From the politics of food to the origin of time, the war on Ukraine to the realities of crime fiction February 6 2023 Patti Waldmeir America’s library wars are heating up Requests to ban books in the US rose to record highs in the pandemic ...
the taboo of menstruation in Nepal, the infected blood scandal in the UK and a controversial plasma clinic in Canada. There are also more positive stories about pioneers such as Oxford scientist Dame Janet Vaughan who set up the world’s first mass blood donation system during the Second World...
The film adaptation of the book of the same name — which is considered one of the most important works of Mexican and Latin American literature — hits Netflix this week. After his mother’s death, Juan Preciado returns to the village where he was born in search of his father. It’s ...
George‘s global tour includes HIV education in South Africa, the taboo of menstruation in Nepal, the infected blood scandal in the UK and a controversial plasma clinic in Canada. There are also more positive stories about pioneers such as Oxford scientist Dame Janet Vaughan who set up the ...
I couldn’t count the names of Pokémon characters I know on one hand, and I didn’t go into this movie as a fan. Yet, I found Rob Letterman’s film to be an engaging fantasy-mystery, and Reynolds’ performance to be a breezy and grounding element in a film entirely set in a lore...
And my brain provided the answers; one was a big-game hunter in the Alan Quartermain mode. The other … was a vampire. A bloodsucking member of the un-dead. And they were not just fighting atopanyold train; they’re fighting atop The Orient Express as it hurtled along ice-covered tr...
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive — RL Stevenson: a blog on books, films, art, music, culture
While Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey got some of the worst reviews of 2023 — and made ScreenCrush’s list of the worst movies of the year— it got an enormous amount of publicity, generated a surprising amount of money at the box office, and helped launch a whole wave of similar ...
Nine Pints by Rose George is a non-fiction about “the mysterious, miraculous world of blood”. The title refers to the approximate amount of blood we have in our bodies, and George explores various blood-related topics across nine chapters covering disease, cultural attitudes and medical breakth...