Book Review: British novelist Naomi Wood is out with an astonishingly good short story collection

“This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” is the debut story collection of the British author Naomi Wood

Entertainment - ABC News - 5 days ago

"Morning's Memory": The real story behind Grant Wood's "American Gothic"

On this day in 1980, Charles Osgood shared the story of the woman who inspired the female figure in one of America's most famous paintings.

Anger is the defining energy of western politics

Quelling the rage is a democratic imperative across the world

World - Financial Times - November 7

Bank of England cuts interest rates to 4.75%

Central bank signals further reduction is unlikely before next year as it raises post-Budget inflation forecast

World - Financial Times - November 7

Trump and the lure of strongman leadership

The president-elect has fundamentally shifted the norms and ideology of American politics

World - Financial Times - November 7

EU leaders strain for unity after Trump win and German crisis

Bloc gathers in Budapest at summit hosted by Brussels’ antagonist Viktor Orbán

World - Financial Times - November 7

Book Review: ‘Cher: The Memoir,’ by Cher

The first volume of her frank autobiography is a testament to resilience, chronicling a grim childhood and the brazen path to stardom, with and without Sonny.

Top stories - The New York Times - November 19

‘We live in a climate of fear’: graphic novelist’s Elon Musk book can’t find UK or US publisher

Darryl Cunningham blames fear of ‘legal consequences’ for reluctance to take on book, now only available in French. A biography by a British graphic novelist of Elon Musk is struggling to find an ...

World - The Guardian - November 23

Book Review: ‘The Miraculous From the Material,’ by Alan Lightman

In “The Miraculous From the Material,” the best-selling author Alan Lightman examines the science behind the wonder.

Science - The New York Times - 3 days ago

British author Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize with space story

The first book set in space to win, Orbital follows astronauts in the International Space Station.

‘I am nothing if not persistent’: Lesley Imgart, winner of our graphic short story prize 2024

It was fifth time lucky for Imgart in this year’s Observer/Faber award for emerging cartoonists, with her spellbinding tale about the life of a young witch. Read winner Lesley Imgart’s Witch Way? ...

World - The Guardian - 6 days ago

Target's big discounting effort falls short as consumers spend less on some goods

Target reported earnings Wednesday that came in far below Wall Street's expectations, something the big-box retailer attributed to slower than expected demand.

Book Review: 'Believe' takes a curious, not judgmental, look at success of 'Ted Lasso'

“Believe: The Untold Story Behind ‘Ted Lasso,’ the Show that Kicked Its Way Into Our Hearts” tells the story of the unlikely success of the hit Apple TV+ series

Entertainment - ABC News - November 12

Book Review: 'Believe' takes a curious, not judgmental, look at success of 'Ted Lasso'

“Believe: The Untold Story Behind ‘Ted Lasso,’ the Show that Kicked Its Way Into Our Hearts” tells the story of the unlikely success of the hit Apple TV+ series

Sports - ABC News - November 12

The Genetic Book of the Dead by Richard Dawkins review – the great biologist’s swansong

A wonderful but thoroughly conventional celebration of the science of evolution. All things must pass, but some leave legacies. That is the story of life on Earth. Fossilised remains of organisms ...

World - The Guardian - November 15

Book Review: Chris Myers looks back on his career in ’That Deserves a Wow'

There are few sports journalists working today with a resume as broad as Chris Myers, writes AP reviewer Rob Merrill about Myers’ memoir, “That Deserves a Wow.”

Sports - ABC News - November 18

Book Review: Chris Myers looks back on his career in ’That Deserves a Wow'

There are few sports journalists working today with a resume as broad as Chris Myers, writes AP reviewer Rob Merrill about Myers’ memoir, “That Deserves a Wow.”

Entertainment - ABC News - November 18

Book Review: 'How to Think Like Socrates' leaves readers with questions

In “How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World,” Donald J

Entertainment - ABC News - November 19

Book Review: ‘American Bulk: Essays on Excess,’ by Emily Mester

In an eye-opening collection, Emily Mester considers why she, and we, seek satisfaction by obsessively choosing, buying and rating the objects we desire.

Business - The New York Times - 6 days ago

WA bushfire caused by fatal car crash triples in size as firefighters warn ‘we’re not out of the woods’

Authorities warn it’s too late to leave some areas after bushfire in the Shire of Dandaragan cuts evacuation routes . Follow our Australia politics live blog for latest updates Get our ...

World - The Guardian - Yesterday

The Lost Children review – extraordinary story of missing kids in the Colombian rainforest

Account of the search for the young siblings after their plane crashed and how the eldest, Lesly – just 13 years old and injured – kept them alive for 40 days. In the fairytale, Hansel and Gretel ...

World - The Guardian - November 13

Book Review: A new book about cult favorite Eve Babitz throws shade on reputation of Joan Didion

In 2019

Entertainment - ABC News - November 11

New York Times Book Review Book Club: ‘Small Things Like These,’ by Claire Keegan

In December, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Small Things Like These,” a meditative Christmastime novella about a man confronting a local horror.

Top stories - The New York Times - 5 days ago

Their Pissarro Is Staying in Germany, but Their Story Is Getting Out

A woman whose family had to sell a painting in the Holocaust and a museum have struck a deal. The museum will keep the work but will help to publish a book telling the family’s story.

Top stories - The New York Times - November 13

Former British soldier who broke out of prison is convicted of spying for Iran

A former British soldier who claimed he was trying to work as a double agent has been convicted of spying for Iran

World - ABC News - 2 days ago

A good book, peace and quiet and somewhere to sit: who could ask for more? | Adrian Chiles

When nature calls, so does the world of literature. It’s excellent toilet reading, I say, when I’m talking about my book of some of these columns . People laugh, but on the quiet I mean it as a ...

World - The Guardian - November 7

Book Review: Sy Montgomery shares ‘What the Chicken Knows’ in new mini hardcover

Why did the chicken cross the road

Entertainment - ABC News - November 4

Book Review: 'The Name of This Band is R.E.M.' is a vivid journey through the rock band's history

Peter Ames Carlin writes a cultural history of the rock bank in “The Name of This Band is R

Entertainment - ABC News - November 5

Book Review: 'Those Opulent Days' is a mystery drenched in cruelties of colonial French Indochina

”Those Opulent Days” is a historical novel set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, when it was part of colonial French Indochina

Entertainment - ABC News - November 11

Book Review: Reader would be 'Damn Glad' to pick up a copy of actor Tim Matheson's new memoir

Actor-director Tim Matheson takes readers behind the scenes of more than a few of his hundreds of credits in the new memoir, “Damn Glad to Meet You: My Seven Decades in the Hollywood Trenches.”

Entertainment - ABC News - November 11

Book Review: Richard Price returns with another portrait of urban America, ‘Lazarus Man'

Richard Price may be the street’s premiere storyteller

Entertainment - ABC News - November 11

Book Review: A young Walt Longmire battles animal and human predators on Alaska’s North Slope

In 1970, after fighting in Vietnam, young Walt Longmire took a job working security for an oil company in Alaska

Entertainment - ABC News - November 18

Book Review: 'Dead Air' tells history of night Orson Welles unleashed fake Martian invasion

“Dead Air: The Night that Orson Welles Terrified America” by William Elliott Hazelgrove is a history of the 1938 radio adaptation of “War of the Worlds.”

Entertainment - ABC News - 5 days ago

That Librarian by Amanda Jones review – one woman’s brave fight against book banning

A small-town US librarian’s lively account of her battle with a group of far-right censors reveals the toll it took on her health. Amanda Jones’s story is awful – and important. A school librarian ...

World - The Guardian - 4 days ago

Movie Review: The Washington family tells a ghost story in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson’

An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson.”

Entertainment - ABC News - November 6

Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story review – a pleasure of a film about an unlikely bond

Beautifully shot among Shetland’s epic scenery, Charlie Hamilton James’s documentary follows Billy and wife Susan, as Molly changes their lives in the most uplifting way. This rather lovely film ...

World - The Guardian - November 14

Review: 'Say Nothing' draws strength from telling a focused story about the Troubles

FX's historical drama, based on Patrick Radden Keefe's award-winning nonfiction book, doesn't try to tell the whole history of the Troubles, focusing instead on a few key figures.

Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - November 14

Book Review: British novelist Naomi Wood is out with an astonishingly good short story collection

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