books / celebrity / gaming
“Insulting Half The Country”: Disney’s Woke Snow White Tanks Hard In Theaters
boredpanda.com
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Dubravka Ugrešić obituary
Writer in Serbo-Croatian whose mix of stringency and wit, although ignored in her own country, led to her being talked of as a possible Nobel...
theguardian.com
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Katherine Rundell: ‘My party trick is knowing Jane Austen’s Emma off by heart’
The author on Vladimir Nabokov’s footnotes, James Baldwin’s essays and returning to Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety...
theguardian.com
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Curry lands 3-book deal with 1st due out in Sept.
espn.co.uk
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How to help kids fall in love with reading - Fentress Courier
(BPT) - Do you have fond memories of being read stories at bed time or curling up with your favorite books? While reading has been...
communityq.com
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Antisocial: how putting away my phone helped me recover from a heart attack
After being forced to quit social media, political journalist Rafael Behr was able to see its corrosive influence clearly. How can we repair the damage...
theguardian.com
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books / celebrity
80 years later, Glenn Miller's sudden disappearance remains unsolved
npr.org
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books / writing
The Climate Fiction Prize has announced its first shortlist.
The Climate Fiction Prize, a new award that means to acknowledge “the best novel-length work of fiction published in the UK engaging with the climate...
lithub.com
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books / gaming
Kangana Ranaut Reacts To Kapoor Family's Meeting With PM Narendra Modi: 'Film Industry Is Completely Orphaned…'
mashable.com
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The True Story Behind the High School Spying Scandal in 'Spy High'
aol.com
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In pictures: Kolkata celebrates World Poetry day with ‘Kobita Boli’ at Rabindra Sadan
1 10 All photos by Amit Datta Poetry lovers of Kolkata came together to celebrate World Poetry Day at Rabindra Sadan in Kolkata on March 21. The event,...
telegraphindia.com
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Florida schools pull more than 700 books from libraries for 2023-24 academic year
Nov. 13 (UPI) -- More than 700 books were removed from Florida school library shelves for the 2023-24 school year, according to the state Department...
upi.com
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Some Might Say My Teenage Daughter’s Latest Concern Is Responsible. It Has Me a Little Freaked Out.
slate.com
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writing / books
Revelation of Cormac McCarthy’s secret affair with Augusta Britt has shocked the literary world
Warning: Some content may disturb. News broke this week that famed US author Cormac McCarthy, who died in 2023, had a relationship with a teenage girl...
nzherald.co.nz
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Sigh
Where we might have expected a show about the state of the nation, the spy series Slow Horses instead examines the state of the office. “...
nybooks.com
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Why ‘Star Trek’ star LeVar Burton is coming to the Altadena library after the Eaton fire
The long time host of 'Reading Rainbow' will read from his children's book during an event to welcome the community back. When LeVar Burton was...
sgvtribune.com
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Book Review: Spare writing style propels tragic story in 'Flesh'
Istvan, the protagonist in David Szalay’s new novel “Flesh,” is a character who reveals little in his conversations with others. His clipped responses to...
apnews.com
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Why We’re Still Talking About the ‘Trauma Plot’
People will always experience terrible things, and many will want to write about them. Nothing amplifies a popular trend more than a prominent critic making...
theatlantic.com
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After 96 Years, Archaeologists Finally Found the Missing Part of a Legendary Statue
popularmechanics.com
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Children read almost 25% more books last year, UK and Ireland study finds
What Kids Are Reading report found communities on sites such as TikTok helped stimulate interest in reading...
theguardian.com
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Close to Home by Michael Magee review – Belfast struggles
This taut debut about a working-class young man wrestling with masculinity and lack of opportunity feels like a genuinely necessary book...
theguardian.com
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Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla to receive 59th Jnanpith Award for 2024
New Delhi, March 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Renowned Hindi litterateur Vinod Kumar Shukla has been selected for the prestigious 59th Jnanpith Award for...
socialnews.xyz
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Colson Whitehead: ‘When I read Invisible Man I thought maybe there’s room for a Black weirdo like me’
The Pulitzer prize-winning novelist on discovering Ralph Ellison as a child, his passion for esoteric encyclopedias and why he loves World War Z...
theguardian.com
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Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed review – a slick and starry collection of short stories
Tackling gendered insults head on, A-list authors deliver a smart anthology of fun and fearless tales to celebrate Virago’s 50th birthday...
theguardian.com
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How to Write Short Stories Using AI in 2025 : A Complete Guide
geeky-gadgets.com
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books
Neha Kakkar's Melbourne Concert Organisers Say Her Allegations Are False, 'It Was A Disaster Show'
bollywoodshaadis.com
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books / entrepreneurship
The Nation's First Black Female Doctor Blazed a Path for Women in Medicine. But She Was Left Out of the Story for Decades
smithsonianmag.com
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Biblioracle: ‘The Mailman’ by Andrew Welsh-Huggins is a new thriller with a hero both like and unlike Jack Reacher
To the apparent chagrin of some readers, I have periodically extolled the virtues of the Jack Reacher novels. The detractors see evidence of someone seduced...
chicagotribune.com
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Antiques Roadshow guest floored by price of her thrifted French children's book
An Antiques Roadshow guest was shocked when she heard what her thrifted French children's book was worth during a recent episode. An Antiques Roadshow...
the-express.com
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‘The Slow Bleeding Out of a Country’
Israel’s assault on Lebanon threatens to render the very conditions of life impossible and hasten the country’s disintegration. Once again Lebanon’s...
nybooks.com
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music / books
Book review: Have we underestimated Yoko Ono all along?
stltoday.com
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People being denied house because of caste or religion is `disheartening': Maharashtra Governor
theprint.in
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AI Agents Are Like Love: Wanted Everywhere, Understood Nowhere
As 2025 unfolds, AI agents are emerging as the year’s defining business technology trend, with tech giants racing to develop tools that promise to transform...
forbes.com
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Explosive Meta memoir tops US best-seller list
A scathing book about Facebook parent company Meta, whose author has been barred from promoting her work, entered at the top of the New York...
thehindu.com
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Han Kang: ‘One year I couldn’t bear fiction and read astrophysics instead’
The novelist on South Korean tales, discovering Dostoevsky, and the comfort of nature books...
theguardian.com
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Nirmal Bang's Rahul Arora bets HAL, BEML, Solar Industries are long-term defence plays
Strong order books, geopolitical shifts, and solid financial performance underpin Nirmal Bang Equities' conviction in these stocks. India’s defence...
moneycontrol.com
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Dead Ink wins Republic of Consciousness prize with Missouri Williams’s ‘astonishing’ debut
The award, championing small presses with fewer than five staff, was won by The Doloriad – an audaciously original novel set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia...
theguardian.com
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Lives of the Wives by Carmela Ciuraru review – literary couples a breed apart
The author raids memoirs and letters but adds little of her own in this juicy group biography of writers’ marriages...
theguardian.com
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The 16 Best New Book Releases This Week: Nov. 26-Dec. 2, 2024
From James Patterson to Taylor Swift (and Superman!), we’ve got ‘em all. Here are the 16 best new book releases this week: November 26 to December 2,...
parade.com
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MARCH OF GLORY: The story of India’s 1975 World Cup hockey triumph
If there was a player in the Indian team who gazed at the World Cup in the hotel foyer more intensely than his teammates, it...
thehindu.com
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Author Scaachi Koul had the perfect internet husband. Then, her marriage shattered
Gossip has always been sacred to Scaachi Koul. So naturally, when the Canadian Indian writer got divorced, she was eager to know if people were...
vogue.in
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Revisiting “The Plot Against America”
Culture Desk I read and reread Philip Roth’s book to try to understand the present, to make sense of what may happen. January 20, 2025 New...
newyorker.com
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Plotters by Lizzie Dearden review – the terrorists who failed
From malfunctioning satnavs to dud bombs, the stories behind botched attacks on the UK...
theguardian.com
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Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day review – friends with benefits
A candid examination of the difference between being good at friendships and being a good friend...
theguardian.com
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writing / books
Bestselling books of 2024
It’s time for our annual bestselling books list. This year, we’ve identified the top-selling titles in the Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Juvenile & Young...
booknetcanada.ca
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Reading Ambassadors: A Model for Youth Programming In a University Collection
The Worlds of Words Center Reading Ambassador program has sent alumni to Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, Northwestern and the brightest ones to the...
ala.org
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What Laws Govern The Multiverse?—Darkly Lem’s Transmentation | Transience
Books book review What Laws Govern The Multiverse?—Darkly Lem’s Transmentation | TransienceTransmentation | Transience offers a sweeping multiverse...
reactormag.com
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How a Leading Black Historian Uncovered Her Own Family's Painful Past—and Why Her Ancestors' Stories Give Her Hope
smithsonianmag.com
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Holiday 2024 Reading List
Every week in the PS Book Recommendations newsletter – available for free to all registered Project Syndicate users – PS contributors share books that...
project-syndicate.org
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Brutal history behind 'most painful torture device ever' that was even used on the person who created it
ladbible.com
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