Got your towels and sunscreen ready? How about your summer reading? Here are some books to start the season right: a reflective memoir about relationships and selfhood, a fantasy imagining a world... Read more »
It may be too late for rural libraries to weather the IMLS storm May 16 2025 Beth Anderson, director of the Burnsville Public Library in West Virginia, can throw a rock from... Read more »
The actor reads a poem in memory of her grandmother “Bubbles”, who “always had a sense of play”. The film is part of a series to mark Celebration Day 2025 – a... Read more »
Helena Bonham Carter, Toby Jones and Asa Butterfield are among actors performing poems in memory of family members and friends who have died, to mark Celebration Day later this month. The initiative,... Read more »
Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, has won this year’s International Booker prize for translated fiction, becoming the first short story collection to take the award. The stories were... Read more »
Illinois’ prominent Chicago Sun-Times newspaper has confirmed that a summer reading list, which included several recommendations for books that don’t exist, was created using artificial intelligence by a freelancer who worked with... Read more »
“I’ve been giving this standing ovation since last year’s Cannes Film Festival.” Source link Read more »
Philip Ignatius Brooke – aristocrat, playboy, countercultural icon, owner of a 1,000-acre estate in the Sussex countryside – is dead. And no one is especially sad. Certainly not his immediate family, who,... Read more »
The refurbished house in Bradford where the Brontë sisters were born is now welcoming visitors, having been opened on Thursday by the queen. Nestled in a narrow street in the village of... Read more »