#rabbit-hole

#rabbit-hole

In his epic new romance, Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style, author Paul Rudnick celebrates a pair of 18-year-olds falling in love at Yale University and follows them across an arc of gay history from New York to Hollywood to Paris and beyond.Like all the writer's work, it's non-stop incisive and insightful, and a rare combination of achingly funny and achingly tender.

My earliest reading memory My mother always read to me as a child and one of our favourite books was Love You Forever by Robert Munsch.I remember she was very moved by that story and what it captures: the circle of life as seen by a son and his mother, growing older together.It's a beautiful preparation for what is to come.

This Thanksgiving, as we reflect on family, friends, food and the joy and necessity of communal congregation, I want to take a moment to say thank you for some of the most meaningful time I've spent in my life, time alone in quiet space: my time in libraries.In an era of increased book banning, library defunding and even bomb threats, it seems that now more than ever I ought to make clear how valuable and central libraries have been to my life and success.

Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of four science books, including The Emperor of All Maladies, which won the 2011 Pulitzer prize for general nonfiction and the Guardian first book award.Born in Delhi in 1970 and educated at Stanford, Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar), and Harvard, Mukherjee is now assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University, as well as a cancer physician and researcher.

Looking for some random bit of information on the QuantHockey website, I went down the rabbit hole of exploring the Toronto Maple Leafs draft history.In doing so, I came across a few items that I have to admit made me exclaim "I did not know that!"In the spirit of sharing (and sharing is caring, my dear readers), here is what I discovered about who and how the Toronto Maple Leafs have drafted over the years.

There's never a shortage of goalie discussion when it comes to the Maple Leafs.When Matt Murray went down early in the season, Erik Källgren was called up to fill-in for the time being.That was, until Ilya Samsonov also suffered an injury, which then had Källgren tabbed as the starting goaltender for the foreseeable future.

A convicted Satanist neo-Nazi has admitted a string of fresh crimes committed after being spared jail as a teenager two years ago.Harry Vaughan, from Twickenham, south-west London, was aged 18 when he admitting 14 terror offences and two of possessing indecent images of children.The Old Bailey had heard he developed an interest in right wing extremism, Satanism, the occult, and violence after disappearing down a rabbit hole of the internet from the age of 14. Sentencing him in November 2020, Mr Justice Sweeney acknowledged the A-star student's parents were committed to helping him change for the better.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A pensioner who posted online about the assassination of Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and helped abduct a sheriff has been jailed for more than five years.

Boris Johnson has compared Vladimir Putin to the fat boy in Dickens who wants to make our flesh creep with threats of using nuclear weapons.Speaking about Ukraine at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the former prime minister insisted that the Russian president would not resort to using nuclear weapons, dismissing the idea as nonsense.