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Teacher who was jailed after classroom row over transgender pupil and refusing to 'call a boy a girl' will be joined in prison by his father after courtroom scuffle

A Christian ex-teacher jailed after a row over his refusal to address a transgender pupil as 'they' has been joined in prison by his father. Enoch Burke has spent more than 450 days behind bars in Ireland for contempt of court, having repeatedly refused to stay away from his former school in accordance with a court order. Seán Burke has …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

What Alice Munro Knew

New York Times

The man was Gerald Fremlin, a retired civil servant and geographer, who hailed from the same corner of Ontario as Munro. Munro amassed a thicket of honors, including the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 2013, by turning this parochial backwater, with its “falling-down barns” and “burdensome old churches,” into a stage for the whole human comedy, like Joyce’s Dublin or …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

There's 1 Massive Health Benefit Of Travel That We Don't Talk About Enough

Huff Post

Jordi Salas via Getty Images Traveling isn't just a fun and enriching activity — it can also boost your longevity. “I’m not surprised that a recent study out of Australia has shown that travel can help slow down the aging process,” said Doni Belau, CEO of Girls’ Guide to the World. “Travel has more to it than just breaking from …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Tiger, Tyger: A Tipu Sultan birthday story

Hindustan Times

This past Sunday, November 10, the 274th birthday of Tipu Sultan was celebrated peacefully in his erstwhile capital, Srirangapatna, amid heavy security. The party had just sat down at the edge of the jungle to eat a meal when they heard, in the words of eyewitness Capt Henry Conran, ‘a roar like thunder,’ and saw ‘an immense royal tiger spring …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

There's 1 Massive Health Benefit Of Travel That We Don't Talk About Enough

Huff Post

Jordi Salas via Getty Images Traveling isn't just a fun and enriching activity — it can also boost your longevity. “I’m not surprised that a recent study out of Australia has shown that travel can help slow down the aging process,” said Doni Belau, CEO of Girls’ Guide to the World. “Travel has more to it than just breaking from …

Health Social Stress Physical Activity Process Aging Getty Images

3 months ago

Green drought pressure in South East SA sees 70 farmers receive Need for Feed charity fodder

ABC

Almost any farmer in South Australia will tell you it has been a tough winter. The region has been subject to a "green drought", with historically low rainfall for the season causing little animal feed to grow. "It probably started last winter when it was an awfully wet winter … followed by poor spring and a long dry summer into …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

The two worlds straddled by a writer: The personal and the professional

Times of India

She loves delving into the mundanities of pedestrian life and unveil the underlying magic that they hold, in her writings. I pitied her.” Then I happened to see the movie based on the life of the author who gave us Noddy, the Famous Five, the Faraway Wood series, Malory Towers and created that fantasy world where I would escape as …

Writing Life Mother Human Catherine Read Munro

4 months, 1 week ago

JLS star JB Gill reveals nothing can break him and his wife Chloe and claims they are 'stronger than ever' despite many couples breaking up over a certain dance show

Daily Mail

A look back at when The Curse struck. Series 7: Joe Calzaghe and Kristina Rihanoff Not to be: Kristina is said to have also wanted children while Joe already has two sons from a previous relationship Over: Unfortunately for Kara and Artem their relationship didn't go the distance Scandal: Kristina was recently forced to defend her romance with Ben Former …

Georgia Dance Relationship Marriage Star Sean George

4 months, 1 week ago

New patient transfer service launched to fly patients to capital cities as medical services in country dry up

ABC

Every year Frankie McKenzie and his parents drive around 4,000 kilometres from the country town of Lake Grace in the state's south to Perth for medical treatment. "What we're looking to do is make it easier for people in the regions to access health services," said foundation director Adrian Munro. "We're providing more of a transport to help people access …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Senior police officer fired for ‘punching two women’

The Independent

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

The rattle of skeletons

Hindustan Times

Across the long arc of cultural history — and the urgent domain of ethics — the importance of this kinship violation cannot be fully appreciated without measuring it against the unique feminism with which Munro has come to be identified. De Man’s sharpest reader, Christopher Norris, called it, perhaps not without a sense of mischief, “ideological auto-critique.” Unthinkingly, De Man …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Commentary: Alice Munro was no better than the miserable women she wrote about

LA Times

If you lived wholly online and never talked to real people, you’d imagine there are only two camps: Those who can forgive any artist’s sins and take the art on its own terms as if it were shot from some cannon on Mt. When news broke this week of Alice Munro remaining with the man who’d sexually abused her daughter …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Alice Munro sexual-abuse revelations: One story offers a key.

Slate

If you love Alice Munro’s fiction, you’ve likely spent much of the past few days wondering: How could an artist so sensitive and astute behave with such callous selfishness toward her own child? What’s striking about “Vandals” is how briefly and obliquely Munro describes this abuse as Liza remembers it—a handful of lines about how “Ladner grabbed Liza and squashed …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Katie Price's ex Kieran Hayler 'lands new role alongside Doctor Who's Matt Smith' in upcoming black comedy about a sex-addict

Daily Mail

Katie Price's ex Kieran Hayler has reportedly 'landed a new role alongside Doctor Who's Matt Smith' in an upcoming black comedy. Filming for the Sky drama, The Death Of Bunny Munro, has been taking place around London and Brighton, with Matt seen on set at Saltdean Lido last Tuesday. Katie Price's ex Kieran Hayler, 37, has reportedly 'landed a new …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Nobel-winning writer’s daughter reveals she was sexually abused by stepfather and her mom stayed with him

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The daughter of Nobel Laureate, …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Alice Munro’s daughter reveals sexual abuse by stepfather, says mother stayed silent

LA Times

Canadian short story author Alice Munro died in May at age 92. After briefly leaving Fremlin, Munro told Skinner of her husband’s “friendships” with other children and said she “had been betrayed.” “When I tried to tell her how her husband’s abuse had hurt me, she was incredulous,” Skinner wrote. After her revelation, Skinner said, Fremlin allegedly threatened her if …

Abuse Mother My Mother Wrote Her Mother Skinner Munro

7 months ago

The Hindu on Books newsletter | Alice Munro’s stories, ‘Kairos’ and the Booker shortlist, election reading and more

The Hindu

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. Books of the week Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, and shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, is a remarkable blend of “love and politics”, played out in the backdrop of a tangible barrier – the Berlin Wall. Some of the books she mentions are …

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7 months ago

6 essential collections to celebrate short story month

LA Times

Alice Munro, who devoted almost her entire career to the art of the short story, has died at age 92. I especially love reading translated stories from other parts of the world, and there have been some outstanding collections this year: “My Documents: Stories” by Alejandro Zambra and translated by Megan McDowell Originally published in English in 2015, Zambra’s stories …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Alice Munro, the writers’ writer

The Hindu

Published : May 16, 2024 12:58 IST - 4 MINS READ If there is such a person in this world as a writerly writer, surely that must be Alice Munro, queen of short stories. The first Munro short story I read was the absolutely stunning “The Progress of Love”, a non-linear story about three generations of women and the fragmented, …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Alice Munro’s stories gave voice to women’s unspoken, almost unspeakable, inner lives

LA Times

I was 15 — a Canadian kid growing up on a diet of my country’s many remarkable authors and a would-be writer myself — when I first read Alice Munro’s “Lives of Girls and Women.” I skimmed that slim volume of short stories with the supreme haughtiness of youth. Less than two decades later, I would close the last page …

Women Life Lives Munro Her Stories

7 months, 1 week ago

Canadian Nobel-winning author Alice Munro dies aged 92

Al Jazeera

Munro was renowned for her short stories, which focussed on the frailties of the human condition. “Alice’s writing inspired countless writers … and her work leaves an indelible mark on our literary landscape,” Cochrane said. “A true literary genius … her short stories about life, friendship, and human connection left an indelible mark on readers,” he said. “There was never …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Alice Munro dies: The book that explains her genius.

Slate

When Alice Munro, who died Monday, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2013, some saw it as the Swedish Academy stooping to validate a certain kind of fiction often dismissed as “the New Yorker short story”: quiet, realistic, domestic in focus, and with little in the way of conventional plot. Munro belonged to that handful of short story writers …

Nobel Munro

7 months, 1 week ago

Alice Munro dead: Canadian short story writer was 92

LA Times

Alice Munro, the Canadian short story writer who lent mythic proportions to the lives of ordinary people from small, rural towns like those in the Ontario countryside where she spent most of her life, has died. “Alice Munro is a national treasure — a writer of enormous depth, empathy, and humanity whose work is read, admired, and cherished by readers …

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7 months, 1 week ago

New Zealand blaster Munro retires from internationals

Hindustan Times

May 10 - Colin Munro, a South Africa-born power hitter who smashed a slew of batting records for New Zealand, has retired from international cricket after missing out on a spot in the Black Caps' T20 World Cup squad. New Zealand blaster Munro retires from internationals The 37-year-old lefthander's last international was a T20 match against India in 2020 but …

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Teacher who was jailed after classroom row over transgender pupil and refusing to 'call a boy a girl' will be joined in prison by his father after courtroom scuffle

What Alice Munro Knew

There's 1 Massive Health Benefit Of Travel That We Don't Talk About Enough

Tiger, Tyger: A Tipu Sultan birthday story

There's 1 Massive Health Benefit Of Travel That We Don't Talk About Enough

Green drought pressure in South East SA sees 70 farmers receive Need for Feed charity fodder

The two worlds straddled by a writer: The personal and the professional

JLS star JB Gill reveals nothing can break him and his wife Chloe and claims they are 'stronger than ever' despite many couples breaking up over a certain dance show

New patient transfer service launched to fly patients to capital cities as medical services in country dry up

Senior police officer fired for ‘punching two women’

The rattle of skeletons

Commentary: Alice Munro was no better than the miserable women she wrote about

Alice Munro sexual-abuse revelations: One story offers a key.

Katie Price's ex Kieran Hayler 'lands new role alongside Doctor Who's Matt Smith' in upcoming black comedy about a sex-addict

Nobel-winning writer’s daughter reveals she was sexually abused by stepfather and her mom stayed with him

Alice Munro’s daughter reveals sexual abuse by stepfather, says mother stayed silent

The Hindu on Books newsletter | Alice Munro’s stories, ‘Kairos’ and the Booker shortlist, election reading and more

6 essential collections to celebrate short story month

Alice Munro, the writers’ writer

Opinion: Alice Munro’s stories gave voice to women’s unspoken, almost unspeakable, inner lives

Canadian Nobel-winning author Alice Munro dies aged 92

Alice Munro dies: The book that explains her genius.

Alice Munro dead: Canadian short story writer was 92

New Zealand blaster Munro retires from internationals