Rafael Leonardo Black, a self-trained artist who spent more than 40 years creating elaborate pictorial mythologies steeped in art history and popular culture, and who had his first New York gallery show at 64, died on May 15 in Brooklyn. He was 71. The […]
By Dola de Jong To describe as doomed a love that begins in 1938 between two European women is to risk tautology. Yet the problems that dog Bea and Erica in Dola de Jong’s novel “The Tree and the Vine” are too personal to […]
Koalas on the site of the planned Shenhua Watermark coalmine in New South Wales are heading towards localised extinction “even before the mine commences”, according to company documents. Meeting minutes for the mine’s koala technical working group say there has been a steep drop in […]
(CNN) Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff in the 1973 US Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, says in a new documentary that she became an anti-abortion activist because she was being paid. The documentary “AKA Jane Roe” is set to premiere Friday on FX and gives viewers […]
The Kingdom of Liars (Gollancz, £16.99) is Canadian author Nick Martell’s impressive and highly ambitious epic fantasy debut. While awaiting trial for regicide, con artist Michael Kingman tells the tense, convoluted story of how he found himself imprisoned and how, a decade before the novel opens, […]
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