World of fantasy: Death's Master by Tanith Lee | Books

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1116 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Alison Flood's world of fantasyBooksWorld of fantasy: Death's Master by Tanith LeeStanding out as the only woman ever to win a British Fantasy award, Lee has many other unique accomplishments to her nameI have a soft spot for Tanith Lee. When I was about 10, I was given a book token for my birthday and I remember standing in Smith's, eyes wide, unable to choose between the rich treasures before me (yes, it was Smith's, and it seems a bit mad now, but I was only little). [Read More]

Yankees and Red Sox brawl at Fenway after New York player gets hit by pitch | MLB

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  699 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

MLBYankees and Red Sox brawl at Fenway after New York player gets hit by pitchNewest chapter of famed rivalry kicks off with bench-clearing brawlYankees snap Boston’s nine-game winning streak with 10-7 victoryThe fuse has officially been lit in the newest chapter of the ramped-up Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. Zim v Pedro. A-Rod v Varitek. Munson v Fisk. And now, Tyler Austin tangling with Joe Kelly. In a matchup between clubs that have long clashed, Austin rushed the mound after being hit by a pitch from the Red Sox reliever, triggering a bench-clearing brawl Wednesday night as New York ended Boston’s nine-game winning streak with a 10-7 victory. [Read More]

All aboard: get the nautical look for men in pictures | Fashion

 Posted on June 6, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  303 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

All aboard: get the nautical look for men – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Menswear has long looked to the sea for practical fashion inspiration, from fisherman jumpers to Breton stripes. So what’s the best way to dip in, without going full ‘shipster’? Helen Seamons Main image: Make a splash Sat 12 Jun 2021 18. [Read More]

Fargo review black humour, white landscapes, it's brilliant and beautiful

 Posted on June 6, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  824 words  |  Aldo Pusey

TV reviewFargoReviewThe second season of the Coen brothers TV spin-off gets underway with cocaine-fuelled homicide, car crashes and Ted Danson Season two of Fargo (Channel 4) opens on the set of Massacre at Sioux Falls, starring Ronald Reagan and Betty LaPlage. Or, put another way, with a real (though unseen) historical character with a made-up co-star in a made-up film in a television series that purports to be based on real events and real characters but isn’t and that is itself based on a film that does the same. [Read More]

Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower review

 Posted on June 6, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  673 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

The ObserverHistory booksReviewWendy Lower's account of the women who volunteered to work for Hitler in the new German empire to the east is truly chillingWhere did the best career opportunities lie for an ambitious young woman in Germany in 1941? In the Red Cross? The army? Or, perhaps, the Gestapo – which, by the end of the war, was 40% staffed by women? No, the best prospects probably lay in the Ostraum, the new German empire to the east, in occupied Poland and then Ukraine and Belarus, where 10,000 secretaries were needed, plus countless teachers and nurses. [Read More]

Liberia fuel tanker explosion kills at least 40 | Liberia

 Posted on June 6, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  446 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

LiberiaLiberia fuel tanker explosion kills at least 40 Witnesses say people climbed on to vehicle to gather petrol after tanker overturned on roadside More than 40 people have been killed and dozens badly burned when a petrol tanker exploded in central Liberia, the country’s chief medical officer has said. Witnesses said people clambered on to the lorry to try collect petrol leaking from its tank after it crashed and tipped into a ditch along a road in Totota, about 130 kilometres (80 miles) from the capital Monrovia on Tuesday. [Read More]

One in five ballerinas at La Scala is anorexic, leading dancer claims | Italy

 Posted on June 6, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  871 words  |  Valentine Belue

The ObserverItalyOne in five ballerinas at La Scala is anorexic, leading dancer claimsStar tells how pressure to achieve physical perfection has left 'many' of her former colleagues unable to become mothersOn the eve of the new season at Milan's La Scala, one of the ballet company's leading lights has dramatically revealed the extent of bulimia and anorexia among ballerinas. Breaking an unspoken rule never to discuss eating disorders among Italy's elite dance corps, Mariafrancesca Garritano told the Observer that one in five ballerinas that she knew was anorexic and, as a result, many were now unable to have children. [Read More]

Poem of the week: Homage to the Square by Tishani Doshi

 Posted on June 6, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  913 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Carol Rumens's poem of the weekPoetryThis spiralling meditation inspired by the artist Josef Albers has a quietly political thrust Homage to the Square “I still like to believe that the square is a human invention. And that tickles me. So when I have a preference for it then I can only say excuse me” Josef Albers You loved the squareness of square, the hardness of it, its resistance to symbolism. [Read More]

Seized hoard of Nazi artefacts to go on display at Argentina Holocaust museum | Argentina

 Posted on June 6, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  532 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Argentina This article is more than 4 years oldSeized hoard of Nazi artefacts to go on display at Argentina Holocaust museumThis article is more than 4 years oldMemorabilia to feature at Buenos Aires Holocaust MuseumObjects include bust of Hitler and a Nazi Ouija boardBusts of Adolf Hitler, a Ouija board inscribed with Nazi symbols and other relics from a hoard found in a collector’s secret hiding place will go on display at the Holocaust Museum in Argentina, where many high-ranking Nazis fled after the end of the second world war. [Read More]

Tenants by Vicky Spratt review empty rooms and empty promises

 Posted on June 6, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1213 words  |  Valentine Belue

Book of the daySociety booksReviewThis astute analysis examines the toxic lottery of Britain’s housing crisis and the devastating outcomes of having no fixed abode If the government of one of the richest countries in the world can’t adequately house the people who live in it, then what exactly is its point? The journalist Vicky Spratt doesn’t make this case directly in her first book, but she does lay bare our state’s lack of fitness for purpose in its current condition, showing how scarce, unsafe, cramped, unaffordable and, above all, insecure housing lies at the root of Britain’s ongoing public health crisis. [Read More]