The president’s Cabinet members are taking their workout and recovery routines very seriously.

“How can I know what I think, until I see what I say?” (E. M. Forster). How much of your writing surprises you? Forster’s line rings true. Writing is a technology for thinking. I’m constantly amazed by how often I come up with new ideas in the process of constructing sentences. Writing is much more […]

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As I was born in England almost seventy-five years ago, I may be a victim of romanticized school narratives of our “island story”. So I was surprised by three sentences in Pratinav Anil’s review of Nigel Biggar’s Reparations and The Big Payback by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder (January 23). To quote: “The abolition of […]

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Here’s a round number to celebrate: Poems on the Underground was launched forty years ago. “Up in the Morning Early” by Robert Burns, “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, “This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams, “The Railway Children” by Seamus Heaney and “Like a Beacon” by Grace Nichols: from February 1, 1986, this […]

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According to Kevin O’Hare, director of the Royal Ballet, the dance world is currently in a “lucky” period, with fewer rigid boundaries between genres. “It all kind of melds a little bit, but not in a bad way”, he says, speaking on a call from the Royal Opera House. “There don’t seem to be barriers […]

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In an essay written in 1949, Jorge Luis Borges declared that the allegory was “an aesthetic error”. He confessed that his first impulse had been to write “nothing but an error of Aesthetics”, before realizing that the sentence itself contained an allegory. Literature, Borges believed, tends to correct itself, transforming the general into the individual, […]

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A video circulating online captured a security worker with the city of West Hollywood punching and attacking a homeless man. The altercation occurred on Feb. 15 at West Hollywood Park on San Vicente Boulevard near Santa Monica Boulevard. The video, which was posted on NextDoor, shows the man punching the victim in the head from […]

Four people, including two police officers and a firefighter, were taken to the hospital after a collision involving an ambulance in Los Angeles’ Westchester neighborhood Wednesday night. The crash, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department, was reported just after 9 p.m. at the intersection of Manchester Avenue and Sepulveda Westway. Details are limited and it’s unclear exactly what […]

Police confirmed the man who was fatally shot outside the Westfield Culver City mall was a suspect attempting a robbery. The incident occurred on Feb. 13 as Culver City police responded to a shooting on the 6000 block of Sepulveda Boulevard just before 7:30 p.m. Based on evidence gathered, detectives determined the incident was a […]

Los Angeles police are in pursuit of a shooting suspect Wednesday afternoon. They’re currently in the Hawthorne area. Sky5 was over the scene at 3:45 p.m. No further information has been provided on what led up to the chase. This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.