Month: December 2024

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. Liz Pelletier Named Publishers Weekly Person of the Year Pelletier had an excellent case to be named PW’s
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In Queer, Daniel Craig plays a gay old dude named William who wanders around Mexico City seeking intimacy, and instead finds himself drawn to an empty vessel of a younger man. Then director Luca Guadagnino, having run out of book material at the two-thirds mark, takes things in a wildly different direction. Based on the
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It only took 34 years, but members of Pearl Jam and Metallica intersected on stage together for the first time last night (Dec. 13) at the latter’s annual Helping Hands benefit at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles. Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament joined the metal legends for “Hit the Lights,” the penultimate song of
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This story was originally published on Judd Legum’s Substack, Popular Information, to which you can subscribe here. —  it then appeared on Mother Jones and has been republished with the publication’s permission. A new middle school sex education curriculum in Orange County, Florida, obtained by Popular Information, eliminates previous lessons on the reproductive system, contraception, and consent. What remains is
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Curious Dreamers’ epic album Hushabye Lullabye (Music from the Original TV Series) is a startling reminder of melody’s power. The brainchild of Giles Lamb and Sacha Kelly, Hushabye Lullabye is a ten-track collection highlighting Lamb’s endlessly inventive songwriting gifts, focusing on simplicity, and Kelly’s five-star conceptual and presentational contributions. These aren’t recordings that bluster and bellow –
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Image Credit: Billboard via Getty Images Zakir Hussain, the renowned Indian tabla player, composer, percussionist, and more, has reportedly been admitted to a hospital in San Francisco, California, due to serious heart-related ailments. While multiple reports initially suggested that the 4-time Grammy winner had passed away, some of his family members have since confirmed that
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In Sing Sing, a group of convicts discovers a glimmer of hope and release where none exists. A quietly powerful film that plucks at the heartstrings of even the toughest of men (that’s me, the toughest of men… obviously), Sing Sing is one of the best movies of the year.  Domingo Coleman plays a convicted
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Grab a cup of something tasty and catch up with the news stories Today in Books readers found most interesting this week. Groundbreaking Poet Nikki Giovanni Dies at 81 Beloved poet Nikki Giovanni has died at the age of
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From Steve McQueen comes Blitz, a WWII drama-lite that feels a bit too polished and Disney-like for its own good.  McQueen has made some terrific movies in his career. From Hunger to Shame to 12 Years a Slave, not to mention the Small Axe collection of movies that were released unceremoniously to Amazon Prime in
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The surviving, non-singing members of Soundgarden — guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron — reunited under their previous alias Nudedragons last night (Dec. 14) at the Showbox in Seattle as part of the annual SMooCH fundraiser for Seattle Children’s Hospital. Seattle vocalist Shaina Shepherd filled in for late frontman Chris Cornell, who died by suicide
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Today, I have another installment of “The Best Queer Books of 2024, According to…” Previously, I sifted through The New York Times, Amazon, Publishers Weekly, and Barnes & Noble lists for the queer titles included. This time, I’m
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