FictionReviewAlan Warner salutes a great writer who should have won the PulitzerHurrah. Some have started to say that Denis Johnson might be one of America's greatest fiction writers. This should have been obvious in 1986, with his third novel, The Stars at Noon – and it was certainly confirmed by the linked short story collection, Jesus' Son, in 1992.
There is something discomfiting about Johnson's work, for middlebrow lit shits. Perhaps it's a puritanical reaction to the author's own biography: his promising youth, lost in fearsome psychic turmoil; his reluctance to play the contemporary games of interview and Twitter, where author comes before work.
Women's rights and gender equality This article is more than 3 years old'She can't say no': the Ugandan men demanding to be breastfedThis article is more than 3 years oldA study is looking into the coercive practice in Uganda, amid calls for the government to address the issue Jane’s* husband likes breast milk. “He says he likes the taste of it, and that it helps him in terms of his health.
Tired and emotional … a detail from Albert Hurter’s concept drawings for Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Photograph: BonhamsTired and emotional … a detail from Albert Hurter’s concept drawings for Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Photograph: BonhamsWalt Disney Company This article is more than 7 years oldBurpy, baldy, deafy … auctioned artwork reveals rejected Snow White dwarvesThis article is more than 7 years oldBonhams sketches flesh out 16 potentially offensive characters that didn’t make the cut for the final seven in classic Disney animation
Fox NewsNetwork and former star remain at loggerheads in wake of surprise dismissal – is there a resolution in sight?
How did it come to this? Fox News and its longtime prime-time star at loggerheads as Tucker Carlson broadcasts on Twitter from a barn in Maine while the network that fired him demands he cease and desist.
“We’re at the two-month mark since Carlson’s last show, which he didn’t know was his last show.
I discovered …EnvironmentI realised other ancient trees could have survived, right under our noses. In France, they discovered one tree that had started growing before the Romans left
I’ll be 75 in March, and we old people often reflect on why certain things happened in our lives. This is very personal, but I was tall and skinny as a kid – I was always the one who was beaten up at school.