Onstuimige, hongerende verliefdheid. Deze zomer zoekt NRC de beste boeken over zomerse liefde. In deze aflevering: The Garden of Eden van Ernest Hemingway.
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The European champions’ squad is falling apart … because of the men’s team’s struggles with financial fair play
The joy of lifting all four trophies in 2025-26 has been shortlived for Barcelona’s women’s team as they face a second consecutive summer exodus.
If winning the Champions League is not enough to retain players then you have to wonder what is. Seven players have left the European champions so far with 19-year-old Renee van Asten from Ajax the only arrival.
This is an extract from our free email about women’s football, Moving the Goalposts. To get the full edition, visit this page and follow the instructions. Moving the Goalposts will be sent out once a week, on Wednesdays, in the close season but will be back on Tuesdays and Thursdays from September.
Continue reading...Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis
The presumption that US elections are legitimate died last week in Washington. It was 237 years old. It did not die of one wound. It died of three, inflicted in a single day, in daylight, on the record. And the country, running to the loudest of them, never examined the one most likely to kill.
In critical care we distinguish the mechanism of death from its cause. The mechanism was a Thursday. The cause was chronic, progressive and untreated.
Robert B Shpiner is a clinical professor of medicine in pulmonary and critical care at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Continue reading...A scholar has an existential crisis while researching the life of a composer in the Russian director’s Italy-set 1983 masterwork
Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1983 film is a mysterious, imagist cine-poem about alienation and belonging, whose title means a yearning not simply for a lost time or lost place but for something, anything, else – with a profound anguished sense that the here-and-now of existence is unsatisfactory.
The movie takes something from the poetry of the director’s father Arseny Tarkovsky, which is quoted in the film. A distinguished Russian scholar is in Italy to research the life of the (fictional) Russian composer Pavel Sosnovsky who is supposed to have travelled there before being overwhelmed by homesick longing and returning to the motherland. His beautiful, flirtatious interpreter is reading Tarkovsky’s poetry in an Italian translation, and the Russian coldly tells her to throw the book away: “Poetry is untranslatable, like the whole of art.” Does he really mean that? This movie is itself, in a way, translated; it is set in Italy and co-written by Tarkovsky with the veteran Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerra, who worked with Fellini and Antonioni. (Like Jean-Claude Carrière, Guerra, who died in 2012, was a prolific collaborator in European cinema.)
Continue reading...Simple spices, fresh coconut and a handful of lentils or nuts is enough to transform leaves normally destined for the compost
Poriyal is south India’s version of sauteed spiced vegetables, and it can be made with just about any vegetable, though green beans or a leafy green such as spinach, moringa or amaranth are most commonly used. The vegetables are fried with onions and spices, a spoon of urad dal is added for texture (if you don’t have urad dal, a handful of cashews makes a delicious alternative), and it’s finished with a grating of fresh coconut. This fragrant, spicy and flavoursome side dish also works brilliantly with the earthy flavour of beetroot leaves, and I like to serve it with boiled beetroot, yoghurt, chapatis or/and rice.
Continue reading...26-year-old looking forward to working with Maresca
‘To stay this long at the club is a dream really,’ he says
Phil Foden has signed a new four-year contract with Manchester City, saying he is looking forward to “trying to win more” at his boyhood club.
The fresh deal, which has an additional 12-month option, ties the 26-year-old to the club until 2030 and he is is relishing working again with Enzo Maresca. The new City manager was Pep Guardiola’s assistant during the 2022-23 treble-winning season.
Continue reading...De stuntman die vorig weekend over de grote tent van de Zwarte Cross werd geschoten en daarbij niet helemaal lekker terechtkwam, is weer een beetje hersteld. Hij is daarom op zoek naar een nieuwe uitdaging en heeft die gevonden: hij gaat aan het raam van een Ryanair-vliegtuig zitten.
“Op een gegeven moment moet je steeds meer doen om nog aan je adrenaline te komen. Na de worp over de tent vorige week in de Achterhoek was ik daarom op zoek naar een nieuwe kick. Die heb ik gevonden: aan het raam van een Ryanair-vliegtuig zitten”, legt een van de stuntmannen uit. “Het is superspannend, want je hebt geen idee wanneer het gebeurt. Meteen na het opstijgen, midden in de lucht of pas bij de landing. Dat zorgt voor een enorme kick.”
Wat er na deze nieuwe stunt gedaan kan worden is nog onbekend. “Eerst maar is kijken of we dit overleven.”
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