The New Yorker3h
What We Learn About Our World by Imagining Its End
Some fear we’ll be buried in brimstone; others expect to be extinguished by A.I. But is there comfort to be found in our ...
Maha Kumbh Mela 2025: Laurene Powell Jobs's Flight At Prayagraj Airport Was Historic For THIS Reason
In the ongoing Maha Kumbh Mela 2025, several records were broken and hundreds of new were made. Amongst all of them, Apple co ...
An Oscar nominee returns to novel writing with powerful results
In his latest book, “To Save the Man,” John Sayles explores the cruelty of Native American boarding schools.
What to Read in the Face of Disaster
First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic ’s Books section: ...
‘Everything Must Go’ Review: It’s the End of the World, Again
A literary history of our fascination with apocalypse and armageddon suggests that predictions of doomsday have always been ...
It may feel like the end of the world, but that’s nothing new
In his new book “Everything Must Go,” Dorian Lynskey recounts two millennia of apocalyptic predictions. Amazingly, it’s not ...
These books circulated at Brandeis for decades. A trove of Holocaust history was hidden in the pages.
As the final generation of Holocaust survivors passes on, the books will remain as "material survivors, as witnesses." ...
The Dalai Lama Shares Thoughts on China and the Future in a New Book
The spiritual leader of Tibet has published amply but seldom written in depth about politics. Now, as he approaches 90, he ...
Nobody Writes About Violence Like Han Kang
We Do Not Part is the very best kind of story-telling, poetic and ambiguous without ever shying away from horrible historic ...
The Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine was surrounded by flames. Then a family came to its rescue
For 75 years, the property has welcomed visitors seeking peace and solace to its grounds. As the Palisades fire raged around ...
Post and Courier15d
Review: ‘Those Opulent Days’ a mystery drenched in cruelties of colonial French Indochina
THOSE OPULENT DAYS: A Mystery. By Jacquie Pham. Atlantic Monthly Press. 304 pages. $27. It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in ...
The Times of Israel16d
The Torah of the Current Messiah – XVIII
The atmosphere was good and one week after the book launch, we organized a gathering in the Unitarian Church which was well attended. The next day after the book launch, I received a call from the ...