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22+ min ago (305+ words) Early in Siesbye's life in Denmark, she maintained an epistolary friendship with Edip Cansever, among the foremost poets of modern Turkey. Cansever's letters to Siesbye, which were published in 2021, are moody, erotic, and playful'full of yearning and of reproach. A terrible longing takes over. Everywhere, you, all at once'and a slow anger begins. Toward whom? Toward longing, the melancholy of distances, the oppression of helplessness, toward it all' After an editor encouraged her to publish the letters,Siesbye agreed with some hesitation. They become less fervent, more brooding, around the time that she meets David. After the epistolary friendship ended, Cansever destroyed all of Siesbye's letters. And yet she also calls herself a worker. Is that, I asked her, not a contradiction? "Why should it be a contradiction? I've never called myself an artist. You need to be a really…...

22+ min ago (117+ words) Joan Silber reads her story "Safety," from the December 8, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, Silber is the author of nine books of fiction, the most recent of which are the novels "Mercy" and "Secrets of Happiness." Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

22+ min ago (460+ words) Hollywood icon Dyan Cannon is known for hit movies like Heaven Can Wait and Such Good Friends. But she is perhaps best known for her marriage to the legendary actor Cary Grant. The 88-year-old recently opened up that being a Hollywood starlet in the "70s wasn"t easy, and it was only after hitting rock bottom that she found comfort in the arms of Jesus. "I became a movie star with my name above the title. I married a man who was like the most famous man in the world. And that was all good, but it was like a band-aid," she shared on the podcast God"s Table Hollywood, which she hosts alongside Tracy Bregman, Kym Douglas-Robertson, and Christine Avanti-Fischer. During an episode where the women shared about how they came to know God, Cannon said she grew up with…...

22+ min ago (1954+ words) Jay Kelly" is a love letter to a certain kind of classic movie; it has a lush Hollywood score by Nicholas Britell, a big movie star, gorgeous locations. But you've said that, working on this movie, it began as an exercise to help you to fall in love with movies all over again. When did you fall out of love with them? I remember reading about the pajama parties on the set of Barbie." It must have been a very different vibe. I didn't go to those, but yeah. They were girls-only, I guess. But it must have been very different. I'm thinking of you filming that scene with the car in the river in White Noise." It was hard. Yeah, it was really difficult. And it's not my favorite kind of thing to be doing in movies. It's almost…...

32+ min ago (674+ words) New York Times: "More than a dozen candidates, as well as hundreds of state and county election officials across Texas, are watching and waiting for the Supreme Court to decide which congressional map will be used in Texas races in 2026, the old one drawn by Republicans in 2021 or the new one drawn by Republicans this summer." "The decision, which may come within days, could shift the outcome in several congressional races, and possibly impact which party controls the House. Regardless, it's affecting the candidates." "Republican-led committees in the Senate and the House say they will amplify their scrutiny of the Pentagon after a Washington Post report revealing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a" "Politics and debt don't mix well. Americans would be wise to look across the Atlantic to see how tough things can get," the Wall Street Journal…...

37+ min ago (515+ words) parents and two kids in matching christmas pajamas inside a circle with a line through it indicating no You'd think I would have learned my lesson. But a couple of weeks later, eager to receive a positive annual review for my first year of motherhood (yes, I would be both the employee and the supervisor in this metaphor'this pressure was all self-imposed), I brought the very same energy to another holiday tradition carried out almost entirely for social media. I put my family in matching holiday pajamas. So I went online, perused the snowflakes and Santas on sleds and dancing reindeer prints, and made my order. I bought the pajamas, prewashed them, made sure they were on everyone's bodies on Christmas Eve, and warned my husband to use caution with the Santa hat because it smashed his hair down in…...

41+ min ago (265+ words) Iran Guards seize foreign ship carrying 'smuggled' fuel Pope Leo heads to Lebanon Sunday under shadow of Israeli strikes Trump ramps up Venezuela threats, warns airspace 'closed' As MAGA turns on Zionism, Israel First right stokes Islamophobia How Yalla! Let's Talk became the Arab diaspora's leading podcast Inside Amir: A quiet portrait of leaving Iran Iran's Revolutionary Guards have seized a ship flying the flag of Eswatini and carrying "smuggled fuel", state media reported Sunday. Iranian forces regularly target tankers illegally transporting fuel in the Strait of Hormuz, a key chokepoint for global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments. "A vessel carrying 350,000 litres of smuggled fuel operating under the flag of Eswatini was seized and taken to Bushehr" in the south-west, state television said, quoting a local Revolutionary Guards commander. "There are 13 crew members on board, all from a neighbouring…...

48+ min ago (568+ words) Pope Leo heads to Lebanon Sunday under shadow of Israeli strikes Trump ramps up Venezuela threats, warns airspace 'closed' Egypt trains hundreds of Palestinians for future Gaza police As MAGA turns on Zionism, Israel First right stokes Islamophobia How Yalla! Let's Talk became the Arab diaspora's leading podcast Inside Amir: A quiet portrait of leaving Iran Pope Leo travels to Lebanon on Sunday, where he is expected to appeal for peace in a country that is a continued target of Israeli air strikes, on the second and final leg of his first overseas trip as leader of the Catholic Church. The first US pope will arrive from Turkey, where he has been visiting for four days and warned that humanity's future was at risk because of the world's unusual number of bloody conflicts and condemned violence in the name of…...

50+ min ago (76+ words) This is a breaking news story. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested presidential pardon amid ongoing corruption cases. The Israeli president's office on Sunday said Netanyahu submitted a request for pardon to President Isaac Herzog. This comes days after US President Donald Trump said Herzog should pardon Netanyahu in the corruption cases. Netanyahu is up against three separate cases of corruption filed in 2019, which include allegations of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust....

1+ hour, 40+ min ago (707+ words) Trump ramps up Venezuela threats, warns airspace 'closed' Egypt trains hundreds of Palestinians for future Gaza police Prince William meets 'courageous' child survivors of Gaza war As MAGA turns on Zionism, Israel First right stokes Islamophobia How Yalla! Let's Talk became the Arab diaspora's leading podcast Inside Amir: A quiet portrait of leaving Iran US President Donald Trump sharply escalated his threats against Venezuela on Saturday with an ominous warning that the country's airspace should be considered "closed," raising fears of imminent military action. Caracas, which views a large US military buildup in the Caribbean as a pressure campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro, slammed Trump's warning as a "colonialist threat." "To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers," Trump wrote on social media, "please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY." He…...