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Grab your popcorn buckets and your M&Ms, book lovers. If you’re looking for some fun new shows and movies to watch at home or in theaters, there are a lot of fun book adaptations coming out this July. From...

Dave Eggers, the author of more than a dozen novels as well as a steady stream of children’s and nonfiction books, grew up wanting to be an artist.As a child he took lessons with a Japanese watercolourist, studied painting at...

Three paragraphs, from three different hotel reviews. Can you tell which, if any, were AI‑generated?“The hotel is in a great location for everything. Lots of places to eat and drink. The hotel itself is always abuzz. The tavern located...

This spring, when Vice President JD Vance announced his new memoir, “Communion,” a backlash erupted on social media. The critiques weren’t about the contents of the book, which chronicles Vance’s conversion to Catholicism and how his faith has informed...

Museums are damned if they do, damned if they don’t. Ignore the problems of the past and they’re criticised for being problematic. Rewrite their labels according to changing politics and they’re called preachy and woke. The fact is, history is...

Even as an undergraduate, Robin Farquharson was famous for being erratic. He provoked anxiety and goodwill in equal measure. His aim in life, according to an anonymous writer in an Oxford student newspaper, was “to become a contradiction in terms. Since last...

When Faye Heron flies from L.A. to her alma mater in New York’s Finger Lakes region, it’s a homecoming of the saddest kind: the funeral for her beloved film professor and mentor, Patrick Toner (PT for short). It’s been...

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Barnes & Noble’s 2026 Discover Prize, which celebrates debut authors, has gone Vincent Yu for Seek Immediate Shelter.“What if the apocalypse, but j/k?” isn’t a bad way to think about this novel, in which the folks in a small...

June 25, 2026View Online | Join All Access | Listen 📽️ It is a truth universally acknowledged that a classic book with a beloved adaptation must be in want of a remix. Jane Austen fans are in for a big...