JK Rowling will not be prosecuted for her critical comments on Scotland’s law against incitement to transgender hatred

JK Rowling will not be prosecuted for her critical comments on Scotland’s law against incitement to transgender hatred

By Figaro with Reuters Published 6 hours ago, Updated 5 hours ago Scottish justice will not prosecute JK Rowling for her comments on the new law against incitement to transgender hatred. AFP/Dia Dipasupil Scottish Police said through their spokesperson that the Harry Potter author’s comments “were not considered criminal and would not be the subject … Read more

Top History Books for Christmas 2023: Gift Ideas to Delight Any History Buff

Top History Books for Christmas 2023: Gift Ideas to Delight Any History Buff

This is a good time to both give gifts and immerse yourself in exciting reading. Especially since the range of personalities and periods shines with its diversity: the war of 39-45, the Napoleonic empire, the Ancien Régime… Giving a book for the holidays is often a good idea. But not just any book: this is … Read more

The Naivety of Criticism: Exploring the Rowdy Big Apple of the ‘Seventies’ in Seth Greenland’s New Novel

The Naivety of Criticism: Exploring the Rowdy Big Apple of the ‘Seventies’ in Seth Greenland’s New Novel

CRITICISM – The writer takes up certain characters from his previous novels, gives them a past and recapitulates an entire era. That of the rowdy Big Apple of the “seventies”. This shows his naivety. In 1976, Paul Schwartzman, nicknamed Pablo, dreamed of writing a screenplay about Cicero. In the meantime, he writes porn film reviews … Read more

You don’t know anything about me: The Prize-Winning First Novel that Explores the Life of the ‘Mown of Chartres’ and the Purge

You don’t know anything about me: The Prize-Winning First Novel that Explores the Life of the ‘Mown of Chartres’ and the Purge

You don’t know anything about me by Julie Héraclès won the Prize for best first novel. The book returns to the Purge symbolized by a photo by Robert Capa showing a woman branded for having collaborated with the Germans. «Writing about her has never been a way of clearing her customs, but, perhaps, of making … Read more

Unearthing Luxury: New Excavations Reveal Opulent Winery at Villa dei Quintili near Rome

17 apr 2023 om 21:00 New excavations near Rome show that wealthy Romans lived in even more luxury and opulence than previously thought. An extensive winery has been found at the ruins of Villa dei Quintili southeast of the Italian capital. The winery consisted of several parts. For example, there were lined barrels in which … Read more

Roman tool actually turns out to be a two-thousand-year-old dildo | Remarkable

20 feb 2023 om 20:03Update: 18 minuten geleden British archaeologists have discovered a Roman dildo more than 2,000 years old. The object was already found in 1992 and labeled a tool, but renewed research has revealed its real function. According to The Guardian it is a pleasure club of about 16 centimeters. “It clearly looks … Read more

“Blood Country” by Paul Auster and Spencer Ostrander: autopsy of American violence

By Serge Bressan – Lagrandeparade.fr / Some talk about “mass killings”. Others speak of “mass shootings”. In two days at the end of January 2023, the United States experienced horror. First, a man enters a nightclub in the suburbs of Los Angeles, he shoots, balance sheet: 11 dead, 9 injured. Forty-eight hours later, in farms … Read more

MEMORY OF THE FUTURE: CHILE 2019-2022

Description Chile, October 18, 2019: a popular uprising on an unprecedented scale is shaking the neoliberal system maintained since the end of the Pinochet dictatorship. September 4, 2022: the constitutional proposal drawn up by the Constituent Assembly resulting from this revolt is rejected by referendum. During these three years, the social movements carried out a … Read more

Piotr Fronczewski confronted with his daughters. The subject was his extramarital affair

– It turned out that she was going to be a bastard, no honest conversation with my father, she had been pregnant with them for years. They had regret in their hearts and made him feel it in their conversations. Piotr was convinced that his biography did the trick, because he was honest and told … Read more

Romanians, called “idiots” of Europe by a German newspaper. “It’s hell, it’s like war”

The German tabloid Hamburger Morgenpost writes about low vaccination rates in Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine. In an article entitled “Idiots of Europe: Why the situation in the East is escalating en masse”, the Germans note that although the health crisis has reached its peak in this part of the continent, many people refuse to get … Read more