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It’s Carnival time in Italy, and all regions are busy preparing and having fun according to tradition. I’ve been celebrating carnival in Sardinia since I was a child, for me it was a sacrosanct annual event to be spent out from morning to...

Sevan Makaracı posted a blog post Powerful 7.2M quake jolted 3 Philippine islands, kills 93, death toll rising Aledel Cuizon said the quake that caught her in her bedroom sounded like "a huge truck that was approaching and the rumbling sound grew louder...

Each year, I keep a running list of exceptional nonfiction that I encounter as I publish The Best of Journalism, an email newsletter that I curate weekly for its subscribers. This is my annual attempt to bring some of those stories to a wider audience...

Emanuela Gessa is possibly the luckiest medical student in the world. Why? Because she get’s to call the most beautiful postcard you can imagine, home. It’s a destination many of us only dream of visiting, yet each afternoon, as the sun sets over the...

Jazz in 2016 is fractured, diverse, and varied—which is what you’d expect from a genre that’s evolved over the course of generations. Even the uncountable sub-genres of bop, post-bop, chamber jazz, world jazz, Latin jazz, ambient jazz, jazz electronica...