Books

One of the key findings from a new study by the Pew Research Center shows that 30% of Americans now read ebooks, up from 25% in 2019. The number of those who read a print book stayed the same in that time period, while audiobook reading increased from 20% to 23%. The Pew Research Center

It’s never a slow news day at the Vought News Network. Today, Amazon Prime Video unleashed a Biblical torrent of tidbits surrounding the release of The Boys season 3, including a date for the season premiere, and for the long-awaited “Herogasm” installment of the series adapted from Garth Ennis’s comics. For starters, The Boys season

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It takes a special movie to bring together a cast like the one in The 355. This is an international, five-pointed star showcase of leading lady talent, with the female ensemble headed by Jessica Chastain, who is also a producer on the picture, and complemented by Lupita Nyong’o, Diane Kruger, Penélope Cruz, and Fan Bingbing.

A five-year mystery has been (mostly) solved, as the FBI arrested Italian citizen and UK publishing worker Filippo Bernardini yesterday on charges of impersonation and fraud. (Here’s the same story in The Guardian, in case you, too, have reached your NYT article limit.) This is such a bizarre case, and the arrest answers the question

This article contains Don’t Look Up spoilers. Is this really happening? That is the anxious, painfully relatable plea Leonardo DiCaprio’s Dr. Randall Mindy cries repeatedly during the pre-title sequence of Don’t Look Up. Over the extended prologue of the new Adam McKay and Netflix phenomenon, Mindy and his best student, PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer

Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1993 until she passed away in 2020. From January 19-27th, more than 1,000 books from her personal library are being auctioned in 165 lots, including law books annotated by Ginsburg as well as books signed by Gloria Steinem and Toni Morrison. The

This Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett article contains spoilers. In the flashback portion of The Book of Boba Fett episode 2, “The Tribes of Tatooine,” Boba Fett is on the hunt for something that can help the Tusken Raiders take down the Pyke Syndicate’s hovertrain, but it isn’t power converters. When the bounty

Cold weather reading is my favorite reading! The best part of my day is curling up under the covers with my daughter and reading books together. Some days this happens a lot; other days, she doesn’t want to sit still and I read at her while I’m under the covers and she’s playing, but whatever

This Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett article contains spoilers. Despite the desert planet’s reputation as the middle of nowhere of the galaxy, a lot of things happen on Tatooine. In the second episode of The Book of Boba Fett, the bounty hunter turned crime lord digs further into Mos Espa’s underworld and learns

On October 25, Texas Republican State Representative Matt Krause sent a letter to the Texas school districts asking if they carried any of 850 books listed as well as any other that may include material that could make students feel “discomfort.” The books listed were overwhelmingly by authors of color and/or included LGBTQ characters. A week later,

This The Lost Daughter article contains major spoilers for the ending. You can read our spoiler-free review of the Netflix film here. When it comes to movies with similar story elements to The Lost Daughter, we are conditioned to expect a specific kind of immense, external tragedy—namely, that a child is lost through abduction or

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This article contains spoilers for DON’T LOOK UP. In the new Netflix hit movie, Don’t Look Up, written and directed by satirical filmmaker Adam McKay (The Big Short, Anchorman), two rather low-level astronomers (Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence) discover a comet is headed directly toward Earth, with the object set to smash into our little

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The Golden Girls icon Betty White passed away this past weekend. Let’s honor her legacy by going through some of her career highlights. “Betty White, the vivacious comic actress who had the longest television career in the history of the medium, has died. TMZ first reported her death, which law enforcement authorities confirmed. She was 99. White is best

The New York Times Book Review marked their 125 year anniversary by asking readers to nominate the best book of the past 125 years. Those submissions were narrowed down to a list of 25, which were voted on by more than 200,000 readers. The list included classics like The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald,

The top sci-fi books in January 2022 see the world transformed in myriad ways, from an Arctic plague to a UFO sighting to fleeing Earth for the stars. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu Type: NovelPublisher: William MorrowRelease date: Jan. 18 Den of Geek says: Sequoia Nagamatsu’s debut promises to be

I often think about how differently I consumed books before I started studying English literature. Books have always been my passion, of course, which is why I wanted to study literature in the first place. But the period of years I spent being graded on my ability to read and analyze quickly — far too

This Dexter: New Blood review contains spoilers. Dexter: New Blood Episode 9 This is as good as Dexter gets.  While Dexter: New Blood has done more than enough to remove the bad taste left by the original series’ mostly maddening final three seasons, “The Family Business” justifies reviving the show. It’s the best episode of