English scholar Sowon Park leads a discussion with Marco Caracciolo of Ghent University in Belgium, who argues that literary narrative has an important role to play in cultivating readers’ ability to live with uncertainty.
Trained in ballet and modern dance, the Israel native leads her company of seven dancers and four musicians in a performance set to a mix of early 20th century romantic music and popular Afro-Brazilian rhythms.
Before record turnout in Georgia helped Joe Biden beat Donald Trump and the Democrats win the narrowest majority in the Senate, Black women in the state had been working tirelessly to expand voting rights for decades.
The Burbank mother knew her high school senior would have a tough time competing for a freshman seat at a University of California campus in a year of record-shattering applications — more than 200,000 students were vying for about 46,000 spots. Still, she thought her daughter — with a 4.3 GPA, eight AP and honors courses and a host of extracurricular activities — would have a shot.
It’s late afternoon, late pandemic, and I’m watching a new nature documentary in bed, after taking the daintiest of hits from a weed pen. The show is called A Perfect Planet, and it is narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
