As I sit in my kitchen writing this, it is near dusk on Tuesday, November 12. It has been one week since the presidential election. My original deadline for this piece—a personal essay-cum-review of my kids’ and my favorite books from the past year—was the end of October. I listed my books, collected quotes and
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Billie Eilish has played snippets of two new songs in a recent interview, revealing that she has been “making music” again. During a conversation with CBS News, the pop star spoke to Anthony Mason about her enormous success and the doubts she has about her ability to create new material. The chat comes at the
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(Left) Male Actor in a Comedy Series, Jeremy Allen White, ‘The Bear’ 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards, Show, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA – 24 Feb 2024. Credit: Photo by Christopher Polk/Shutterstock for SAG. (Right) The Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) and the Child in ‘The Mandalorian,’ season two, exclusively on Disney+. Preview: ‘The Bear’s Jeremy
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If the original Inside Out was preparing children for the world of adult emotional complexity, Disney+’s Dream Productions is designed to prepare children for the world of grown-up entertainment clichés. Basically HBO’s The Franchise for kids, the animated series is a flatly innocuous spinoff, wedged pointlessly between the two Inside Out films in a way
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Groundbreaking Poet Nikki Giovanni Dies at 81 Beloved poet Nikki Giovanni has died at the age of 81.
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December 10, 2024, 2:16pm The national treasure Nikki Giovanni died yesterday from complications connected to lung cancer. She was 81. A decorated writer of poems, nonfiction, and children’s books, Giovanni was also a star of the Black Arts Movement. She was a devoted activist, performer, parent, professor, and public thinker, and leaves behind a wake
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Timothée Chalamet in ‘A Complete Unkown’. Photo by Macall Polay, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2024 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved. Opening in theaters on December 25th is the new biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’, which chronicles the early life and career of legendary musician Bob Dylan. Directed By James Mangold (‘Walk the Line’), the film
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Adam Sandler is driving toward the release of Happy Gilmore 2, with the Netflix sequel having recently wrapped principal photography. The star was a guest on the Dan Patrick Show episode that aired Friday, where he revealed that the movie completed filming that day. With Kyle Newacheck directing, the follow-up to the 1996 comedy stars
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