Vladimir author Julia May Jonas: ‘We’re imprisoned by our obsessions’ | Fiction

Vladimir author Julia May Jonas: ‘We’re imprisoned by our obsessions’ | Fiction

When we meet in a cafe close to her Brooklyn house, three weeks earlier than the TV adaptation of her debut novel Vladimir hits Netflix, Julia May Jonas is feeling an anticipatory “mix of terror, excitement and dread”. The collection stars Rachel Weisz as a professor in her 50s obsessive about a youthful colleague, Vladimir, performed by Leo Woodall,…

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El Salvador’s Bukele pushes through life sentences in nation that has imprisoned 1% of population

El Salvador’s Bukele pushes through life sentences in nation that has imprisoned 1% of population

SAN SALVADOR — El Salvador’s Congress authorised a constitutional modification pushed ahead by President Nayib Bukele on Tuesday to allow life sentences in a rustic that has imprisoned greater than 1% of its population in its battle in opposition to gangs. The reform was introduced by Bukele’s safety cupboard earlier in the day earlier than…

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