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Chance Encounter Between 2 Indiana Graduates Rescues Former College Ball Star from Homelessness

See that red backpack there? Sampson James used it to carry around his meager possessions during a stint of homelessness. Little did James know at the time this photo was taken, however, that it was also carrying around his salvation. This remarkable story of fraternity—philosophical and literal—comes from Steve Hartman’s “On the Road” segment at […]

Good News NetworkGood News NetworkAndy Corbley7 Sept

Lebron James Teases Polymarket Deal as Prediction Market Hype Explodes

On Saturday, NBA superstar LeBron James published a video on X and Instagram hinting at an upcoming partnership with the leading prediction marketplace Polymarket. The promotion comes as prediction markets have become a mega-trend worldwide and a multi-billion-dollar industry. LeBron James Teases Polymarket Partnership “Welcome to Polymarket HQ. Coming soon,” James wrote on X. “In […]

Bitcoin.com NewsBitcoin.com NewsJamie Redman5 Sept

The Disappearers by Marlon James review – a scorching exposé of homophobia in Jamaica

This Booker-listed epic set in Aids-era Kingston is a triumph – bitter, bawdy and ravishingly queer “A sense of sweep,” replied Marlon James, when asked what moves him most in literature. “Sweep isn’t just about external journeys, but internal as well. It can be over years and decades, or across land and sea.” If that explanation is still hazy, pick up his mighty new novel, which is longlisted for this year’s Booker prize and is tirelessly – sometimes exhaustingly – grand and peripatetic. Mounting a grisly exposé of Jamaican homophobia, this polyphonic 640-page doorstopper is an emotionally bruising narrative that roves “uptown, downtown, ghetto and gully” through Aids-era Kingston with sidetrack excursions to 1950s England and a closing leap to 2000s United States. The novel’s defining event is a gruesome mob attack on eight queer men who have clandestinely come together to work on bringing John Herbert’s 1967 gay prison play, Fortune and Men’s Eyes, to the stage. The goal, in the words of director Havelock Titus, is to shatter “the whole fragile myth of Jamaican male sexuality”. “Because prison,” he explains, “is the ultimate male institution and yet masculine sexualities that could never happen outside in the normal world flourish in there all the time.” Continue reading...

The GuardianThe GuardianYagnishsing Dawoor24 Aug

My best ever British holiday: ‘I’ve travelled further, at greater expense, and had nothing like as much fun’

Five travel writers share their favourite holidays at home, from gravel biking in Scotland and a steam train ride in Yorkshire to rowing all the way from Oxford to London One of my best UK holidays was the week I spent in June 2013 rowing from Oxford to London with two friends, James and Tom. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe GuardianMax Benato, Kirsten Henton, Jill Mead, Marcel Theroux, Andy Pietrasik23 Aug