Netflix Does Nina

from Paste Magazine Netflix is Producing an Original Nina Simone Documentary By Christine Campbell Netflix has taken on a Liz Garbus documentary detailing the life of iconic songstress and civil rights activist, Nina Simone. The project, to be called What Happened,...

Cardiac Pulmonary Remonkeytation

from The AP MONKEY GIVES FIRST AID TO ELECTROCUTED FRIEND NEW DELHI (AP) — Onlookers at a train station in northern India watched in awe as a monkey came to the rescue of an injured friend – resuscitating another monkey that had been electrocuted and...

God Is Data

from The Wall Street Journal Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God The odds of life existing on another planet grow ever longer. Intelligent design, anyone? By ERIC METAXAS In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have accepted the...

Memoir-Novels

from The New York Times What Accounts for Our Current — or Recurrent — Fascination With Memoir-Novels? Each week in Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books. This week, Leslie Jamison and Daniel Mendelsohn discuss our interest in narratives...