One of the most fun and difficult events in Turkey Athletics It is a steeplechase with its barriers and water obstacles that are not at all different from those in horse racing from which it takes its name. Beginning in the 18th century in Ireland, horses and riders raced from one town steeple to another …
SONGS FOR FLAMESby Juan Gabriel VasquezTranslated by Anne McLean In an author’s note “Lovers on All Saints’ Day” in the 2015 short story collection Juan Gabriel Vasquez He writes that something he once heard Tobias Wolff say guided his choice: “A storybook should be like a novel where the characters don’t know each other.” “lovers”, …
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The title of Rebecca Donner’s startling new book is a line from a volume of Goethe’s poems smuggled into the cell of Mildred Harnack, an American woman chained in a Berlin prison and awaiting the death penalty by the Nazi regime. . On February 16, 1943, the day she was to be taken to the …
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Books appear when the days get longer and the mercury starts to rise. Sunscreen-stained paperbacks are crammed into beach bags and backpacks, strewn on picnic tables, and tossed into hammock crooks. They sound like their summer blockbuster and summer song sibling: Summer reading season has arrived. Something more about these dog days than any other …
“Our core group and teams in Chicago over the last six, seven years have brought so much joy to people, not just in Chicago, but across the country and around the world,” said Rizzo. “We were an easy-to-root team that won the World Series at 16, playing and having fun. We’ll be able to think …
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TOKYO – Made by Jim Thorpe. But for the past 109 years, no American man has competed in both the high jump and long jump in the Olympics. Now JuVaughn Harrison will match this Thorpian feat and will likely win a medal or two. Like many great high school athletes, Harrison excelled at just about …
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Quarantine can be lifesaving; it can also be dangerous, an extraordinary use of force in the name of disease control, a presumption of guilt rather than innocence. In “Until It’s Safe,” a new book about the past and future of quarantine, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley impressively make sense to explain exactly why quarantine fears …
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In Augustine Frizzell’s “Last Letter to Your Love,” women have complex relationships with their pasts – in more ways than one. Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley), a socialite married to an elite British diplomat (Joe Alwyn), loses her memory after surviving a battle. Jenny is fed up with her husband’s stuffy attitude – is she supposed …
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it would be a lie – or at least an incomplete truth – to deny that part of me yearns for natural birth as a threshold for salvation. I’ve never really treated my body as an ally. I had starved myself to throttle it and spent years drinking for fainting and various other dangers. Pregnancy …