Join the adventure by completing any (or all) of the following reading challenges: listen to an audiobook, read outside, re-read an all-time favorite, watch a book-to-screen adaptation, enjoy an author event (in person or online), borrow a book from a Little Free Library or from a friend, take a trip with your next read, find
James Bradley, who turned his curiosity about his father’s time in the Navy during the Battle of Iwo Jima — and the long-held but ultimately mistaken belief that he was in the iconic photograph of six soldiers raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi — into the best-selling book “Flags of Our Fathers” (2000), died
I hope everyone is having a great month so far! Here are some headlines you may have missed or missed from the past few weeks. From Marvel’s Mangaverse Celebration to Return blue ExorcistComics fans have a lot to dig into. News from DC and Marvel Marvel artist Paul BectonPerhaps best known for that legend thor
Bookmaxing, updates on a highly anticipated book-to-screen adaptation, MisterBeast and James Patterson’s new book, and the day’s top literary headlines. Reading is sexy: welcome to booksmaxing Well, I don’t think so “Booksmaxing“It’s a real thing as well as a catchy title, but there’s a take for granted that reading is sexy. Mentions of books in
pinnacle by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill, £16.99)In the Mumbai apartment block of the same name, the ultra-rich and the people who serve them coexist, but worlds apart. Endangered American actor George Abercrombie, married to superstar Sweety Sahota, finds himself advertising Indian whiskey while his younger wife’s acting career takes off at breakneck speed. Waking up on
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The first conversation I remember having with my son about ghosts or death in general was a few years ago, when he was about 5 years old. We were heading south on I-5 from Los Angeles at night. I was driving, and he was behind me, strapped into his safety seat. We weren’t talking at
Maybe it wasn’t just me, or even just the movies. The shock of empty theaters due to the pandemic and the simultaneous rise of streaming platforms may have caused irreparable damage to cinema’s sustainability and tarnished its luster. The attention that stardom and spectacle attracted was shifting to smaller screens and increasingly fragmented into narrow
In savings and trustHistorian Justine Hill Edwards tells the story of the Freedman’s Bank, which was created for former enslaved people after the Civil War. Originally aired November 7, 2024. Listen to the original interview History How does the collapse of the Freedman’s Bank in 1874 connect to the economic inequalities we see today