Three weeks ago, over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls were abducted from their secondary school in Borno state by the Islamist group, Boko Haram. The girls were taken at gunpoint and forced into the dark...
Three Diana Wynne Jones books have been published since the author’s death in 2011, and I have bought each and mourned a little anew. There’s something particularly final, though, about The...
As a veteran protestor in the US and abroad who started out as a pacifist and later marched with the Black Blok and other groups that argue violence is sometimes necessary in defense of our freedoms,...
Allegations of sexual impropriety, abuse and violence have been an increasingly regular part of Australian football culture over the past 10 years. By pointing this out, I don’t suggest that the...
Check out these beautiful, ocean-inspired paintings by New York artist Samantha Keely Smith. In an interview with NeverLazy Magazine, she says My images are not at all real places or even inspired...
Can anyone contend with the Coen brothers? Fargo on FX is trying to do just that, with a series based on the 1996 film of the same name. Set in the icy reaches of the Midwest, where everyone behaves...
Harold Shand is dead. We always knew it in our hearts when the future James Bond drove him off at gunpoint. We always knew it but we couldn’t quite believe. Men like Shand don’t die. They...
The United States was riveted on Tuesday by an execution gone horribly, horribly wrong in Oklahoma, a state that’s already been in the news for botched executions as well as shady sourcing for the...
Where do transatlantic beasts like Tom Hardy retreat to at night to escape the glare and glower of Hollywood? Which low budget vehicle will he squeeze into to prove his muscular acting prowess? In...
Chronic illnesses and their symptoms may be very different from one another, but if there's one thing that people who have chronic illness, pain, and/or fatigue can agree on, it's that being sick all...
