Alessandro Gallenzi’s revelation of Dylan Thomas’s juvenile plagiarisms (Commentary, January 9) won’t come as much of a shock to the academic community. His efforts as a plagiarist began early. According to Andrew Lycett’s biography (Dylan Thomas: A new Life, 2003), Dylan stood up in school one day, aged seven, and recited what he called “My […]

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Some readers may be aware of the Observer’s literary scoop last summer: Chloe Hadjimatheou’s exposé, that is, about The Salt Path by Raynor Winn. Published in 2018, this memoir tells a tale of homelessness and a walk along the South West Coast Path, with the walk becoming a miracle cure for Winn’s husband’s terminal illness. […]

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What, if anything, can stop Donald Trump? Not international law, as the President made clear in a recent New York Times interview, the week he declared Venezuela a wholly owned subsidiary, and began measuring Greenland for drapes. Nor does American law seem to have any hold over the executive will. But Trump admitted one limit […]

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History can turn on a style of painting. Paintings can also be emissaries from one age to the next, clues in the puzzle of life, endlessly in need of decoding. Art historians might dream of writing like great historians and prose stylists, but in truth, as Nirad Das, the Indian painter in Tom Stoppard’s play […]

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A man is in custody after a high-speed police pursuit in Orange County that ended in a multi-vehicle crash that left at least one innocent person dead and an unknown number of victims injured. Details are limited and officials with the Anaheim Police Department have not yet said why they were pursuing the driver before the deadly […]

New details are emerging in the arrest of an off-duty Glendale firefighter in connection with the brutal beating death of his wife, allegedly with an axe. The victim, identified by family members as Mayra Jimenez, was described by friends as a “caring educator” who was a union representative with United Teachers Los Angeles. A member of the union, who attended the couple’s 2014 wedding, confirmed that she taught at […]

Four members of a burglary crew pleaded guilty to their roles in a $3 million jewelry store heist in Ventura County. The crew members, all Chilean nationals, were identified by the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office as: The group pleaded guilty to burglarizing a jewelry store and a coffee shop in Simi Valley in late […]

A resident in the Crescenta Valley city of Tujunga is warning neighbors about an attempted home invasion by a man reportedly armed with a knife and gun that was scared away by the family dog. The incident, according to home surveillance footage obtained by KTLA, occurred near the intersection of Memory Drive and Tujunga Canyon Boulevard just after 2 a.m. […]

The daughter of Los Angeles mayoral candidate Austin Beutner died earlier this month, and authorities haven’t released a cause yet. Emily Beutner, the youngest and Beutner’s only daughter, died at a hospital on Jan. 6, according to information posted on the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s website. She was 22. “My family has experienced the unimaginable loss […]

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said on Wednesday that he would reject a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security for the rest of the fiscal year over concerns that it did not sufficiently curb Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.  The announcement came in a closed-door meeting with Democratic caucus members, following continued […]