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Each of the five Patrick Melrose novels, by Edward St. Aubyn, has the weight of a prose poem, the span of a novella, and the structure of a vignette. St. Aubyn’s superbly controlled prose extracts elegance from the narrative malformations…
In an episode of his Netflix show, “Ugly Delicious,” the Korean-American chef David Chang goes head to head in a mock debate with the Italian-American chef Mario Carbone, of the restaurant empire Major Food Group. The issue in question: Asian…
India, in an attempt to tap into the next big advances in computing technology, has forayed into the theoretical as well as the experimental aspects of quantum computing. In a global conference on the subject in Bengaluru, physicists from across…
The California Energy Commission voted this week to require that new homes be built with rooftop solar panels, a measure with an obvious environmental rationale that critics in the homebuilding industry argue will add nearly $10,000 to the cost of…
Russia has opened a criminal inquiry into confessions by Alexander Vinnik, a Russian national held in a Greek jail at a US request related to money-laundering charges, a source privy to the matter told Sputnik. “Vinnik wrote several confession letters…
US President Donald Trump said Thursday night he had not paid money to North Korea to secure the release of three Korean-Americans held in labor camps there. “Kim Jong-un did a great service to himself and to his country by doing this. But…
