Category: English
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Feel like you can’t get a job? You’re not alone — but here’s how to work around it
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jason Walker, Program Director & Associate Professor Master of Psychology Health and Wellness & Master of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Adler University You did everything they told you to do. You earned the credentials, spent hours on your resume and revised multiple cover letters. You worked side gigs,…
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Under Ron DeSantis’ leadership, Florida leads the nation in executions in 2025
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College Florida has executed 15 prisoners in 2025 so far, with two more executions scheduled for November. MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images After years of steady decline in the number of people executed…
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David Szalay’s Flesh wins the Booker prize – a deeply affecting novel about masculinity
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tory Young, Associate Professor in Department of English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University Canadian-born, Hungarian-British writer David Szalay has won the Booker prize for his novel, Flesh. It follows the eventful life of one Hungarian, István, from his teen years to middle age. The novel begins when…
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Jane Austen perfected the love story – but kept her own independence
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Anna Walker, Senior Arts + Culture Editor, The Conversation Jane Austen’s Paper Trail is a podcast from The Conversation celebrating 250 years since Jane Austen’s birth. In each episode, we’ll be investigating a different aspect of Austen’s personality by interrogating one of her novels with leading…
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Prince William: We told the kids everything about Kate’s cancer
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand Prince William says it was a “balancing act” for himself and his wife to share details of the family’s recent health challenges, including Catherine’s and King Charles’s cancer diagnoses. In a rare and candid interview in Brazil, the prince said that “hiding stuff from them doesn’t work”. He was…
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Review: Booker Prize winner, Flesh, ‘baffling in its blankness’
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand This year’s winner of the Booker Prize, Flesh by David Szalay, will divide your book club. It has already divided early readers. Now, after claiming one of the biggest literary prizes in the English-speaking world, it will split a new section of readers. The division was there in the…
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Israeli hostage on his near 500-day ordeal: ‘Every morning I choose life’
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand On 7 October 2023, Eli Sharabi was kidnapped by Hamas and held for 491 days. He and his wife Lianne and two teenage daughters Noiya and Yahel were in their home on a kibbutz in Southern Israel when the attack happened. When Sharabi and his wife realised he was…
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Hungarian British author David Szalay wins Booker Prize for his novel ‘Flesh’
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand Hungarian British author David Szalay has won the prestigious Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (NZ$116,713), for his dark but strangely humorous book, Flesh. The novel charts the life of the taciturn loner István, living in a housing estate in Hungary. His life is shaped by the affair he has as…
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Electric fields steered nanoparticles through a liquid-filled maze – this new method could improve drug delivery and purification systems
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Daniel K. Schwartz, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder Nanoparticles move through materials like tiny cars through a maze. OsakaWayne Studios/Moment via Getty Images In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic…
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Nine to Noon exclusive: Israeli hostage describes his near 500-day ordeal, and why he doesn’t hate his captors
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand Eli Sharabi was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 , 2023 and held captive for 491 days. Photo: Blake Ezra On October 7th 2023, Eli Sharabi was kidnapped by Hamas and held for 491 days. He and his wife and two daughters were in their home on a…