Mariana

Picks of the weekHear Me OutWidely available, episodes weeklyThis chatty theatre podcast from actor Lucy Eaton gives you a snippet of multiple stars’ dramatic talent. They each pick a favourite speech, then act it out, amid a personal chat that gives it a feel of Desert Island Discs for the stage. The first episode of the latest series hears Mark Gatiss perform Hamlet’s “yearning” and “angry” “speak the speech” soliloquy, as used in Jack Thorne’s The Motive and the Cue. Alexi DugginsDead RiverWidely available, episodes…

The name Moog is basically synonymous with bass. The company has pumped out countless synths over the years from the iconic Minimoog Model D, to foot-operated Taurus, to the modern-classic Sub Phatty that deliver incredible low-end. Now its plumbing those depths even further, but in plug-in form, with the Mariana, which obviously gets its name from the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth.The architecture of Mariana is different from almost any other Moog out there, in physical or virtual form. It's a dual-layer…

When Puerto Rico started bankruptcy proceedings in 2016, the US island territory became McKinsey’s newest client. The company was hired to advise a federally appointed oversight board and, according to a report in New York magazine, set about creating an “aspirational vision” for Puerto Rico, appointing a 31-year-old Harvard graduate as the project’s senior full-time consultant. A 2016 Columbia graduate assisted with financial calculations and job cuts (euphemistically termed “rightsizing measures”), and a recent Yale…

Film: A Man called OttoCast: Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Cameron Britton, Kailey Hyman, Mike Birbiglia, Elle ChapmanDirector: Marc ForsterRating: 3/5Runtime: 126 min A remake of the 2015 Oscar-nominated Swedish hit `A Man Called Ove` by Hannes Holm, based on a book of the same name with an adapted screenplay by David Magee, this film basically gives free rein to co-producer and starring actor Tom Hanks to stamp his considerable acting authority all over it. The film tackles…

In 2017, Things We Lost in the Fire by Argentinian writer Mariana Enríquez introduced a compelling new voice to English readers. Tough-edged and tightly honed, her short stories inhabited the space between high gothic horror and cruel sociopolitical reality. At its best, her writing had a cool, brutal economy: We moved. My brother still went crazy. He killed himself at twenty-two. I was the one who identified his ruined body … He didn’t leave a note. He told me his dreams were always about Adela. In his dreams, our…

Mariana Enríquez, 48, lives in Buenos Aires. She is the author of nine books, including two short story collections, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Things We Lost in the Fire, both translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell. In 2019 Enríquez won Spain’s Premio Herralde, previously awarded to Javier Marías and Roberto Bolaño, for Our Share of Night, her first novel to be translated into English, also by McDowell. It follows a father and son whose ability to commune with the dead draws them into a bloodthirsty cult in…

Water input to the mantle at the Mariana Trench subduction zone, located at the center of this global map of subduction zones, may have been previously underestimated. Credit: Background image by USGS, overlay bathymetry figure by Chen et al., Public Domain On the surface, subduction zones manifest as oceanic trenches, the deepest of which is the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. One notable feature of many trenches is…

University of Guam archaeologist Michael Carson at the 2013 excavation of Sanhalom, near the House of Taga, on the island of Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands. The excavation uncovered an octopus lure artifact from a layer that Carson has since carbon dated to 1500–1100 B.C., making it the oldest known artifact of its kind in the world. Credit: Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam An archaeological study…

Schematic plot illustrating the cross section of typical settings for serpentinite mud volcanoes in Mariana forearc. Credit: IOCAS A research team led by Prof. Sun Weidong from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) has revealed the fluid-rock interactions at a shallow subduction zone in the Mariana forearc.…