Category: General
Jonathan Raban: I felt pretty happy that I was still alive
The author on his recovery after a stroke and his fears for a dis-United States. On 11 June 2011, a few days before his 69th birthday, Jonathan Raban was sitting with his daughter Julia at home in Seattle. He’d felt foggy and out of sorts since waking. Having reheated a casserole, he looked down to […]
Out from the shadows: why cruising had a cultural moment in 2016
From an acclaimed novel to an immersive theater experience, the divisive sexual practice made a comeback in art amid heightened anxiety over sex and gender. On a Saturday afternoon shortly before Christmas, I found myself in the dungeon-like basement of a sex club in Manhattan to see a site-specific performance called Adonis Memories. It was […]
Richard Adams obituary
Author of the classic 1970’s novel Watership Down, the allegorical tale of a colony of rabbits. Richard Adams, who has died aged 96, was the author of one of the most successful books of the 1970s. Published in 1972, Watership Down, Adams’ story about a colony of rabbits travelling across the country in search of […]
Stephen Hawking Fast Facts
(CNN)Here’s a look at the life of the world renowned theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astronomer and mathematician, Stephen Hawking. Personal: Birth date: January 8, 1942 Birthplace: Oxford, England (grew up in and around London) Birth name: Stephen William Hawking Father: Frank Hawking, a doctor and research biologist Mother: E. Isobel Hawking Marriages: Elaine Mason (1995-2006, divorce); […]
US could wait until next summer to raise interest rates, say economists
Surveyed experts predicted last weeks rate rise would be followed by two more next year, not three. The Federal Reserve could wait until at least next summer before raising interest rates again, according to Wall Street economists surveyed by the Financial Times. Expectations that a rate rise last week by the US central bank would […]