She’s sold 35 million books, tamed literary snobs, and has a major Netflix adaptation in the works. As her 16th novel ‘My Favourite Mistake’ is released, Irish author Marian Keyes tells Jessie Thompson about putting everything from menopause to alcoholism on the page
Perhaps the author of a recent letter understands how Donald Trump’s attorney general, Bill Barr, put his finger on the scales of justice numerous times and that Trump has promised to do so if reelected, since he believes that’s what presidents do (“Biden is a dictator using agencies to ruin Trump,” Star-Advertiser, April 16). Of course, he laughingly denies Trump ever did it. See the Mueller report or Michael Cohen or Geoffrey Berman as proof of the fact.
Humanity is at war with its very existence. Nothing has come from this war in Gaza except to expose the naked aggression, violence and lunacy of governments. It’s a world where arms are sent by the U.S. to one group to kill, and to another embroiled in that same conflict — aid and monies for rescue from the very bombs of mass destruction sent earlier.
Knocking on wood is a common superstitious practice deeply rooted in Egyptian culture, and many others around the world, holding different meanings. The act of knocking on wood, or wooden objects, is typically used to ward off any sort of ‘bad luck’. When a positive event occurs, Egyptians have superstitiously knocked on wood to repent the envious eye. Some attribute the tradition to ancient Egyptians, as they used to hold the Sycamore tree to special significance, and considered it sacred,...
To the editor: Earth's increasing temperature is relentless, going ever higher, year after year, bringing us problems so large they require us to change the way we live. ("And the heat keeps coming: Global temperature record broken for 10th month in a row in March," April 10) Melting ice, rising sea levels, unstable jet streams, extreme weather, record fires, record floods, acid oceans and desperate migrants. It means we have to give up our beloved fossil fuels, our air travel to Hawaii and our...
Out of descriptors that fit Gustaf Westman’s designs — colorful, bubbly, soft, squiggly, curly — one word that doesn’t come to mind is spiky.Ignoring the custo
There’s a dance-based competition show currently airing Mondays at 9 pm. New episodes land on Fox. Cat Deeley’s the host. And yet, despite those familiar trappings, or the title that runs across the screen at the start of each episode, I’m having trouble believing that the show in question is actually So You Think You […]
Fans have been in an uproar over a revelation in the Fallout TV series, but Todd Howard is here to reassure you that there was no retconning.
When it was announced that Francesca Amewudah-Rivers would be making her London West-End debut starring as Juliet alongside Hollywood actor Tom Holland as Romeo, it should have been a celebratory moment. Instead, the young actor — who has already starred in productions of Othello, Macbeth as well as a BBC drama — was faced with a heartbreaking, but all too familiar, sequence of events in which she received thousands of racist and misogynistic comments online. The social media harassment got...
A SELF-PROCLAIMED hippie made the bold decision to grow out her armpit hair after taking up a nomadic lifestyle. Mya Loftus took the leap into hairy life after deciding she spent too much time, eff
The former “GMA 3” host explained that he feels anxious “that something is going to happen” to his girlfriend when they’re not together.
Some 5,000 people who live in El Chaparral, Mijas, have been told not to drink the tap water as there is a “presence of higher values of trihalomethanes”, according to the analysis of the Junta de Andalucía. Trihalomethanes are a byproduct of the water treatment process. They are formed when natural organic material, such as […]