Month: July 2024

Sony is adapting Liz Moore’s novels The Unseen World and The God of the Woods, which we just wrote about as being Thee Book of the Summer. The plan is for both adaptations to be developed as series, with the same executive producers as Sony’s adaptation of Liz Moore’s Long Bright River: Neal H. Moritz
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Of all the tenets of dressing well, ‘do not clash patterns’ seems like one that should always hold water. Deliberately playing around with prints and patterns is to design an outfit that looks like it shouldn’t go together. How could that be stylish? Even the most rebellious of subcultures throughout history were loath to mix
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL
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Image Credit: Getty Images President Joe Biden appeared in an historic televised presidential address since stepping down from the 2024 presidential race. While speaking to the American public from the Oval Office on Wednesday, July 24, the 81-year-old began his speech by crediting his predecessors, including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, “who showed us presidents
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Steve Carell returns to voice Gru in Despicable Me 4, but does it even matter when Minions are involved? A just-okay entry in the just-okay franchise, we’re a long way from the cleverness of the original. And that’s just fine–like its predecessors, Despicable Me 4 is a mindlessly entertaining romp for small children, with enough
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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. The Reading Revolution: How the Literary Sphere Took Over I have been trying to figure out why book
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Funny, inappropriate, and full of gory action, Deadpool & Wolverine is the jolt the MCU needs right now: a self-aware slap on the fucking ass. Its ridiculousness masks some shortcomings, but it’s hard to picture any fans giving a damn about flaws when there are a thousand cameos, Easter eggs, and self-deprecating jokes to distract
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An adaptation of the popular video game, Eli Roth’s Borderlands is finally set for big screen release this summer, and EW shares several first look images in a preview piece today. Lionsgate will be releasing Borderlands on August 9, 2024. The new images below give a closer look at the colorful characters in this video game adaptation, including the crazed
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When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation by Tara Sidhoo Fraser When Fraser is thirty-two years old, she experiences a stroke. Her doctor discovers that she has a rare mutation that caused her brain to hemorrhage. After doctors performed the surgery that saved her life, Fraser wakes up only to realize
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“Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller… all the blind guys.” That’s how the multi-instrumentalist John Mayall, one of the chief architects of the British blues revival of the 1960s, who died at 90 yesterday at his home in California, described the influences that shaped his musical tastes and inspired a career that stretched
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