It’s risky when CEOs play politics. General Motors may learn the hard way.

Mayor Mamdani’s election has been hailed as transformative in more ways than any other election in recent history with both adherents and opponents noting its many pathbreaking aspects ranging from his clearly professed faith, his youth and his iconoclastic ideas on economic and social issues among others. Less noted is the incredible mosaic of voters from an astonishing medley of countries that propelled him into office.

“How can I know what I think, until I see what I say?” (E. M. Forster). How much of your writing surprises you? It doesn’t surprise me when I’m writing, but sometimes, years later, when I’m rereading one of my books, I wonder how I passed from this or that scene or image to the […]

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There are various reasons to be thinking about Australia at the moment. Some are tragically serious; others, being cricket-related, are simply absurd. Lost in the background, for most people, will be the horror of the modern Australian attitude to literature and learning – or the attitude in Melbourne, at least. The quarterly journal Meanjin was […]

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One of the critics who suspects that Jane Austen took the surname of Mrs Norris in Mansfield Park from Captain Robert Norris, “a hateful slave-trading author” (Devoney Looser, December 12, 2025), is John Wiltshire (see his magisterial Cambridge Edition of Mansfield Park, p. xlvi). As to Mary Bennet, now amazingly a candidate for rehabilitation, I […]

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“I wonder if my dead mother still thinks of me”– Saeed Jones the dead are standing in a mistthe sun’s a fever burning through – the living are seeing the deadand the dead are seeing the dead and the dead can see the livingand the dogs can hear their masters bones sing, bones sing Julian […]

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Let laughter empty me.Let me have my toothsome sleep.Let the ordinary be its own benediction. We’ve worked for weeksto the drumbeat of vague but important ideas,the future a lava-lamp, mesmerizing to look atbut not enough to read by. Let me sleep. Jesse Nathan’s first book of poems, Eggtooth, was published in 2023. His second, The […]

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An officer was injured during a pursuit involving four suspects in a stolen vehicle in North Hollywood Wednesday night. Los Angeles Police Department officers had been following the suspects’ car when the driver pulled over in a neighborhood on the 11100 block of Archwood Place just before 10 p.m. The suspects quickly stepped out of […]

Charles “Andy” Williams, who was 15 years old in 2001 when he opened fire inside a San Diego school, killing two students and wounding 13 other people, may soon go free. On the morning of March 5, Williams carried a black, eight-shot revolver he’d taken from his father’s locked gun cabinet into Santana High School where he was a student and let loose gunfire in the hallway, bathroom and the campus […]