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Going out: Cinema Last BreathOut nowA survival thriller that hews close to the documentary on which it is based, about a 2012 diving disaster in which a diver carrying out repairs 100m below the surface of the ocean became trapped. Starring Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu and Finn Cole, it’s the fiction debut of Alex Parkinson, … Read more

Persuasion Chosen by Colm Tóibín I read Persuasion first when I was 15, since it was on the school curriculum in Ireland. (The other novel was Conrad’s Lord Jim.) Thirty eager country boys, under the guidance of a priest, learned all about baronets and country seats and single girls and marriage plots, and Lyme and … Read more

Carl Lundstrom, the heir to a Swedish crisp bread fortune who financed the Pirate Bay, a notorious file-sharing service that was popular in the mid-2000s, was killed on Monday in a small plane crash in Slovenia, according to Alternative for Sweden, the far-right party that he supported. Mr. Lundstrom, 64, was the pilot and sole … Read more

Kevin Drum, who gave up his day job in software marketing to write online about politics, policy and his cats, quickly becoming a key figure in the vanguard of center-left bloggers during the genre’s heyday in the early 2000s, died on March 7. He was 66. His wife, Marian Drum, announced the death on his … Read more

Think of contemporary architecture in the Gulf and you might think of gilded towers rising from the desert, eye-popping “iconic” museums, and artificial islands carved into ever more fanciful shapes. But, sandwiched between the petrodollar glitz of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, there is an enclave that has been quietly bucking the trend. In Bahrain’s old … Read more

Time is short for the family at the heart of Joshua Oppenheimer’s new film. Mother, Father and their adult son eke out their days in an underground bunker with the walls decorated with priceless old masters, fine wine on the table and half a mile of bedrock above their heads. They gather each evening for formal dinners. … Read more

‘I’ve kept company with very violent people for a very long time,” says documentary-maker Dan Reed, in his office whose location has to be kept secret – I was led here, from a decoy address, by the Channel 4 publicist. “I’ve had murderers try to find me. I’ve had people threaten to shoot me who … Read more

Ms. Brown added that she accepted the job only after her mother agreed to move to New York to help with the children. “Never at any time throughout all this did Graydon’s name come up to me as a possible alternate candidate,” she wrote, adding that she was “so bedeviled by Graydon’s angry recollection.” “Si … Read more

My earliest reading memoryOne of my older sisters taught me to read using Mills & Boon romance novels. I grew up autistic and queer and feel a nostalgic bewilderment about this genre, which at that time was populated by strong heroines who would – predictably but unfathomably – go weak at the knees for their … Read more

One of the most pernicious effects of a bully’s intimidation is making victims afraid of being true to themselves, because it’s the essential and authentic parts of them that incite the bully’s contempt. During his first week in office Donald Trump issued a blitzkrieg of executive orders. Among them, Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based … Read more