Newspaper report in 1853 got author Solomon Northup’s surname wrong twice, misspelling it as Northrop and Northrup.
The New York Times has printed a correction for misspelling 161 years ago the name of a black man who was sold into slavery and whose memoirs were turned into the Oscar-winning movie 12 Years a Slave.
12 Years A Slave
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Jordan Belfort, who was jailed for 22 months for securities fraud, admits that the Oscar-nominated film based on his memoir had no need to exaggerate the sex and drugs.
The controversial figure whose memoir formed the basis of Leonardo DiCaprio’s unhinged stockbroker in Martin Scorsese’sOscar-nominated black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street has revealed his debauched life of sex and drugs was «even worse» than shown in the film.
In her book «Animal Wise,» Virginia Morell gets inside our fellow creatures’ heads.
Animals like this Belgian Malois «aren’t just robots—they truly are living, sentient beings,» says the author.
What do animals think and feel? This question, which has long intrigued science writer and author Virginia Morell, is explored in her new book Animal Wise.
Partly inspired by her 2008 National Geographic magazine article, «Animal Minds,» the book was just named a finalist for the 2013 L.A. Times Book Prize in Science and Technology.
From ants that teach, to earthworms that make decisions, to rats that love to be tickled, Morell aims to reshape our understanding of animals and their emotions. For the book, she shadowed several innovative scientists investigating the animal psyche, focusing on well-known species such as dolphins and the domestic dog.
Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,” will be published in the United States on Aug. 12, Alfred A. Knopf has announced. The novel was an enormous hit in Japan in April, where it sold more than a million copies in its first week, according to Knopf.
“The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.”
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Kate Chopin, born Katherine O’Flaherty (February 8, 1850 — August 22, 1904), was an American author of short stories and novels. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century.
Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
Cheese on toast, curry or a pint of bitter … if you’ve been abroad, what food and drink is first on your list when you get home?
Biting into a generous cheesy wedge feels like home.’ Photograph: Rex Features
I’m sitting in Changi airport in Singapore, thinking about food. Having bulldozed my way through the city’s hawker markets on a stopover from Australia, my mind is on my next meal. Not the foil-wrapped tray that awaits me, but a proper taste of home.
I’ve been away from the UK for 15 months, and in that time been asked what I miss, crave and covet. A greasy spoon fry-up, a bacon sandwich, Sunday lunch or a binge of Monster Munch and the Beeb? It’s like being asked to pick my favourite song. Home is London. It’s Yorkshire and Lancashire, too. All play parts in my life and shape my tastes. Choosing between them is too loaded for me to consider on an empty stomach, so rather than a homecoming meal, I am preparing for a homecoming food journey.
Photograph by Caruso Furyk, National Geographic Your Shot
Umbrellas shade novice monks at a pagoda in Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma). «It was a fine day, with sunny weather,» writes Caruso Furyk, who submitted this picture to our Your Shot community.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL NICHOLS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
The new ivory rules ban the commercial import of African elephant ivory.
New restrictions on the ivory trade designed to create «a near complete ban» on the commercial sale of African elephant ivory in the U.S. were announced Tuesday by the Obama Administration.
Elephants and rhinos have taken center stage in global coverage of illegal wildlife trafficking, and the ivory restrictions are a cornerstone of the administration’s new plan. (Read » Blood Ivory» in National Geographic magazine.)