Picture the scene: a woman goes to a railway track, determined to self-harm. Eventually, after negotiation with police officers, she resists the urge to hurt herself and leaves the scene. Relief all...
The moment that at first seemed a laughable parody, then seemed a terrifying possibility, then appeared to be a horrific inevitability, is finally here: Donald Trump has taken the Republican...
I first met Danish director Andreas Koefoed remotely when I programmed his nonfiction tale of international intrigue The Arms Drop at the 2015 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Later I had the...
Settle in for some good longreads on this Monday morning — because we've got some doozies (along with some shorter features for those of you on the go). As always, we're interested to hear what...
In junior secondary school, one of my teachers used the following example to illustrate the difference between potential and kinetic energy: potential energy is the energy a ball possesses when...
Human sexual behaviour is an astonishingly complex topic. In patriarchal societies such as ours, messages of sexual virility are connected to the ‘fitness’ of persons to lead institutions...
Pope Francis has just issued a new synod, Amoris Laetitia — “The Joy of Love.” Francis had been expected to make a proclamation on the status of marriage and relationships in the church, with...
What better movie is there than Kent Jones’s Hitchcock/Truffaut documentary to prematurely break my sabbatical from film criticism? Truffaut’s 1962 in depth interviews with Hitchcock took over...
We're reading all kinds of things today, and the best way to start your week off right is with a round of reading recommendations to dip into. And hey, as long as we're showing you ours...why not...
Highly successful and bestselling recording artist, guitarist, and gender-bending fashion icon Prince died yesterday at his Paisley Park recording studio complex, in his hometown of Chanhassen,...
