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Time of India
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
My Oxford Year OTT Release Date: When and where to watch Sofia Carson and Corey Mylchreest's romantic film
My Oxford Year OTT Release Date: Get ready for a feel-good love story set against the dreamy backdrop of Oxford! This upcoming romantic starring Sofia Carson and Corey Mylchreest is all set to release on August 1, 2025, on Netflix. If you're into emotional rollercoasters, heartwarming romance, and charming British vibes, this one should definitely be on your watchlist. What's the story about? The film follows Anna, an ambitious American woman who wins a scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, a childhood dream come true. But just as her path seems perfectly set, she meets Jamie, a witty and mysterious local. One encounter turns into a life-changing relationship, as the two characters help each other grow in unexpected ways. Sofia Carson and Corey Mylchreest lead the way You might know Sofia Carson from Purple Hearts, and Corey Mylchreest from Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. Their on-screen chemistry is said to be one of the highlights of My Oxford Year. The film's director, Iain Morris, known for creating The Inbetweeners, blends romance with light-hearted comedy. Carson not only stars in the film but also serves as an executive producer. She describes the film as 'a timeless, heartbreaking, sweeping romance, grounded in laughter.' Who else is part of the cast? The movie features a solid supporting cast, including: Dougray Scott (Crime) Catherine McCormack (Braveheart) Harry Trevaldwyn (How to Train Your Dragon) Esmé Kingdom, Nikhil Parmar, Poppy Gilbert, Romina Cocca, Yadier Fernández, Nia Anisah, and Hugh Coles (Baby Reindeer) My Oxford Year is adapted from the novel by Julia Whelan, which itself was inspired by an original screenplay by Allison Burnett. If you're a fan of emotional love stories like Me Before You or The Fault in Our Stars, this movie will feel like home. As Corey Mylchreest puts it: 'You can expect some laughs, a lot of love, maybe some sadness, a couple of surprises, but mainly two very human characters and their amazing circle of people.' Alongside Carson, the film is produced by a strong team including Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of Temple Hill Entertainment, the studio behind hits like Twilight and The Fault in Our Stars. With such a track record, it's safe to say My Oxford Year is in good hands. Class is in session, and love is on the syllabus.
Indianapolis Star
08-05-2025
- Health
- Indianapolis Star
John Green connects deadly disease to Stetson hats, svelte figures and weighted vests
Who knew tuberculosis had a connection to the development of the cowboy hat or the U.S. military or women's dress sizes? John Green; that's who. And the author was on 'The Daily Show' on May 7 spreading the knowledge in his campaign to end the world's most deadly infectious disease. The curable disease, caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, resulted in 1.25 million deaths in 2023, according to the Word Health Organization. 'I'm super opposed to tuberculosis,' he told host Desi Lydic. 'I'm a little confused why everyone else isn't. It feels like it should be kind of a universally-held opinion.' The young adult genre ('The Fault in Our Stars,' 'Turtles All the Way Down') and social media (Vlogbrothers YouTube channel) star was promoting his New York Times bestseller 'Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection,' published in March. Green shared how tuberculosis tied into the development of the modern-day American cowboy hat. The maker of the Stetson had moved from New Jersey to the West to recover from tuberculosis, he said. The host challenged him to connect the disease to other trends and events. Was there a connection to Navy fighter jets falling into the water, she asked, referencing the second time in just over a week that a U.S. Navy fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier was lost in the Red Sea. President Harry S. Truman had requested the federal government budget $200,000 to fund the development of Isoniazid, one of the most critical tuberculosis drugs, Green responded. 'If it weren't for Harry Truman sending federal money, federal government taxpayer money, to fund the treatment of tuberculosis, we wouldn't have that amazing drug,' he said. How about the popularity of weighted vests? 'Not even a challenge,' he answered. 'It's trying to shrink your body. It's trying to make you smaller. And that is a result, partly of this tubercular beauty standard. When we romanticized tuberculosis, in the 18th and 19th centuries, we began to associate beauty with very frail, small bodies. So attempts to shrink the female body are at least in part a response to this tuberculosis beauty standard that goes back to the 19th century.' John Green: Best-selling author writes a love letter to the Indianapolis 500 Green, an Indianapolis resident, talked about a 2019 trip to Sierra Leone, where he got to know a youth who was trying to recover from drug-resistant tuberculosis and learned how widespread the disease was. Over the next five years, he 'fell in hate' with the disease, and the book came about from wanting to tell 'his ultimate story of survival, and also wanting to tell the story of the fact that this disease is not history; it's present,' the writer told Lydic. 'It's the deadliest infectious disease in the world, and unfortunately, as a direct result of decisions made by our government, that number is going to go up instead of going down,' Green said. 'It's been going down for the last 20 years, which is something we can be really proud of. "The U.S. has long been the most generous funder of TB response, but that's changing with the dismantling of USAID; and as a direct result, I think the estimates are that within two years, we might see two million people dying instead of over a million.' That doesn't have to be, he said. 'We can achieve cure rates of over 95%. We do that in the United States, and we should be doing it globally. And the fact that we aren't really is kind of a mark of shame on humanity.' 'Turtles All the Way Down': John Green's novel is now a movie, and the ebook is on sale. How to get it 'We know how to live in a world without TB. You search for cases, you treat every case you find, and you offer preventative therapy to folks who are near those cases. And that's how we eliminated TB in the U.S.; or nearly eliminated it. That's how we've nearly eliminated TB in many countries around the world. But that takes funding. And right now, if you think of the history of tuberculosis as a long staircase where we learn more and learn better tools and have better tools to fight the disease, right now we have the tools; we just don't have the political will. So right now, unfortunately, we've fallen down the staircase.' Green sounded hopeful, though. 'But it's easy to feel like this is the end of history. I feel that way all the time, to be honest with you. But it's not the end of history. This is the middle of the story, not the end of the story, and it falls to us to write a better end. And I really believe we can do that together. I really believe that I will live to see a world without tuberculosis.'
Indianapolis Star
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indianapolis Star
John Green writes a love letter to the Indianapolis 500
One of Indianapolis' most popular writers and one of the city's most beloved traditions are uniting this year. John Green, author of "Everything is Tuberculosis" and "The Fault in Our Stars," has rolled his admiration of the Indy 500 into a 250-word essay that celebrates what the Circle City loves about the month of May: the community that forms throughout a blossoming spring full of tailgating reunions, discussions about IndyCar drivers and bike rides to Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The essay's text, and Green's reading of it, will be relayed across YouTube, social media, an IndyStar ad and more starting May 1: John Green's essay on the Indianapolis 500 and month of May "It's spring in Indianapolis. Everything's in bloom, and the air is bright with birdsong and re-emerging life. 'Spring is like a perhaps hand coming carefully out of nowhere,' ee cummings wrote, and after a long winter, the burst of spring indeed astonishes. But you can hear something else downtown, or rumbling along the banks of the White River: The Greatest Spectacle in Racing is coming. They call the Indianapolis Motor Speedway the Cathedral of Speed, and for me and 400,000 annual pilgrims like me, that distant roar we hear brings a smile that lasts the whole month of May. The Indy 500 is not just a race — it's community. For me, it means long bike rides along our city's beautiful canal paths down to the Speedway. For others, it means tailgating with friends and family, some of whom you only see once a year. It means backpack coolers and headphones and decades-long arguments over who's the greatest driver of all time. But the Indy 500 is also a car race, and the best one in the world — a race so thrilling and wondrous that it brings together more people than any other sporting event on Earth. This is Indianapolis. All around town, the checkered flags are out. Porch parties abound, and everyone's invited. And this is the Indy 500, where we see what humans can accomplish in concert with twin turbocharged V-6 engines and Firestone tires. This is the Brickyard, where they've been racing since before any of us were born. This is Speed City. Welcome to May." Green, who has lived in Indiana since 2007, has long documented his love for the Indy 500. In a 2019 episode of his " Anthropocene Reviewed" podcast, he discussed humanity's progress as it relates to Indy 500 race cars before sharing his own race day routine. "I think about none of this on race day — I am not thinking about the ever-diminishing distinction between humans and their machines, or about the anthropocene's accelerating rate of change, or anything. I am, instead, merely happy," Green said in the podcast. "My best friend Chris calls it Christmas for Grown-Ups." Green brought up the race again in his 2021 book " The Anthropocene Reviewed," which contains essays about multiple topics he first talked about on the podcast. The author previously told IndyStar that he reworked his piece on the 500 during the pandemic as a way to process the new normal. 'I wanted to write about my experience of suddenly being unable to go to the race, and how it felt to go through all the same rituals that I always go through on that Sunday, and to bike to the race as I always do and to arrive at an empty Speedway, with the gates locked shut," he said in 2021.
Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Why ‘Fault in Our Stars' author John Green is obsessed with tuberculosis
Several years after an encounter that turned him into a self-professed tuberculosis nerd, John Green's son came home from school with a question. Did the best-selling author realise that the disease played a small role in the onset of the First World War? 'I was like respectfully, if that were true I would already know,' said Green, who is best known for young adult novels such as 'The Fault in Our Stars'. 'But I looked it up, and he was so totally right.' It turned out that three of the assassins who plotted Archduke Franz Ferdinand's death – a crucial if chaotic moment in the build-up to war – were suffering from tuberculosis (TB). Historians have posited that they were prepared to die for their cause partly because they knew already that their days were numbered. The tidbit is one of Green's favourites, but as his obsession with TB has grown, so too has his collection of anecdotes. Did you know that Ringo Starr first discovered percussion while recovering from TB in a sanatorium? Or that cowboy hats were created for the midwest sun after a hat-maker in the 1850s moved in search of cleaner air for his struggling lungs? 'I think we do underestimate the extent to which, not just tuberculosis but disease in general, has shaped human history,' said Green. 'Think of how different the world could be if Alexander the Great hadn't died of typhoid or malaria when he was still a young man… [or if] Louis XVI's son hadn't died of tuberculosis as the French Revolution was beginning.' But while the intriguing history of the world's deadliest infection may have informed the title of Green's latest book, 'Everything is Tuberculosis', it was never the driving force for writing. Instead, the story began with Henry Reider, an 'uncommonly charismatic' patient in Sierra Leone. The pair first met in 2019. Green was in the west African country on a trip related to maternal mortality when he visited a TB hospital – at the time, he had no idea that the curable disease still kills upwards of 1.2 million people every year, and infects another 10 million. 'I thought that TB was a disease of 19th century poets, not a disease of the present,' Green said, in his first interview with a British newspaper about the new book. 'Then I met this kid who looked to be about the same age as my son, who was nine at the time, and who had the same name as my son, Henry.' But as Green toured the Lakka Government Hospital with Reider, he was in for a series of shocks. Henry Reider was not nine but 17 – he'd been stunted from severe malnutrition in childhood – and his experience with TB was 'devastating'. Reider's father, distrustful of the health care system, had halted his son's treatment part way through a months-long course of drugs, allowing the infection to develop drug-resistance. Later, when the usual toxic cocktails of drugs failed him, bedaquiline – a safer treatment regimen that involves few tablets over a shorter period – was deemed too expensive. 'It was infuriating to me. You or I would receive the kind of personalised, tailored treatment that Henry was told was unaffordable without hesitation or question,' said Green. 'Meeting Henry and spending that afternoon with him really reshaped my understanding of illness.' Reider's story forms the backbone of 'Everything is Tuberculosis', where Green argues that injustice is behind the continued presence of TB – a bacterial pathogen formally identified in 1882, but which has been killing people for centuries longer. Although the airborne disease can infect anyone, today it is largely a disease of poverty. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 1.25 million people died from TB in 2023 – 81 per cent of fatalities were in south Asia and Africa, compared to just 1.4 per cent in Europe. This has impacted everything from investment in vaccine and drug development, to the accessibility of expensive treatments and specialist doctors for patients. But it wasn't until Green spoke to a renowned TB doctor that the implications hit him: even with today's imperfect tools and knowledge gaps, the disease could be wiped out.. 'I asked him, how many people would die of tuberculosis if everyone had the kind of health care that I have? And he said: 'none, zero'. And that shocked me, it means that every death from tuberculosis is optional.' Drawing attention to this reality felt essential for Green. Still, he was unsure how the book would land. 'Every time I try to market the book, I feel almost apologetic – like I have to explain that it's a non fiction book about tuberculosis,' he said. '[But] it feels like a natural progression, in the sense that I've been interested in illness for a long time… I wrote about cancer in 'The Fault in Our Stars', I wrote about OCD in 'Turtles All the Way Down'. And you know, this is also a book about a smart teenager who loves poetry.' He hardly needed to be concerned. The response has been 'wildly unexpected': since it was published last month, 'Tuberculosis is Everything' has topped the New York Times bestseller list for non-fiction for a fortnight, while Green's US book tour sold out within days. Green isn't entirely sure how he captured the public imagination, but he wonders if part of the explanation lies in the timing. The book was published after Donald Trump's administration slashed the foreign aid budget and closed the USAID agency – an unprecedented move with huge ramifications for global health, including the fight against tuberculosis. The US contributed roughly half of all international donor funding for TB last year, according to the WHO, which last month warned that efforts to curb the disease are now 'in peril' as health workers funded by USAID have been laid off, testing and surveillance services halted, drug development paused and access to treatment curtailed for millions. 'I never imagined that the cuts under the Trump administration would be this severe, and that they would lead to this scale of mass death. I was a little naive, I think,' said Green. 'It is absolutely devastating… it's a massive failure of global resource allocation, and a mark of shame on all of us.' He added that it is disappointing to see the UK also reduce its aid budget, from 0.5 per cent of gross national income to 0.3 per cent in 2027. In West Africa, Reider has recovered from TB, completed exams at the University of Sierra Leone, and launched a YouTube vlog. But Green fears for other patients – Reider's hospital is among those hit by the US aid cuts, and TB is not the only disease affected. 'A friend in Sierra Leone who has HIV called me and said: 'Look, there's two weeks left of medication, and after that they don't know'. I said Sarah [Green's wife] and I will make sure you and your mom have access to HIV medicine, of course. And he said: 'Thank you, but what about everyone else? 'The truth is, there is no way for individuals and philanthropy to set up and act at the scale that governments are acting. And so that question – 'what about everyone else?' – is a question that haunts me. I think it should haunt us all.' But although Green is less optimistic about the promise of eliminating TB than when he finished writing the book, he has retained a sense of hope that the outlook can change – especially because cheaper diagnostics, better treatments and promising vaccine candidates are in the pipeline. 'If you think of the fight against tuberculosis as a very long staircase, we've walked a long way up that staircase since Hippocrates told his students not even to bother treating tuberculosis, because it would make them look like bad healers,' said Green. 'In the last eight weeks, we've fallen down the staircase and that's devastating. But when you fall down a staircase, you get up and start walking up the staircase again.' Protect yourself and your family by learning more about Global Health Security Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Telegraph
25-04-2025
- Health
- Telegraph
Why ‘Fault in Our Stars' author John Green is obsessed with tuberculosis
Several years after an encounter that turned him into a self-professed tuberculosis nerd, John Green's son came home from school with a question. Did the best-selling author realise that the disease played a small role in the onset of the First World War? 'I was like respectfully, if that were true I would already know,' said Green, who is best known for young adult novels such as 'The Fault in Our Stars'. 'But I looked it up, and he was so totally right.' It turned out that three of the assassins who plotted Archduke Franz Ferdinand's death – a crucial if chaotic moment in the build-up to war – were suffering from tuberculosis (TB). Historians have posited that they were prepared to die for their cause partly because they knew already that their days were numbered. The tidbit is one of Green's favourites, but as his obsession with TB has grown, so too has his collection of anecdotes. Did you know that Ringo Starr first discovered percussion while recovering from TB in a sanatorium? Or that cowboy hats were created for the midwest sun after a hat-maker in the 1850s moved in search of cleaner air for his struggling lungs? 'I think we do underestimate the extent to which, not just tuberculosis but disease in general, has shaped human history,' said Green. 'Think of how different the world could be if Alexander the Great hadn't died of typhoid or malaria when he was still a young man… [or if] Louis XVI's son hadn't died of tuberculosis as the French Revolution was beginning.' But while the intriguing history of the world's deadliest infection may have informed the title of Green's latest book, 'Everything is Tuberculosis', it was never the driving force for writing. View this post on Instagram A post shared by John Green (@johngreenwritesbooks) Instead, the story began with Henry Reider, an 'uncommonly charismatic' patient in Sierra Leone. The pair first met in 2019. Green was in the west African country on a trip related to maternal mortality when he visited a TB hospital – at the time, he had no idea that the curable disease still kills upwards of 1.2 million people every year, and infects another 10 million. 'I thought that TB was a disease of 19th century poets, not a disease of the present,' Green said, in his first interview with a British newspaper about the new book. 'Then I met this kid who looked to be about the same age as my son, who was nine at the time, and who had the same name as my son, Henry.' But as Green toured the Lakka Government Hospital with Reider, he was in for a series of shocks. Henry Reider was not nine but 17 – he'd been stunted from severe malnutrition in childhood – and his experience with TB was 'devastating'. Reider's father, distrustful of the health care system, had halted his son's treatment part way through a months-long course of drugs, allowing the infection to develop drug-resistance. Later, when the usual toxic cocktails of drugs failed him, bedaquiline – a safer treatment regimen that involves few tablets over a shorter period – was deemed too expensive. 'It was infuriating to me. You or I would receive the kind of personalised, tailored treatment that Henry was told was unaffordable without hesitation or question,' said Green. 'Meeting Henry and spending that afternoon with him really reshaped my understanding of illness.' Reider's story forms the backbone of 'Everything is Tuberculosis', where Green argues that injustice is behind the continued presence of TB – a bacterial pathogen formally identified in 1882, but which has been killing people for centuries longer. Although the airborne disease can infect anyone, today it is largely a disease of poverty. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 1.25 million people died from TB in 2023 – 81 per cent of fatalities were in south Asia and Africa, compared to just 1.4 per cent in Europe. This has impacted everything from investment in vaccine and drug development, to the accessibility of expensive treatments and specialist doctors for patients. But it wasn't until Green spoke to a renowned TB doctor that the implications hit him: even with today's imperfect tools and knowledge gaps, the disease could be wiped out.. 'I asked him, how many people would die of tuberculosis if everyone had the kind of health care that I have? And he said: 'none, zero'. And that shocked me, it means that every death from tuberculosis is optional.' Drawing attention to this reality felt essential for Green. Still, he was unsure how the book would land. 'Every time I try to market the book, I feel almost apologetic – like I have to explain that it's a non fiction book about tuberculosis,' he said. '[But] it feels like a natural progression, in the sense that I've been interested in illness for a long time… I wrote about cancer in 'The Fault in Our Stars', I wrote about OCD in 'Turtles All the Way Down'. And you know, this is also a book about a smart teenager who loves poetry.' He hardly needed to be concerned. The response has been 'wildly unexpected': since it was published last month, 'Tuberculosis is Everything' has topped the New York Times bestseller list for non-fiction for a fortnight, while Green's US book tour sold out within days. Green isn't entirely sure how he captured the public imagination, but he wonders if part of the explanation lies in the timing. The book was published after Donald Trump's administration slashed the foreign aid budget and closed the USAID agency – an unprecedented move with huge ramifications for global health, including the fight against tuberculosis. The US contributed roughly half of all international donor funding for TB last year, according to the WHO, which last month warned that efforts to curb the disease are now 'in peril' as health workers funded by USAID have been laid off, testing and surveillance services halted, drug development paused and access to treatment curtailed for millions. 'I never imagined that the cuts under the Trump administration would be this severe, and that they would lead to this scale of mass death. I was a little naive, I think,' said Green. 'It is absolutely devastating… it's a massive failure of global resource allocation, and a mark of shame on all of us.' He added that it is disappointing to see the UK also reduce its aid budget, from 0.5 per cent of gross national income to 0.3 per cent in 2027. In West Africa, Reider has recovered from TB, completed exams at the University of Sierra Leone, and launched a YouTube vlog. But Green fears for other patients – Reider's hospital is among those hit by the US aid cuts, and TB is not the only disease affected. 'A friend in Sierra Leone who has HIV called me and said: 'Look, there's two weeks left of medication, and after that they don't know'. I said Sarah [Green's wife] and I will make sure you and your mom have access to HIV medicine, of course. And he said: 'Thank you, but what about everyone else? 'The truth is, there is no way for individuals and philanthropy to set up and act at the scale that governments are acting. And so that question – 'what about everyone else?' – is a question that haunts me. I think it should haunt us all.' But although Green is less optimistic about the promise of eliminating TB than when he finished writing the book, he has retained a sense of hope that the outlook can change – especially because cheaper diagnostics, better treatments and promising vaccine candidates are in the pipeline. 'If you think of the fight against tuberculosis as a very long staircase, we've walked a long way up that staircase since Hippocrates told his students not even to bother treating tuberculosis, because it would make them look like bad healers,' said Green. 'In the last eight weeks, we've fallen down the staircase and that's devastating. But when you fall down a staircase, you get up and start walking up the staircase again.'
