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Hotel Exile by Jane Rogoyska review – the remarkable story of a wartime institution | History books

Hotel Exile by Jane Rogoyska review – the remarkable story of a wartime institution | History books

Published by Sam Flores

The word “hotel” is cognate with “hostel” and “hospital”, and for a few short years in the middle of the 20th century, one Paris establishment functioned as all three. Hôtel Lutetia sits on the city’s Left Bank and exudes a certain nonconformist swagger. Opened in 1910 and built in a style that bobbed between art nouveau and art deco, it soon attracted an artistic and bohemian crowd. Hemingway hung out there in the 1920s, as did Picasso, Matisse and André Gide. James Joyce, resident in the city for 20 years, wrote a chunk of Ulysses sitting at one of its tables. In this outstanding book, which has been shortlisted for the Women’s prize for nonfiction, Jane Rogoyska reports that by the mid-1930s the Lutetia had become headquarters to German political dissidents fleeing Hitler. “The Lutetia Crowd”, as the Nazis disdainfully dubbed them, comprised the intellectual cream of the Weimar Republic. Heinrich Mann, novelist brother of the more famous Thomas, was the head of the organising committee that worked to bring down the Nazi regime from …

National Youth Orchestra/ Chauhan: Collide review – surging energy and remarkable intensity | Classical music

National Youth Orchestra/ Chauhan: Collide review – surging energy and remarkable intensity | Classical music

Published by Sam Flores

There’s always more at an NYO concert. More players: 160 this time, crammed on to a platform that seems full with half that number. More of the energy that comes with the fact that, for every player, this is a very special occasion. And, in recent seasons, more stuff to remind us that these are teenagers, not hard-bitten professionals. This time there was a semi-choreographed walk-on to a mashup of Raye and Chaka Khan, with the percussion taking the lead and the assembled orchestra eventually joining in. There was a short speech from one of the players before each work – somewhere between pointing out a personal connection with the music and giving superfluous justification for its inclusion. And as an encore – sung, not played – there was Jacob Collier’s Something Heavy, with a bit more choreography. Safe to say the other orchestras conducted by Alpesh Chauhan, the NYO’s new principal conductor, don’t ask all this of their players. But often the tautness and focus of the playing exceeded what he might expect from …

Best E Ink Notetakers 2026 : Remarkable 2, Kindle, Boox

Best E Ink Notetakers 2026 : Remarkable 2, Kindle, Boox

Published by skeptic

E Ink notetakers in 2026 cater to a variety of needs, balancing functionality and specialization. Vladimir Kostek highlights key examples, such as the Remarkable Paper Pro, which stands out in the color e-ink category with its 11.8-inch Gallery 3 panel. This device offers vibrant visuals for creative tasks while maintaining core note-taking features, though its limited app compatibility underscores the trade-offs involved in prioritizing certain capabilities. Explore how compact models like the Supernote Nomad emphasize portability with a 7.8-inch display, or dive into AI-enhanced devices such as the Vuuuds AI Paper, which focus on smart organizational features. Gain insight into budget-friendly options like the Remarkable 2, which delivers a distraction-free experience tailored to essential note-taking needs. Color E-Ink Notetakers TL;DR Key Takeaways : The e-ink technology landscape in 2026 offers advanced features like sharper displays, color capabilities, AI tools and faster refresh rates, catering to diverse user needs. Color e-ink notetakers, such as the Remarkable Paper Pro and Kindle Color Soft Scribe, are ideal for vibrant displays and creative tasks, while devices like the Note …

One of the Most Remarkable Publishing Stories I Have Ever Read

One of the Most Remarkable Publishing Stories I Have Ever Read

Published by Jenni Sidey

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. One of the Most Remarkable Publishing Stories I Have Ever Read I try to avoid hyperbole. Best. Craziest. Worst. Whatever. And I am not sure what superlative applies to the story of Woody Brown, his debut novel, and his mother, Mary Brown. I implore you to give it a few minutes of your time. I can tell you this much: I will be reading Upward Bound. Amazon is Making Reading Magazines Through Kindle Unlimited Worse Reading magazines is (was?) one of the secret superpowers of Kindle Unlimited. The selection was good, reading quotas generous, and delivery automatic. Two of those things are getting worse this month: Today In Books Sign up to Today In Books to receive daily news and miscellany from the world of books. Subscribe to Selected No Thanks Automatic delivery is ending: Only the issues …

Trump has damaged democracy at remarkable speed, reports find : NPR

Trump has damaged democracy at remarkable speed, reports find : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Before he was elected to a second term, former President Donald Trump hugged and kissed the U.S. flag as he spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., in 2024. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP Three major reports out this month say President Trump has done serious damage to American democracy at remarkable speed since his return to the White House. An annual report from V-Dem, an institute at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg, concluded democracy had deteriorated so much in the U.S. that it lowered the country’s democracy ranking from 20th to 51st out of 179 countries. The U.S. landed between Slovakia and Greece. Meanwhile, Bright Line Watch, which surveys more than 500 U.S. scholars, concluded that the U.S. system now falls nearly midway between liberal democracy and dictatorship. The newest survey comes out next week. Bright Line Watch’s co-directors spoke to NPR exclusively ahead of publication. Yet another report out Thursday from Freedom House, a Washington, D.C.-based democracy think-tank, said that among free countries, the …

Wild bobcat making remarkable recovery after getting hit by car

Wild bobcat making remarkable recovery after getting hit by car

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In February, Tracie Young, director of the Raven Ridge Wildlife Center in Pennsylvania, received an unforgettable phone call.  A game warden asked if the center in southeastern Pennsylvania had room for a bobcat that had been hit and dragged by a car.  Photographs on Facebook of the incident are horrific, capturing the wild feline with its head jammed in the vehicle’s grill. Young said yes, but with little hopes that the bobcat would survive the drive.  A game warden called in the injured bobcat after it had been mistakenly hit and dragged by a car. Image: Tracie Young/Raven Ridge Wildlife Center.  Despite her expectations, the cat made it to the facility, though it was clear it was suffering severely. The team needed to get X-rays to really understand the nature of its injuries. But it was a Sunday, and the nearby veterinary practice was closed until the next morning.  A fortunate series of connections thus leapt into action. Young …

14 remarkable images of New York City’s 1888 blizzard

14 remarkable images of New York City’s 1888 blizzard

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In March 1888, a deadly blizzard clobbered New York City. The snow paralyzed the city—trains stood still for days, telegraph services stopped functioning, and even after the snow stopped, flooding from the melting caused widespread damage. New York City and the East Coast are preparing for another historic storm, but at least they won’t have to rely on horse-drawn carriages to clear all the white stuff. In 1888, New York City couldn’t just slap plows on the front of garbage trucks. Image: Public Domain Snow blocks the entrance to a store. Image: Library of Congress, Public Domain Image: Brooklyn Museum, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons Image: Public domain Image: Breading G. Way, No restrictions A view toward Wall Street during the Great Blizzard of 1888. Image: Brown Brothers, Public domain A grocer digs out the front of his store while a child looks on. Image: Public domain The Brooklyn Bridge. Image: Wallace G. Levison, Public domain Brooklyn brownstones buried …

Physicists explain the remarkable energy-harvesting efficiency of perovskite solar cells

Physicists explain the remarkable energy-harvesting efficiency of perovskite solar cells

Published by Jenni Sidey

Light can hit a lead halide perovskite crystal that is anything but pristine and still end up as useful electric current. That mismatch has bothered solar researchers for more than a decade. Silicon needs an almost spotless lattice. Perovskites, grown cheaply from solution, are packed with defects, strain, and disorder. Yet their solar-cell efficiencies have climbed into the same neighborhood. Postdoc Dmytro Rak and assistant professor Zhanybek Alpichshev report that perovskites such as MAPbBr3 host dense networks of microscopic domain walls, boundaries between small regions of slightly different strain. Those walls, they say, carry localized flexoelectric polarization that creates internal electric fields. The fields can split newly created electron hole pairs and keep them apart long enough to move. In perovskites, the “defects” can become the route, not the roadblock. ISTA physicists explain the exceptional energy-harvesting efficiency of perovskites. Left to right: Assistant Professor Zhanybek Alpichshev and postdoc Dmytro Rak. (CREDIT: ISTA) A material that should not behave this way Solar cells do two things well or they fail: they absorb light, and they keep …

The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human

The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human

Published by skeptic

Playing a complex guitar solo ought to be impossible. To elicit the desired torrent of notes, the fingers of one hand must move nimbly around the fretboard, while the other hand plucks the strings, in a dexterous combination of speed and strength. Anyone who has watched an expert player and then picked up a guitar for themselves will understand the degree of skill required. What’s less obvious is that our hands have been shaped by evolution for tasks just like this. It might not feel like it the first time you try out this instrument, but hands with that special combination of precision and strength are a defining trait of our species. In fact, the evolution of the human hand is one of the most important stories in our origin, at least as central as that of our oversized brain. Yet for many decades, the evolution of the hand has been impossible to grasp: there were too few fossil hands and the story they told didn’t make much sense. Now, thanks to a string of …

EastEnders icon and Bridgerton star confirmed to join Glenn Close in “remarkable” new drama series

EastEnders icon and Bridgerton star confirmed to join Glenn Close in “remarkable” new drama series

Published by Daniella Wilson

An upcoming Channel 4 drama starring Hollywood legend Glenn Close has added more famous faces to its cast. Up to No Good is a forthcoming drama, starring Close as Maud Oldcastle – described as a “hilariously brusque, cantankerous and ruthless older woman” – who has spent her life caring for vulnerable sister, Charlotte (Penelope Wilton). As she grows increasingly frustrated with her situation, Maud goes to extreme lengths to break free and “claim a long-overdue second act”. “But when a suspicious young detective investigating a death in Maud’s building starts to believe there is more to her than meets the eye, Maud is forced to reckon with her crimes, present and past,” teases the synopsis. Today, Channel 4 announced that After Life and Downton Abbey star Wilton had joined the cast as Maud’s sister, alongside Bridgerton and Toxic Town breakout Claudia Jessie as the insightful detective on the case. Want to see this content? We’re not able to show you this content from Google reCAPTCHA. Please sign out of Contentpass to view this content. Sign …