O winged Lady,Like a birdYou scavenge the land.Like a charging stormYou charge,Like a roaring stormYou roar,You thunder in thunder,Snort in rampaging winds.Your feet are continually restless.Carrying your harp of sighs,You breathe out the music of mourning. — from “Hymn to Inanna” by Enheduanna,translated from the Sumerian by Jane Hirshfield PROPHETESS ONE RISKS ANGERING the gods…
Sophie Ecclestone is the world’s No 1 bowler across the both women’s white-ball formats – but, ahead of the 2024 Women’s T20 World Cup, what else do we know about the England spinner affectionally nicknamed ‘Eccy’? In an exclusive interview as part of the Sky Sports Editions series, Ecclestone – a massive Everton fan –…
Food Voyages: Six journeys in search of a single bite. Text by Ligaya Mishan Photographs and video by Luisa Dörr Sept. 26, 2024 I used to take pride in eating the hottest chiles I could. I went up the ranks of the Scoville scale, dosing myself with Thai bird chiles, Scotch bonnets, habaneros, Trinidad Moruga…
Sky Sports’ Will Greenwood believes that England’s “outstanding” recent performances against New Zealand have put them back amongst the world’s top four rugby teams. After edging out England 16-15 in a Dunedin thriller, the All Blacks came from behind to keep their 30-year unbeaten run at Eden Park intact, a 24-17 victory giving them the…
Six-time DP World Tour winner Marcel Siem has put his “massive” party for Italian Open victory on hold to focus on his push towards the world’s top 50 over the coming weeks. Siem marked his fourth event back from hip surgery by defeating Tom McKibbin in a dramatic play-off on Sunday at Adriatic Golf Club…
To be media literate these days is to understand that no ranked list, whether it is the “100 Greatest Drummers of All Time” or the “35 Cutest Dog Breeds to Ever Exist,” should be taken too literally. We all know that the cuteness of the Maltipoo and the awesomeness of Keith Moon are matters of…
Installed on vintage hardware at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, laid out chronologically, the first career survey of the innovative Net artist Auriea Harvey tells a story about mortality, and survival. In Harvey’s jewel-box worlds, there aren’t heroes or villains, just people, losing and loving, enmeshed in the slipstream of tech….
