My earliest reading memory I’d say I’m four, nearly five. The year I start in school. I’m in our house near Dún Laoghaire in Dublin, sitting under the kitchen table, and I’m trying, and failing, to re...
02.03.2023 Theguardian.com and 5 sitesHe had reached the heights of the style trade, photographing essentially the most stunning fashions every month for Alexander Liberman’s Vogue ; he was capturing Bette Davis and Barbra Streisand for m...
02.02.2023 Nytimes.com and 3 sites‘Snow Crash’ by Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson’s science fiction novel Snow Crash predicted the Metaverse in 1992. This cult book has the amusingly-named Hiro Protagonist running around in an artific...
02.02.2023 Entrepreneurnews.co.uk and 4 sitesLast summer, a piece of artwork generated with artificial intelligence took a first prize at the Colorado State Fair. To me, the image looks like a view from the back of the stage at an opera. You see...
02.03.2023 Allusanewshub.com and 3 sitesIs President Trump acting as a sort of proxy president in the wake of Joe Biden's 2020 stolen election? The China spy balloon incident sure seems to indicate something of that sort. While Joe Biden was dithering and downplaying the news of a Chinese spy balloon traversing the entire continental United States over the course of days as the public helplessly looked on, President Trump was issuing crisp presidential orders, almost as if he were still president. Image: Donald Trump / Truth Social He...
02.05.2023 Americanthinker.comLady Jayne Seymour Fonda was born in 1937 and was also raised to believe that weight management was a paramount concern for a young woman. As a teenager, she and her boarding school friends sent away ...
02.03.2023 Lithub.com and 2 sitesIn June 1970, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released the protest anthem Ohio . Recorded on May 21 that year, the song documents Neil Young ’s outrage at the killing of four students by National Guardsm...
02.02.2023 Loudersound.com“Why do we have cycles? . . . If the stock market was a machine, it might be reasonable to expect consistent performance. ” Howard Marks, co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management When Covid-19 first s...
02.06.2023 Civilsociety.co.ukTom Wolfe has released a new sound bank for the Pigments software synthesizer instrument by Arturia. Focusing on dirty, industrial cinematic atmosphere, Rust features 50. . . The post Tom Wolfe launch...
02.08.2023 Zicos.comOne of the real pleasures of assembling our 90th Anniversary Issue was combing through the archives to see what Kirkus Reviews had to say about the classics as well as some lesser-known books. You’ll find excerpts from those archival nonfiction revie...
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