Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty ImagesIllinois This article is more than 1 year oldCaterpillar worker’s grisly foundry death blamed on training and work conditionsThis article is more than 1 year oldWorkers say conditions at Illinois facility haven’t changed since Steven Dierkes was incinerated in pot of molten iron in June
Just nine days into his new job at Caterpillar’s foundry in Mapleton, Illinois, Steven Dierkes, a 39-year-old father of three, fell into an 11ft-deep pot of molten iron and was incinerated. Read More...
Julian BarnesInterview‘I didn’t think it was possible to be a novelist’: Julian Barnes on literature, loss – and his late friend Martin AmisLisa AllardiceThe Booker winning author talks about how his most recent work was inspired by Hilary Mantel, and the way the books world has changed since his debut was published more than 40 years ago
Too many people have been dying lately,” Julian Barnes reflects over the phone from his home in north London. Read More...
ParamoreThe singer-songwriter’s first solo album, Petals for Armor, was born out of therapy, a failed marriage and the turbulent relationship with her bandmates. What has it taught her about herself?
When Hayley Williams was nine, her dad often took her go-karting at Ultimate Fun World in Mississippi. The harder she pressed the accelerator, the more it alleviated her growing pains. She would spend all day driving until she forgot about the ache. Read More...
