Canadian singer-songwriter Daniel Romano has announced a new album called How Ill Thy World Is Ordered. The record, which is Romano’s ninth of 2020, arrives on September 18 via his own You’ve Changed Records. Check out the video for a new song called “A Rat Without a Tale” below. “A rat without a tale, history
Ghislaine Maxwell on September 20, 2013 in New York City. Laura Cavanaugh | Getty Images Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite accused of abetting sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged abuse of underage girls, is being intensely watched in a New York City jail in an apparent effort to keep her from killing herself as Epstein did
Reginald Cunningham + Mia Feitel In ELLE.com‘s monthly series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. Brittany Packnett Cunningham wasn’t looking for the fame that sometimes comes with being an activist in 2020. She started her career as an educator who
Hulu has revealed the first poster, as well as a premiere date, for Books of Blood. The new horror anthology movie will be adapting tales from author Clive Barker’s book series of the same name. The good news for horror fans is that it will be arriving just in time for Halloween, with a premiere
Ted Lasso will be starting soon, and we had the opportunity to chat with the cast and creators to get their thoughts on the show. As noted in the Ted Lasso review (which will give you a good introduction of the show for our series of interviews), every member of the cast is valuable and
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . Student travelers take themselves out of one story and place themselves in another, one in which they have little control. With expectations
Aerial view of Lujiazui Financial District at dusk, Pudong, Shanghai, China. Fei Yang | Moment | Getty Images U.S. sanctions on Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam raises uncertainty for international banks that were looking at a historic opening of the Chinese financial market. The U.S. Treasury announced Friday sanctions on the semi-autonomous region’s chief executive and
Party line: the new protocol allows 10 parties to share information securely. (Courtesy: University of Witwatersrand) A “quantum secret sharing” scheme that allows 10 parties share information securely – the highest number so far – has been developed and demonstrated by researchers in South Africa. The protocol involves each party performing quantum operations on the photon without
WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic has slowed work on the first ViaSat-3 broadband satellite, making a launch in mid-2021 unlikely, Viasat CEO Mark Dankberg said Aug. 7. Speaking during an earnings call for the quarter ended June 30, Dankberg said the pandemic continued to weaken demand for inflight connectivity services, but did not have as
President Donald Trump was abruptly evacuated from a press briefing on Monday evening just minutes after he began speaking because of a shooting outside of the White House. “There was an actual shooting, and somebody has been taken to the hospital. I don’t know the condition of the person,” Trump said after he returned to
Exclusive Kanye West is firing back at the Wisconsin Democratic Party, and now officially beefing with it … accusing the Dems of spying on his presidential campaign. Kanye’s responding to a complaint in the Badger State asking officials to block Ye from the ballot due to allegedly submitting fake signatures and failing to get signatures
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, August 8, 2020. Joshua Roberts | Reuters President Donald Trump on Monday urged Americans to stop politicizing the coronavirus, only to blame the outbreak in the United States on China
The Rogue One Prequel series has cast 6 Underground actress Adria Arjona in a lead role. Arjona joins series leads Diego Luna and Alan Tudyk, who were both in the 2016 prequel to A New Hope. Genevieve O’Reilly, Denise Gough, Stellan Skarsgard, and Kyle Soller are also starring in the upcoming Disney+ live-action Star Wars
Everything is right in the world when we get snippets of Kenmando in Mexico. At this rate, after the events of 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way Season 2 Episode 11, they’re the only couple who will get their happy marriage. We’re manifesting that positive energy, dammit. Sadly, one can’t say the same about Brittany
Since the discovery of the Higgs Boson (or, more infamously, the “God Particle”) in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) based at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), particle physicists have sought to expand their ability to probe Nature’s deepest secrets. Although the Higgs was the last missing piece of the Standard Model
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . Raven Leilani’s debut novel, Luster confronts what it means to be hungry and desperate as a Black artist. The novel is about
The good news: The United States has a window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 before things get much, much worse. The bad news: That window is rapidly closing. And the country seems unwilling or unable to seize the moment. Winter is coming. Winter means cold and flu season, which is all but sure to
Richard van Leeuwen is a senior lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Amsterdam. This year, he won the 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Arabic Culture in Other Languages category for his book The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings, which reveals how the collection of Arab tales supplied