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This Week in Fiction: David Means on Stories of Homelessness

The New Yorker 

Your story in this week’s issue, “Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother,” consists of two separate narratives. One is about an old homeless man, who is seen rummaging through garbage cans on a street; the other is about a man visiting his brother, a temporary inpatient at an addiction center. Did you know from the outset the form the story would take?

Would we let Dem Bums go again?

«New York Daily News» 

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Brooklyn — and New York — losing the Dodgers to Los Angeles.

The Robot Will See You Now – AI and Health Care

WIRED 

Artificial intelligence is now detecting cancer and robots are doing nursing tasks. But are there risks to handing over elements of our health to machines, no matter how sophisticated?



Softwood lumber decision Tuesday is Trump's next chance to hammer Canada

CBC 

Donald Trump's attack on Canada's softwood lumber industry last week was pretty vague. But this trade dispute is about to get very specific: the U.S. Department of Commerce will release its decision Tuesday on potentially damaging countervailing duties on Canadian imports.

The Book That Scandalized the New York Intellectuals

The New Yorker 

He should have known the book was loaded. Norman Podhoretz started writing “Making It” in 1964. He was thirty-four years old and the editor of Commentary. His idea was to write a book about how people in his world, literary intellectuals, were secretly motivated by a desire for success—money, power, and fame—and were also secretly ashamed of it. He offered himself as Exhibit A. By confessing to his own ambition, he would make it safe for others to confess to theirs, and thereby enjoy without guilt... Читать дальше...

Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother

The New Yorker 

Sviatoslav Richter

There’s this old man who walks along the fence next to the hospital, or, say, down near town, wobbling in his loose, flapping shoes, digging around in the garbage can on the corner, smoking a cigarette, clutching it between his battered fingers, or simply walking with his shoulders braced as if he knew he was some kind of fodder for speculation, because it seems to be so consistent, his homeless rooting, keeping to a pattern, moving south on Midland Avenue for a half... Читать дальше...

Briefly Noted

The New Yorker 

How Emotions Are Made, by Lisa Feldman Barrett (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Drawing on neuroscience and experimental psychology to overturn the assumption that emotions are innate and universal, this book describes them as “goal-based concepts” designed to help us categorize experience. Emotions, Barrett writes, are learned and shaped by culture, so “variation is the norm”: “Russian has two distinct concepts for what Americans call ‘Anger.’ German has three distinct ‘Angers’ and Mandarin has five.” Upbringing has the biggest influence... Читать дальше...

Rod Dreher’s Monastic Vision

The New Yorker 

Rod Dreher was forty-four when his little sister died. At the time, he was living in Philadelphia with his wife and children. His sister, Ruthie, lived in their Louisiana home town, outside St. Francisville (pop. 1,712). Dreher’s family had been there for generations, but he had never fit in. As a teen-ager, when his father and sister went hunting he stayed in his room and listened to the Talking Heads; he read “A Moveable Feast” and dreamed of Paris. He left as soon as he could, becoming a television... Читать дальше...

How Hollywood Remembers Steve Bannon

The New Yorker 

Stephen K. Bannon, who maintains a precarious hold over the nativist wing of the Trump White House, honed his skills in the art of conservative persuasion in the most liberal precinct of the American imagination, Hollywood. He became himself in the byways of the movie business. These days, Bannon is a dishevelled presence in the Oval Office, but he cut a different figure in Beverly Hills, where he looked the part of a Hollywood executive—fast-talking, smartly dressed, aggressively fit, carrying... Читать дальше...

Bette Midler Brings Her Best to “Hello, Dolly!”

The New Yorker 

Bette Midler is such an incredible self-creation—an artist like no other—that finding roles that can harness her enormous energy while allowing room for her wit and her extraordinary skill as a balladeer must have long been a nightmare for her agents. Early in her now more than fifty-year career, Midler did happen upon a part that tapped into her many talents. In 1979, she starred in “The Rose,” a fictional film portrait of a Janis Joplin-like singer, which moved a lot of people, not least because... Читать дальше...

Jean-Pierre Melville’s Cinema of Resistance

The New Yorker 

This is how you should attend the forthcoming retrospective of Jean-Pierre Melville movies at Film Forum: Tell nobody what you are doing. Even your loved ones—especially your loved ones—must be kept in the dark. If it comes to a choice between smoking and talking, smoke. Dress well but without ostentation. Wear a raincoat, buttoned and belted, regardless of whether there is rain. Any revolver should be kept, until you need it, in the pocket of the coat. Finally, before you leave home, put your hat on. Читать дальше...

Colombia’s Guerrillas Come Out of the Jungle

The New Yorker 

Last September, Carlos Antonio Lozada, a commander of Colombia’s FARC guerrillas, returned home to a jungle encampment in the vast wetland region called Yarí. He had spent the past two years in Havana, staying in a villa near Fidel Castro’s home, while working with other guerrilla leaders and Colombian diplomats on a peace agreement to end the FARC’s fifty-two-year insurgency—the longest in the Western Hemisphere. His time there had been gruelling: an endless succession of arguments, proposals... Читать дальше...





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