In the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, five gaunt young women — strangers to each other — presented at a Manhattan hospital with the same symptoms: their throats were ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Sicilian Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa and author of the great reactionary novel The Leopard, had a ...

Jane Sheldon is remarkably calm for someone about to choke. The singer revisits her sheet music before embarking on what composer Damien Ricketson describes as the "choking cadenza". Loading "Jane ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A new opera by Damien Ricketson and Adena Jacobs exploring involuntary vocal sounds of the female voice ...

In a book called Trauma at Home: After 9/11, American writer Judith Greenberg wrote about five teenage girls who presented separately at a Manhattan hospital complaining that they couldn’t swallow.

A hilarious video of a dog howling has gone viral on TikTok. The clip was shared from the TikTok account @loveyoutojupiter and has garnered 3.1 million views since it was posted on June 11. A message ...