MS NOW, CNN, Politico Allege Trump, White House Staffers Violated First Amendment in New Suit
Varietyby Brian Steinberg·27d ago
MS NOW, CNN and Politico sued President Donald Trump and other administration officials over a decision by Trump to ban the three news organizations from newsgathering at the White House, the...
MS NOW, CNN, Politico Allege Trump, White House Staffers Violated First Amendment in New Suit
Varietyby Brian Steinberg·27d ago
MS NOW, CNN and Politico said they filed suit against the federal government following a decision by President Donald Trump to ban the three news organizations from newsgathering at the White...
Can 'A Different World' sequel change lives like the original series? Hillman is back in session
The Independentby Jonathan Landrum Jr·27d ago
Netflix’s new “A Different World” arrives with a burden few television comedies have to carry: The original entertained millions while helping some viewers decide where they went to college, what...
The National Book Award Longlists, BIPOC Edition
BOOK RIOTby Erica Ezeifedi·27d ago
The National Book Award Longlists were just announced last week. The Awards have been around for almost 100 years (except for a WWII hiatus), and celebrate books published in the US by US authors.
The Best YA Thrillers To Get Your Heart Racing
BOOK RIOTby Alice Nuttall·27d ago
I love YA thrillers, from murder mysteries to slashers, dark academia to teen detectives uncovering old crimes casting their shadows into the present day.
Celebrate National Translation Month With These Books
BOOK RIOTby Danika Ellis·27d ago
September is National Translation Month! Books in translation are severely underrepresented in the English market, which means we’re missing out on some of the best writing in the world.
The Worst Romance Book Adaptations to Hit the Screen
BOOK RIOTby Arvyn Cerezo·27d ago
Thanks to streaming, there have been noticeably plenty of book-to-movie adaptations in the past year or so, especially in the romance genre.
8 of the Best Gothic Mystery Novels
BOOK RIOTby Carolina Ciucci·27d ago
I’ve spoken at length about my love of the gothic genre, whichever variant it comes in. Gothic horror? I’m in. Gothic romance? Shut up and take my money. Gothic mysteries?
'Lanterns' Is Ready to Tackle Another, Even Bigger, Mystery
Gizmodoby Germain Lussier·27d ago
After spending the better part of five episodes discovering the past, Lanterns is now tackling the present.
From the ridicule of Trump to the rise of Jack Welch: how the 1980s shaped and changed America
The Guardianby Martin Pengelly·27d ago
Donald Trump is “so much a creature of the 80s but even in the 80s, everyone made fun of him,” Jonathan Kaufman said.
Taryn Simon’s Evidence as Spectacle
Hyperallergicby Hyperallergic·27d ago
The Wreck of the Unbelievable, a play by Sleth at the Brick Theater, tells the story of Damien Hirst’s imagined secret gay lover, a younger artist who paints holes, as a curator presses him for...
Waiting for Jay-Z
The New Yorkerby Hua Hsu·27d ago
It was nearing midnight on a balmy Sunday in July, and there was still no sight of Jay-Z. This was the last of three sold-out concerts at Yankee Stadium, and somehow the tens of thousands of fans...
What Barbara Kingsolver Believes the Novel Can Do
The New Yorkerby Casey Cep·27d ago
Barbara Kingsolver always struggles with beginnings. “I write probably one hundred pages to get to page one of any novel,” she told me recently. “Not all at once—like, eight or nine pages a day.
Learning to Yearn with Georgia Oakley
The New Yorkerby Rebecca Mead·27d ago
When Georgia Oakley was in her final year of secondary school, in Berkshire, England, she went to a movie audition on a lark.
The Return of “Salt”
The New Yorkerby Rachel Levin·27d ago
The writer Mark Kurlansky, a seventy-seven-year-old man with a bad back, was futzing around in his apartment on the Upper West Side the other day when his daughter flashed her phone at him with...
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
The New Yorkerby The New Yorker·27d ago
The Maltese Version, by Katy Simpson Smith (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The timeworn saying about there being two sides to every story gains new dimension in this probing novel, which posits that...
7 Meaningful Comics for Tweens and Teens on Big Topics
BOOK RIOTby Megan Mabee·27d ago
The tween and teen years are a formative period. They’re a time when big topics like mental health, body image, challenging family and friendship situations, romantic relationships, and more begin...
Ari Emanuel’s ‘Roll the Calls’ Takes Aim at Everyone From His Brothers to Former Business Partners
Vanity Fairby Maxwell Adler·27d ago
At Ari Emanuel’s wedding to fashion designer Sarah Staudinger (his second wife named Sarah), the officiant, Larry David, called the groom a “mutant” and a “c-nt.” Considering the setting and their...
Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh’s Romance Was a Shakespearean Tragedy
Vanity Fairby Hadley Hall Meares·27d ago
“If we loved each other only with our bodies I suppose it would be alright,” Laurence Olivier wrote to Vivien Leigh during the early years of their romance. “I love you with much more than that.
Tyla faces backlash over silence as Ekurhuleni women's deaths
The South Africanby Nicole Burger·27d ago
Tyla faces backlash over silence as Ekurhuleni women’s deaths As South Africa reels from a deeply disturbing case, public attention has unexpectedly turned to one of the country’s biggest global...
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