A couple of days ago, English writer, television presenter, and model Peaches Geldof was found dead in her home at the age of twenty-five. The cause of death is as yet unknown, but that hasn’t...
International media are abuzz with the recent news out of Australia, where Scottish-Australian Norrie sued for the right to select “non-specific” as a sex option on her (Norrie’s been...
Call the Midwife is BACK! Viewers of PBS in the United States are just starting the third series of this show, which is growing on viewers in a major way. And while the programme revolves around the...
I’ve seen Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s “The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden” twice now, the first time at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and most recently at the...
While the world watches the situation unfold in the Ukraine, and pundits argue the legitimacy of Crimea reuniting with Russia, Venice held a historic referendum. On March 21, the province of Veneto...
Pop culture juggernaut Game of Thrones is returning to the US on 7 April, and the hit HBO series will be simulcast in the UK, showing just how big its fandom has grown—and highlighting the tensions...
This week has brought a halt to a human rights inquiry concerning the detention centre on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island, one of the off-shore facilities in which asylum seekers to Australia are...
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have announced the nominee list for the annual Nebula Awards, and, as usual, it’s got some strong points of interest. There’s an...
Observant Muslimah Samah Aidah, a high school student in Colorado, wears her hijab or head covering as a component of her religious faith wherever she goes in public, like many other Muslim women....
Has Scarlett Johansson ever felt at ease in her own skin? That fashionable, gawky frame, part siren, part nerd, those lips propelling her clipped New York accent so considered and efficient. Like all...
