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Arizona reels as three of the biggest wildfires in its history ravage state

Extreme weather has contributed to the vast blazes with the pandemic complicating the emergency response For residents of Tucson in southern Arizona, the Santa Catalina Mountains in the Coronado national forest are known as a hub for hiking, mountain biking and other outdoor recreation.

Baddies in books: Captain Blicero in Thomas Pynchons Gravitys Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon

He may be satirical, but Pynchons unsettling, cruel and perverted Nazi is a composite of the fears of the American psyche in 1973 Thomas Pynchons Captain Blicero appears to be an archetypal baddie: a sadomasochistic, sexually indiscriminate pederast Nazi and the source of the mysterious 00000 V-2 rocket that is the white whale of Pynchons

Explained: the art of 'kissing your teeth' | Hugh Muir

Now this really is mainstreaming. Just before he disappeared behind the pips at the end of the Today programme last week John Humphrys declared that he was off to practise "kissing my teeth". I'd like to see that. It would bring a new level of scepticism to his interviews with the great and powerful.

ngeles Santos obituary | Art

The painter ngeles Santos, who has died aged 101, was often referred to as a Spanish Rimbaud. By the age of 19 she had completed her best work. Then she stopped. Unlike the poet, she later took up her art again, though in a completely different style.

Princess Nokia: At my shows, girls can take up space the way men do | Rap

New Yorker Destiny Frasqueri is the radical intersectional feminist who is taking on the rap brotherhood. She talks about gentrification, male domination, her love of riot grrrl and why the music industry is like the devil