipated indie pics like David Bruckner’s The Night House. Before Covid, a slice of the world got a glimpse of the Rebecca Hall haunted lake real estate title
SEOUL, South Korea — Satrec Initiative, a satellite maker under South Korea’s Hanwha Group, will send a high-resolution imaging satellite called SpaceEye-T into low Earth orbit by the first quarter of 2024, in the first step toward building its own constellation of Earth observation satellites. The company unveiled the plan Aug. 18, saying SpaceEye-T will
Federal Reserve officials at their July gathering made plans to pull back the pace of their monthly bond purchases likely before the end of the year, meeting minutes released Wednesday indicated. However, the summary of the July 27-28 Federal Open Market Committee gathering indicated that the central bankers wanted to be clear that the reduction,
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Photo by Steven Taylor / Flickr The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s first novel, is textually connected to the works of Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison, to name a few. Forthcoming from HarperCollins on August 24, the novel recounts
Battlegrounds Mobile India has just released on iOS after being available to Android users for two months now. The game is the Indian avatar of PUBG Mobile that was banned in India back in September last year but was highly popular on both Android and iOS platforms. After two months of waiting, iPhone and iPad
US National Security advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during the daily press briefing on the situation in Afghanistan at the White House in Washington, DC on August 17, 2021. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Newly empowered Taliban militants have informed the U.S. that they are prepared to provide safe passage for civilians attempting to