Reading groupScience fiction booksHarry Harrison’s sci-fi novel about Earth on the edge of disaster is both bracing and cathartic as Covid-19 continues to spread Society has broken down. The weather’s weird. The air is foul with pollution. No one can travel anywhere. The government is unaccountable, brutal, corrupt, criminal. The police spend their time beating up protestors while ignoring most crimes because that uses up too many resources. People keep coming up with really crappy vegan alternatives to meat.

TV 'The Handmaid's Tale' Season 4 had "longer, more complicated" stories about Emily and Moira to tell, but the coronavirus pandemic made them change all of their plans. Find out why tough cuts were made to the show's newest season here. Published on May 4, 2021 3 min read The Handmaid’s Tale Season 4 was filmed during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The show had already started filming when the pandemic shut down production.

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Riley Keough and her husband, Ben Smith-Petersen, are bringing their love to the big screen. The 33-year-old actress revealed Thursday's episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers how her husband scored a cameo in Daisy Jones & The Six. “Well, the cameo came about because I have to have intercourse,” Riley said, adding, "With a random person on the show." Riley said the producers thought “it would be so funny” if they cast her husband -- and he agreed.

The ObserverTaiwanTaiwan elects Lai Ching-te, from incumbent pro-sovereignty party, as presidentLai’s Democratic Progressive party wins unprecedented third term in result likely to anger China Taiwan has voted for Lai Ching-te to be its next president, ushering in a historic third term in power for the pro-sovereignty Democratic Progressive party (DPP), in a result that will anger Beijing and heighten tensions across the Taiwan strait. The victory of Lai, who since 2020 had served as vice-president to Tsai Ing-wen, marks the continuation of a government that promoted a sovereign Taiwan and a national identity separate to China, and oversaw some of the deepest cross-strait tensions in decades as Beijing pushed towards its goal of annexation.