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French writer Édouard Louis made his debut with The End of Eddy (2017), a novel drawn from his torrid experience of growing up gay in a working-class village in northern France. Yet more distressing was his next novel, History of Violence (2018), about his rape at gunpoint by a stranger he took to bed after a chance meeting on the street in Paris. Louis addressed the nightmarish subject with extreme sophistication: where The End of Eddy is episodically anecdote-driven, History of Violence unfolds as the narrator, Édouard,…

Suzanne Wrack argues that for women the mere act of playing football is a feminist one, a form of activism. Her book begins as a historical survey, but ends as a manifesto.Wrack is women’s football correspondent for the Guardian and Observer. She tracks the rise of the game through the suffrage movement and the first world war, when the flow of women into workplaces carried them on to football pitches – at their peak, the famous Dick, Kerr Ladies FC attracted a crowd of 53,000. It was partly this success, and the…

Photo by Rich Lam/Getty Images Hilary Swank is not only a two-time Oscar-winner, but her reputation for rescuing dogs is apparently so prolific that lost pooches simply come to her now. That is what appeared to be the case, anyway, when a one-in-a-million turn of events brought a heartbroken dog owner looking for her dachshund in Albany, New York, to the set of a movie. Chelsea Blackwell’s dog, Blue, disappeared Monday, setting off a search from the upset owner, Associated Press reported. But when Blackwell…

Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)In new research this week, an experimental treatment seems to have helped beat back a woman’s advanced pancreatic cancer. The woman’s tumors have since substantially shrunk in size and she has remained in stable health a year after the treatment—results that hold promise for a new approach to these kinds of often fatal cancers.The treatment is a form of immunotherapy, a recently developed method of fighting cancer. The premise is simple enough: teach the immune system to kill cancer cells…

The iPhone SOS feature saved a woman’s life and it can save yours too. Don’t delay it. Know how to activate it on your iPhone 13, iPhone 12 and other supported Apple smartphones. A spine-chilling incident came to light recently. A US-based woman’s life was in danger when her iPhone played a hero’s role. Yes, the iPhone saved her life. Virginia Beach resident Kelli Worst almost fell victim to a heinous crime, but the iPhone SOS feature quite literally saved her…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Toronto & GTA Ontario Madison Chard, 29, of Port Hope, has been missing since April 19, 2022. Photo by Madison Chard /Instagram Article content Where’s Madi? Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content It’s a question many in her hometown of Port Hope have been asking for weeks. “She will be missing 30 days Thursday,” said Port Hope Police Insp. Katie Andrews. “Her family and friends are…