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A little more than a decade ago, I wrote an article for The New Yorker about American reading habits, which a number of studies then indicated might be in decline. I was worried about what a shift to “secondary orality”—a…
Critics and their worn-out thesauruses eventually do a number on almost every musical instrument, but the harp is perhaps the most routinely maligned by adjectives: ethereal, celestial, ghostly, spectral, delicate, feminine, angelic, soft. These are good words, and often germane,…
An Australian rugby union player allegedly assaulted by a Briton has announced his retirement from the game. Former Australia Sevens captain James Stannard, 35, suffered a head injury in an incident outside a kebab shop in Sydney in the early…
“No need to ask, you heard about us,” Beyoncé sings in her new joint album with husband Jay-Z, Everything Is Love. And it’s true, we have heard about them. We’ve heard about the intimate details of their marriage, the betrayals…
Gareth Southgate showed he was “not to be messed with” when he dropped Wayne Rooney in his second game in charge, says Danny Rose. Southgate was in caretaker charge of England when he left Rooney out of the World Cup…
2:15 Phil Mickelson incurred a two-shot penalty for opting to hit his ball while it was still moving Phil Mickelson was handed a two-shot penalty during the third round of the US Open, but should he have been punished further?…
