The floods in Sylhet division have broken all previous records of the country. Upstream slopes of this section 80 percent of the area is now under water. Of this, 90 percent area of Sunamganj has been submerged. The water is now everywhere except for some high places, hilly areas and
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Leo Marx, 102, Dies; Studied Conflict of Nature and Tradition in America
He discovered solutions in “the area of tradition the place literature, normal concepts and sure merchandise of the collective creativeness — we might name them ‘cultural symbols’ — meet.” The railroad was essentially the most distinguished of those symbols; “the startling shriek of the prepare whistle,” he wrote, turned to
'Household Squares' Takes on the Pandemic, Zoom and Human Nature
“I simply need to say, I’m so joyful that Mother didn’t die of Covid,” says Bobby Price (Henry Winkler) in “Household Squares,” a movie advised by FaceTime, Zoom and telephone calls instantly earlier than and after the loss of life of the Price household matriarch, Mabel (June Squibb). {That a}
After a Cataclysm, the Nature Lovers in ‘Harrow’ Struggle to Stay Sane
After the coming apocalypse, when prizes are handed out for the best novels that presaged our end, Joy Williams’s new one, “Harrow,” will be a contender in the experimental category. Our mutant overlord critics will ask about it, squatting around a pixelated campfire, wearing goggles, sucking the marrow from squirrel
This Theater Brings Nature Right Into the Drama
BUSSANG, France — Hundreds of productions have been performed at the Théâtre du Peuple, a 126-year-old playhouse in this village 45 miles from the border with Germany. Yet no matter how good the actors, they are often upstaged by the theater’s unusual backdrop: a steep forest, visible right behind the