Lacuna

Helen Shaw reviews a new play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Alina Troyano, at Soho Rep, and, at the Public, a revival from Elevator Repair Service, based on "The Great Gatsby," starring Scott Shepherd.

President Joe Biden has proposed an excise tax on cryptocurrency mining companies that is 30% of the cost of the power they use. Biden's Fiscal Year 2024 budget included a proposal to implement wash sale rules for crypto assets in order to close tax loopholes. The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has proposed an […]

Competency-based medical education in India: A work in progress

As long time readers know, I spent most of my 20s training to be a historian. In fact it was what I was certain I wanted to do since High School.

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 08 (IPS) - The internet and digital technology have allowed children and young people to connect, exchange knowledge and information, and truly turn the world into a global village.

Karen Russell's Dust Bowl novel effortlessly weaves in characters including a prairie witch that is the keeper of the town's secrets and an androgynous WPA photographer named Cleo.

Lizzie Feidelson on the book "Dolls of Our Lives," about millennials' and Gen Z-ers' ongoing interest in American Girl dolls.

His new novel, The Women I Love, asks if men can accurately portray and represent the experiences of women.

Earlier this year, Kathryn Schulz picked up "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History," a new biography by Benjamin Balint about a brilliant artist murdered by the Nazis in 1942. In it, she found connections to her own family history and stories with a life far beyond her own.

Doreen St. Félix writes about the Republican primary debates of 2023, and about Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, and other candidates.

Graphic videos of the last hours of 10-year-old Fatima Furiro have highlighted once again the abuse faced by child workers

Katy Waldman reviews Dorothy Tse's dreamlike début novel, "Owlish," in which a lonely professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina.

"A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs," by Gulchehra Hoja; "I Am Still with You," by Emmanuel Iduma; "Biography of X," by Catherine Lacey; and "Users," by Colin Winnette.

Tomb-raiding in the late New Kingdom.

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32647313 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

Can we deploy creative practices to critically address the fatal interlocking of global surveillance technologies, neocolonial expansionism, environmental degradation, and the lethal threat of drone warfare?

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictionary_of_Obscure_Sorrows Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30476541 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

A brief overview of the roots of Western Maoism from 1978.

Europe's top rights court on Tuesday said Switzerland was not doing enough to tackle climate change in a historic decision that could force governments to adopt more ambitious climate policies.

"Plus an old anti-art text by David Wise along with perhaps the last text by Loren Goldner who was and is a sorely missed fellow-traveller cum companion.........." Originally published 2020 on the Revolt Against Plenty website.