- The Selling Gets Serious Want this in your inbox each morning? Sign up here. “Brutal virus selling” is a blunt but effective way to describe the market rout over the past six trading days. Asian and European markets are down again today, and U.S. futures suggest that stocks on …
- 52 Books for 52 Places The Times’s 52 places to go in 2020 spans the globe, from Washington, D.C., to Mount Kenya to Sabah, Malaysia. Maybe you’re already buying your plane tickets, or maybe you can’t get away anytime soon — but either way, we recommend the books below, which …
- Amazon, Libraries, and Pollan's 'Only From Audible Caffeine’ Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World Written and narrated by Michael Pollan. 2 hrs and 2 minutes. This is not a review of Michael Pollan's new Audible Only work How Caffeine Created the Modern World. If I were to review the audio program, I…
- Tennessee lawmakers advance measure to recognize CNN, Washington Post as 'fake news' outlets Tennessee legislators advanced an effort Wednesday to officially recognize both The Washington Post and CNN as being “fake news and part of the media wing of the Democratic Party.” Members of the Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee of the Tennessee …
- Book review: House of Glass by Hadley Freeman Hadley Freeman didn’t attend the funeral of her paternal grandmother, Sala — who died when she was 16 — in spite of loving her. She had avoided her grandmother when she was alive, recoiling from her neediness, and her dying didn’t immediately change how …
- Book review: Apocalypse How? Technology and the Threat of Disaster by Oliver Letwin There have been many dystopian portrayals of what might happen if machines are used to control our lives. But this entertaining and insightful book by Sir Oliver Letwin, the former Tory MP whose long Commons career ended last year, focuses instead on the …
- Book review: ‘Prairie Lotus’ reimagines ‘Little House’ world through eyes of a Chinese girl Like countless American girls, Linda Sue Park devoured the “Little House” novels of Laura Ingalls Wilder, re-reading them and imagining herself in the stories as a friend of young Laura. But as she grew up, Park was troubled by the way those stories …
- Highlands Book Review Club to mark 80 years Once upon a time a group of Highlands ladies got together and decided to start a book review club. This was on March 9, 1940. The first officers were President Mrs. F. P Noland, Vice President B. P. Hopper, Secretary Mrs. Z. V. Warren, Treasurer Mrs. C. R …
- Comic Reviews: Jean Grey and Emma Frost, New Mutants Hello and welcome to 411mania’s weekly Comic Book Review! Each week we’ll be serving up a warm dish of reviews (and previews) from Marvel, DC, and anything else that captures our interest. What did you pick up this week? Let us know in the comments.Want to …
- Dream Notes "Dream Notes is an unvarnished, as-is selection of Adorno's writings concerning his dreams, spanning the final twenty-five years of his life. No attempts are made to "interpret" Adorno's dreams, or force a connection between them and …
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