Oscars 2021 This article is more than 2 years oldNomadland wins best picture Oscar as Chloé Zhao makes history with best director winThis article is more than 2 years oldFilm about retirees struggling to make ends meet takes the top prize at the Academy Awards, while Chloé Zhao becomes first woman of colour to take the directing prize
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Ny Nourn … ‘The prosecutor didn’t care about the background, the violence, my age.’ Photograph: Talia Herman/The GuardianNourn moved from Cambodia to the US as a child, and ended up in an abusive relationship that led to a man’s murder. After years in prison, she is now a powerful voice for those who face incarceration and deportation
by Anna MooreWhen Ny Nourn entered Central California Women’s Facility, the largest women’s prison in the world, there was every reason to believe she would never walk free on American soil again.
Book of the daySharon OldsReviewA new collection from the TS Eliot prizewinner finds beauty in the outrages visited on ageing bodiesSharon Olds’s inspired new collection alerts us to taboos we barely think about ordinarily. The book is exposed – in more ways than one – and could only have been written by a woman: bold, no longer young and inextinguishably curious. In one poem she reports that her partner mocks her: “My partner says that what I write / about women is self-involved.
Hip-hop This article is more than 3 years oldRapper Lil Marlo dies after being shot in AtlantaThis article is more than 3 years oldInvestigators believe 30-year-old Rudolph ‘Marlo’ Johnson, who was found dead in his car, was the victim of a targeted shooting
The US rapper known as Lil Marlo has died, his record label said Sunday.
Quality Control Music announced the death of Rudolph “Marlo” Johnson in a social media post, saying he will be remembered as “a man of great talent who feared nothing.
Opioids'I could get 500 tablets a month': the ease of buying opiates onlineHelen, 26, ordered codeine from several pharmacies while addicted to the painkiller
UK online pharmacies accused of ‘aggressive’ tactics to sell opiates Helen*, 26, used online pharmacies to buy codeine for about three years, although she no longer has a dependency. She began ordering the painkiller in 2016 after her partner killed himself.
“Someone gave me codeine at work one day when I was unwell and I enjoyed the sensation of it – and then I went to France and at the time you could get strong painkillers over the counter.