Tim Rocket Duarrr

With Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects, Jean-Marc Vallee subtly renovated our palette of pain in the years leading up to this pandemic. It explains why, on learning of his demise, it felt like someone had stalled my sequence of healing. Where were you when you heard? I was, not for the first time, watching a 75-year-old Leonard Cohen conclude his London concert with 'Take This Waltz.' When a friend’s text displayed an article about Jean-Marc Vallée’s death, I paused the YouTube video. Cohen’s eyes were closed, in artful prayer. I frantically googled for confirmation. Maybe it was fake news. Was it Vallé or Vallée? Slowly but surely, celebrity tweets trickled in. A photograph of 58-year-old Vallée emerged on my timeline, a sobering reminder that this was the first photograph of his I had ever come across. Most of us are so used to accepting the vision of those behind the camera that we often let their names evoke an image of how they physically look. I had Vallée down for a curl...

Human rights groups believe China has detained more than one million Uyghurs over the past few years in a large network of what the state calls 're-education camps', and sentenced hundreds of thousands to prison term United States unleashed volley of actions to censure China's treatment of the Uyghur minority, with lawmakers voting to curb trade and issuing new sanctions on Beijing. This is the latest step against the world's top consumer drone maker over human rights abuses. The United States has ramped up pressure on China, with President Joe Biden's administration a day earlier targeting producers of painkillers that contributed to America's addiction crisis. The US Senate unanimously voted to make the United States the first country to ban virtually all imports from China's Xinjiang region over forced labour concerns. "We know it's happening at an alarming, horrific rate with the genocide that we now witness being carried out," said Senator...