This morning, Paramount released the first trailer children of blood and boneHis exhilarating adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s best-selling young adult novel. Set to a Beyoncé soundtrack and teasing a killer line-up of our best living actors – including Viola Davis, Regina King, Amandla Stenberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Idris Elba and Cynthia Erivo – the trailer depicts
Emily Wilson, the classicist behind the buzz odyssey My generation of translations has finally given importance to film adaptations of their favorite poetry. And the shadow was so deep that Wilson’s withering takedown crashed its host site: The London Review of Books, No usually Known for his astronomical virility. We might have guessed that Wilson
For months, government officials across the country have been hearing a growing message from voters: There is no AI data center in our backyard. Controversies surrounding the use of AI platforms like ChatGPIT, Cloud and Google Gemini have become a national discussion. And AI critics say the infrastructure needed to support these platforms has significant
Some good old fashioned literary drama is just the thing for late summer. I think it pairs well with mint juleps and malaise. This week, people of this opinion were extremely pleased to learn that Rachel Cusk’s new novel (life of m) is apparently based on the life of real human actress Natalie Portman. And
Your favorite modernist is getting three new adaptations this summer. Virginia Woolf, supreme oracle to us sad literary girls, has graced the silver screen this summer — thanks to a remarkable trio of new adaptation. Although his work is famously neurological—and, rightly so, literary-This is far from Virginia’s first celluloid rodeo. In 1992, feminist filmmaker
I went to high school and college at the height of the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s. We knew gender discrimination was a problem—but we were to solve it. Article continues after ad My father, who was the head of our family, encouraged me to become a doctor. I was the eldest and golden
“I think that’s a very important thing: to give a man some hope in prison, to give a man some incentive to be a better citizen while he’s in there and if he’s a better citizen while he’s in there, he’ll come out a better citizen.”-Johnny Cash, testifying before the House Committee on the Judiciary,
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The oft-told origin story of Hobby Lobby is that one day in 1970, twenty-eight-year-old David Greene was sitting at a lunch counter in Oklahoma City and sharing frustrations with fellow managers. When they imagined what kind of enterprise they could create on their own, one suggested they make watches. David said, “I have a better
I work in the art department at HarperCollins, where I get a front row seat to the conversations that shape how books appear in the world. What kind of cover art reads as “literary” versus “commercial”, what signals a “book club book”, what feels “serious” versus “friendly”, and, increasingly, how to make a cover socially