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Alan Yang’s Tigertail begins with a young boy running through the rice fields of occupied Taiwan. He sees a chimerical vision of his parents in the distance — his father, who died when he was an infant, and his...

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Start stockpiling those Kleenex boxes now. When the sequel to Call Me By Your Name hits theaters, it will do so featuring both Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer, its original star-crossed lovers. This news comes by way of Italian...

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Mar 26th 2020 Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker...

Mar 26th 2020 Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker...

E-sports players are reaching huge audiences from their homes; conventional-sports bosses want to do the same International Mar 25th 2020 Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to...

Mar 23rd 2020 Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For more coverage, see...

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Mar 12th 2020 ROME AND SEOUL GIOVAMBATTISTA PRESTI, a psychologist at the Kore University of Enna in Sicily, is an adviser to the Policlinico, Milan’s oldest hospital, which is at the centre of Italy’s covid-19 epidemic. Of great concern...

Mar 5th 2020 AUSTIN AND MCALLEN, TEXAS, AND REYNOSA, MEXICO IN AMERICA ABORTION is a battleground. Pro-lifers urge the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade, its convoluted ruling in 1973 that made abortion legal in all states. Pro-choice...

Feb 27th 2020 LAST DECEMBER a British employment tribunal ruled that the Centre for Global Development, a think-tank, had acted legally when it did not renew Maya Forstater’s contract because she had tweeted that a person’s biological sex is...

Feb 22nd 2020 GOMA AND KAMPALA “THERE ARE so many crises in Congo.” Gervais Folefack, who co-ordinates the emergency programmes run by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has mastered the art of the...

Feb 15th 2020 NEW YORK, PARIS, SHANGHAI AND TOKYO TO GLIMPSE THE impact of the new coronavirus on global businesses, consider Apple. Such is the American tech titan’s reliance on the Chinese mainland for parts and assembly that United...