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Writ largeLawFantastic talesThe strange (and untrue) case of the lawyer convicted of arson for smoking cigarsOK, here's the story going the rounds in America and all over the internet. A lawyer in Charlotte, North Carolina, bought a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against fire. A month later, after smoking all the cigars, he filed a claim against the insurance company, claiming that the cigars had been destroyed "

Abuse behind barsUS prisons This article is more than 2 months oldOne prison guard, 96 abuse charges: women say ‘serial rapist’ targeted them over a decadeThis article is more than 2 months oldExclusive: Records and interviews suggest the California prison system let Gregory Rodriguez get away with rampant sexual abuse, while his victims were punished On 15 May 2022, Gregory Rodriguez, a guard at the Central California Women’s Facility, ordered a 30-year-old woman in his custody to come to a hearing room at the prison.

Autobiography and memoirReviewA study of the small, miraculous domestic dramas by an electrifying writer, eager to challenge society’s norms Let’s start with an introduction. Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation. Born in 1973, she has so far produced nine books, four of poetry and five of non-fiction, knitting together what might in heavier hands be abstruse theory and humid confession to create an exhilarating new language for considering both the messiness of life and the meanings of art.

TV reviewFood TVReviewNetflix’s latest food show turns top-tier cooking into frantic theatre. The result is frustrating and unrewarding Imagine a cooking programme so bombastic it makes Gordon Ramsay’s latest look like Lark Rise to Candleford. Imagine a programme so devoid of subtlety or nuance that it makes you long for the piercing insights of Gregggg “This tastes like I just killed your pets” Wallace and John “Which way do the pointy fork bits go again?