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The climate is visiting a mental unravelling on all of us: Charlie Hertzog Young on the danger

Climate crisisThe teenage campaigner took politicians to task about the environment – but their apathy contributed to a devastating decline in his mental health. He talks about his recovery and the radical ideas we need to save the Earth Precisely how he got there, and why, he does not remember, but Charlie Hertzog Young knows that in the autumn of 2019, aged 27 and at the height of his despair, he jumped from a high building in London.

Unsexing Marilyn Monroe | Lee Siegel for the New York Review of Books blog, part of the Guardian Com

Guardian Comment NetworkMovies This article is more than 12 years oldUnsexing Marilyn MonroeThis article is more than 12 years oldLee Siegel for the New York Review of Books blog, part of the Guardian Comment NetworkMy Week with Marilyn envelops the star in a chaste aura. This desire to desexualise goes back to Arthur MillerIt is not entirely the fault of the recent movie My Week with Marilyn – about Monroe's disastrous attempt to make The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier – that it is devoid of sex, which is something like depicting the life of Napoleon without mentioning that he was French.

Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine review haunted by lost lands

The ObserverFictionReviewA debut novel set in 1930s Denver blends the colonial past with a dangerous present in a feat of old-school storytelling Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s debut novel is set in 1930s Denver, Colorado, a teeming city built on the exploits of white colonial settlers and the erasure of Indigenous American lands, histories and societies. Its heroine is Luz Lopez, who must struggle to survive despite a traumatic past, a dangerous present and an unknown future.

Akbar Ganji | The Guardian

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Bomb threat against judge in Trumps New York trial was swatting incident, police say | New

New YorkBomb threat against judge in Trump’s New York trial was ‘swatting’ incident, police saySpecial counsel Jack Smith and another judge have also been victims of swatting as they oversee other cases against Trump The bomb threat against the judge presiding over Donald Trump’s New York trial for financial fraud that caused a frenzy on the day of closing arguments turned out to be yet another high-profile “swatting” incident, police said.