Ismail Kadare has a remarkable quality of saying a great deal and with much clarity, but in an elusive, oblique, and allegorical way. Peter Constantine situates Kadare’s work in the long history of the Balkans and in the broader tradition of writers who practice their craft under the constraints of censorship. Anton Chekhov, in his
by Trevor Kimball, February 17, 2021 (CBS) In the fall, Anna Faris left Mom, and now, the long-running sitcom is leaving CBS. The network has announced that the comedy series is ending and that the series finale will air on Thursday, May 6th. The Mom TV series stars Allison Janney, Mimi Kennedy, Jaime Pressly, Beth
The chiefs of Robinhood, Reddit, Citadel and Melvin Capital, are headed to Washington for Thursday’s highly anticipated GameStop hearing at the U.S. Congress. Lawmakers will get their chance to grill the CEOs, as well as the Reddit trading star known as Roaring Kitty, about last month’s GameStop trading turmoil. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, Melvin Capital
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday set reopening dates for amusement parks, indoor family recreation centers and summer camps — the latest venues to get a nod as movie theaters in the city remain shuttered. That’s despite Manhattan having the lowest Covid-19 infection rate in New York — 2.5%, confirmed at the governor’s press briefing
WASHINGTON — On the eve of the landing of the rover Perseverance on Mars, scientists are looking ahead to the work it will do searching for evidence of past life on the planet and collecting samples for return to Earth. At a Feb. 17 briefing a little more than 24 hours before Mars 2020 arrives
Fortnite creator Epic Games has taken its fight against Apple to EU antitrust regulators after failing to make headway in a US court in a dispute over the iPhone maker’s payment system on its App Store and control over apps downloads. The two companies have been locked in a legal dispute since August last year
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 14, 2019. Alexei Nikolsky | Sputnik | Kremlin via Reuters UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – President Joe Biden‘s press secretary delivered a striking message to Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, this
Play video content Breaking News Youtube/Demi Lovato Demi Lovato is revealing for the first time doctors believed she only had 5-10 minutes to live when she overdosed … and it’s all part of one of the most anticipated documentaries of the year. The singer says she suffered 3 strokes and a heart attack during the
The GameStop Corp. logo on a laptop computer and Robinhood application on a smartphone. Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Rep. Ro Khanna, Silicon Valley’s lawmaker in Congress, on Thursday proposed a bill aimed at bulking up the Internal Revenue Service’s enforcement tools and ability to crack down on tax evasion. The legislation, if
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. The first thing I notice about Norma Kamali over Zoom—besides her impossibly youthful, famously acupunctured face and her signature cat-eye glasses, that is—is the quote painted on the wall behind her, by Søren Kirkegaard: “Life is a mystery to be lived,
It was announced last summer that Predator and Alien are both coming to Marvel Comics. But not without wrecking a little havoc amongst their various iconic superheroes first. The Hunter from Predator will be getting a new series of Marvel stories later in 2021. Before that happens, the iconic 20th Century Fox movie monster, who
The only thing more dangerous than a drug dealer taking out other drug dealers is an unstable CI. And that’s just what Intelligence encountered on Chicago PD Season 8 Episode 7. Man, that was one hell of an episode. It was messy, emotional, heartbreaking, and, at times, frustrating. It’s been a while since an episode focused
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. I wish I remembered exactly where my dad got the 1992 Royal Rumble tape. I imagine it was from the packaging factory
Cyrus Whittaker, left, and Debbie Orca sit around a fire in the homeless camp where they live during record breaking cold and snow in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on February 16, 2021. Nick Oxford | The Washington Post | Getty Images The major winter storm that’s swept across the South this week and knocked out power
Taken from the February 2021 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app.
By: Hannah Pell Physics Physics tells us a lot about what we can do. We can use it to predict the motions of the stars to the most fundamental constituents of matter and nearly everything in between; physics can be a powerful tool for us to realize new possibilities beyond what we’ve known before. However,
The Space Force is buying advanced GPS receivers that can take advantage of a jam-resistant signal known as M-code. WASHINGTON — BAE Systems announced on Feb. 17 that it won the largest share of a $552 million deal the Space Force awarded to three companies in November to design and manufacture advanced GPS receivers that
Facebook was fined EUR 7 million (roughly Rs. 61 crore) by an Italian watchdog for not complying with a request by the regulator to correct improper commercial practices in the group’s treatment of user data. Facebook was not immediately available for comment. In November 2018, the antitrust body ruled that Facebook had not informed users