Two Reading Rainbow icons show up for storytime at The Obama Presidential Center, authors choose the best queer books in America, this year’s Common Reads, and more. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. LeVar Burton, Mychal Threets, and Obama Walk Into
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This spring, beabadoobee and the Marías finally made good on their longtime mutual admiration with the dreamy single “All I Did Was Dream of You.” Now, the artist born Beatrice Laus is opening the next chapter of her own story. The singer/songwriter will release her fourth album, Pylon, on Sept. 18 via Dirty Hit and
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James Fishback, a racist and antisemitic Republican running to become Florida’s next governor, will hold a rally on Saturday, June 27 with Christian nationalist hate pastor Joel Webbon — a man whoblames Jewish people for all social evils, blames teachers for causing men to be gay, blamesmarijuana for making men “spiritually gay,”and thinks Adolf Hitlerwasn’t
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President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has joined a lawsuit filed by an extremist religious freedom organization on behalf of nuns at a Catholic hospice in New York, challenging a state law requiring nursing facilities to affirm their patients’ gender identities. The suit was filed in April by Colorado law firm First & Fourteenth, which is
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A day after the death of legendary music executive Clive Davis at age 94, artists whose careers he helped shape—and whose lives he touched far beyond the boardroom—shared heartfelt tributes to one of the most influential figures in popular music history. Davis’ six-decade run transformed the careers of everyone from Janis Joplin and Bruce Springsteen
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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Dorit Kemsley is in the middle of a contentious divorce, which includes a looming foreclosure. To add insult to injury, she just slammed her estranged husband, Paul ‘PK’ Kemsley. As that happened, PK’s client and Dorit’s former confidante, Boy George, referred to her as “unbearable.” Keep reading for more
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Avatar: The Last Airbender‘s Aang star, Gordon Cormier, has teased an epic conclusion to the show’s third season. The live-action adaptation of the groundbreaking animated series of the same name premiered on Netflix on February 22, 2024. The first season ran eight episodes, and concluded by setting up several iconic moments that Avatar: The Last
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A record number of LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. are fleeing the president’s anti-transgender policies by seeking asylum in other countries, according to a report released last Saturday by the LGBTQ+ asylum relocation assistance group Rainbow Railroad. Simultaneously, fewer LGBTQ+ refugees from other anti-queer countries are seeking asylum in the U.S., a result of the
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Clive Davis, the legendary music executive whose career touched virtually every corner of popular music, died today (June 22) at his Manhattan home. He was 94. Over a career that spanned more than six decades, Davis became one of the most influential figures in the history of recorded music, building rosters and shaping careers that
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The Swan Lake theme really is something. Was another such tune ever crafted that could be simultaneously applied to scenarios of tragic romance, psychological horror, and personal apotheosis? The alluring perversion of Tchaikovsky’s composition is at the heart of abrand new adaptation of afilm that is itself an unconventional adaptation of the ballet. Darren Aronofsky’s
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The films of Sophy Romvari are slippery things. The Canadian filmmaker already has something of acult following among very-online cinephiles, despite only just having made her debut feature. The film, Blue Heron, is asun-bleached portrait of adysfunctional family of six, told through aseries of hazy pre-millennial memories following their migration from Hungary. The territory isn’t
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