In response, authorities are adjusting their tracing methods. They are now offering free and anonymous testing for anybody who went near the affected areas in late April and early May. In a break with previous practice, they are seeking to reassure p...
Shockingly, a wife who believed I was not myself, myself in her everyday dutifulness felt herself remade when her husband, coming home tight, split her lip and knuckled her neck to its proper angle; and was grateful for his remodelling. Yet the all-t...
These Astorians comprise not only fairly conventional male Jewish shopkeepers with dreams of a racier existence, but some gay and black confederates. A series of escapades, charmingly told if loosely connected, depict Benny and his matesamong them Ma...
President Xi Jinping is calling for stronger international cooperation against the COVID-19 pandemic. He made the remarks in separate phone calls with his Brazilian and Kazakh counterparts. The Chinese president says his country stands ready to provi...
Business 商业版块 Austerity in Silicon Valley 硅谷的紧缩政策 The next garage 下一个车库 The crisis has hit techs spiritual home hard, but it is already planning ahead 这场危机严重打击了科技公司的精神家园,但是它已...
Books arts 文艺板块 Book review 书评 British fiction 英国小说 Down to Brixton 去布里克斯顿 Pomeranski. By Gerald Jacobs. 波美兰斯基。作者:杰拉尔德雅各布斯 Vincent Van Gogh once lived in Brixton, where the fledgling a...
But once she was married and the mother of two small daughters, happy if she could jot down just one line or one image, that was not her life. Her days now revolved round cooking, washing up, nappies, feeds; lifting the kettle to the gas stove, setti...
Asia 亚洲板块 Covid-19 in South Korea 韩国的新冠肺炎 A catchy beat 一次记忆深刻的打击 A cluster of infections at nightclubs mars the relaxation of restrictions 夜店出现的一系列感染事件破坏了限制的放宽举措。...
India's government said it would spend $266bn (10% of GDP) on stimulus measures to diminish the economic damage done by its COVID-19 lockdown. Around 120m Indians have lost their jobs over the past two months. 印度政府表示,将投入2660亿美元...
A paper by researchers at Oxford University, published on May 14th, finds that nearly one in five of those working in essential care-related occupations are immigrants. In all, a little more than half of EU migrants now classed as key workers would n...