The book is a collection of artwork, stories, essays, and poems contributed by people from the area who are considered to be in the “margins” of life.
A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
Billie Eilish is so sick of talking about her Oscar-winning "Barbie" song. The singer, who co-wrote “What Was I Made For?” with brother-collaborator Finneas for Greta Gerwig's movie, finally has time to talk about how tiring it was to promote the song and attend all those awards ceremonies. “Bro, nobody can get enough of me,” she told Rolling Stone. “Every second of every day is Barbie, Barbie, Barbie, Barbie, Barbie, which is great, but as soon as the Oscars are over and I lose, I’m going the...
This multigenerational tale travels from China to New York in search of the true meaning of good fortuneIt’s often said that good luck is the result of good planning: you make your own. But is our luck in life ever entirely under our control? And how much luck, and planning, might be enough? Real Americans, Rachel Khong’s second novel, strikes directly at the heart of these questions. Its Chinese-American characters are brought into contact with fabulous wealth – a prototypical stroke of luck....
It's been nearly a month since New York City police officer Jonathan Diller's funeral, the first NYC cop to lose his life in the line of duty in two years. America knows the names of the few bad cops in America who abuse their power. But they need to know the names of the good cops too, especially those who gave their lives protecting us from the evil and peril around us. Which is why Americans need to know the story of Jonathan Diller. Not just how he died but how he lived.Diller, who joined...
My grandmother told me about the missing notebook. It had a blue cover, she said, and was unmarked except for “cuaderno de trabajo" written in the italicized superscript taught in elementary schools around Mexico. Kept by my grandfather when he labored on farms and orchards in the United States, the notebook recorded where he had worked, how much money he earned and — most important — where that money went. The problem, my grandmother said, was that the “notebook of work” probably had been...
On April 18, Orlando Bloom — he of Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Black Hawk Down and other action-packed films — will return to our screens not to battle orcs, buccaneers or soldiers, but to face his biggest challenge yet: himself. In Orlando Bloom: To the Edge, the 47-year-old promises to peel back actorly artifice and reveal a side of himself we’ve never seen. What’s the show about? Well, as Hunter S. Thompson famously wrote: “The Edge There is no honest way to explain it...
The AHS finale lets Anna “have it all” but also implies that women can’t have a career and a family without selling themselves in the process.
In his new Peacock series Orlando Bloom: To the Edge, the actor Orlando Bloom scales a 400-foot crag, freedives 100 feet on one breath, and jumps out of a plane at 13,000 feet to try wingsuiting for the first time. His wellness practices, as he tells GQ, have involved a similar amount of gutsiness: getting dosed with frog poison, embarking on a fast that involves eating bentonite clay. More than 20 years after Bloom was first introduced to audiences worldwide as the platinum blond elf Legolas in...
He joined rebel convoys in Africa and turned his time with GIs in Afghanistan into an Oscar-nominated film. But his subject wasn’t war – it was people. Ahead of a major show, our writer remembers his former colleagueTim Hetherington used to get so hung up about time. This was his issue on every photography assignment, his main bone of contention: how much time did he have? He could never understand why a writer was allowed a full hour with a subject while the photographer had to shoot around the...
In 2007 Zack Snyder helmed the dark and gritty action movie 300, which saw ancient Greece thrown into a bloody war against Persia. In the thriller movie, Gerard Butler takes charge as the Spartan King Leonidas, who defies the words of The Oracle and leads 300 warriors into battle against one of the largest armies in the world. But, with fantastical elements sprinkled throughout the flick, you may be wondering if this 'historical film' is actually based on a true story? Spoiler alert–...
Alua Arthur helps people plan for death. A big part of her work is helping them reconcile the lives they lived with the lives they might have wanted. Her memoir is called Briefly Perfectly Human.