Malala launches film production career with three projects for Apple ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Malala Yousafzai — activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and self-confessed “Stranger Things” fan — is in production on her […]
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A limited edition single volume of the long-running manga One Piece is being billed as the longest book in existence. At 21,450 pages, it is physically impossible to read, making it less of a book […]
A book a day keeps Ye away. Eccentric rapper and Pete Davidson’s former love rival Kanye West confessed that he’s never actually read a book, going on to compare literature to icky green vegetables. Yeezy’s […]
MF DOOM’s widow says she’s made multiple attempts to retrieve the late rapper’s rhyme books, but a certain music executive refuses to give them up. In a statement provided to Complex, Jasmine Dumile claims the precious […]
In An Inconvenient Apocalypse, authors Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen style themselves as heralds of some very bad news: societal collapse on a global scale is inevitable, and those who manage to survive the mass […]
Film Bureaucracy meets the afterlife in Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After Life, a gently paced drama concerned with a simple question: which single memory from your life would you choose to remember for eternity? Every […]
It is a lyrical, beautiful fantasy story about a mythical beast who sets out on a quest into a world that no longer believes in her to find out if she is truly the last […]
Having finally published her first novel, Alex Aster was feeling disheartened. The book had tanked during the pandemic and she had been dropped by her literary agent. Then, on 13 March 2021, she decided to […]
Nicholas Evans, the bestselling author of The Horse Whisperer, has died at the age of 72. In a statement, United Agents said the “much-loved” writer had died following a heart attack on Tuesday. “He lived […]
L.A. cops have a dark culture when it comes to grizzly death scenes, keeping “ghoul books” with photos of famous people who met violent deaths. As we reported, Vanessa Bryant is suing the L.A. County […]
This week, Netflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman makes its debut. It’s been a long, long road for the adaptation of the legendary comic, and Gaiman’s involvement helped keep the adaptation true to his […]
The first abortion I encountered in literature isn’t named. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story Hills Like White Elephants, which I studied at school, a man and a woman wait at a sleepy Spanish train station […]
German writer WG Sebald is regularly named one of the most influential writers of recent decades. He referred to his genre-defying books as prose fiction – not-quite-novels, not-quite-autobiographies, not-quite-nonfiction – but with elements of all. […]
“I have read some really fantastic fiction about queer women, but I have quite often felt that it leans towards the slightly gloomier side,” says author Laura Kay. For the London-based writer, it was natural […]
Photo Credit: Iñaki Espejo-Saavedra / CC by 3.0 Travis Scott is officially set to headline a stateside music festival for the first time since 10 people perished (and thousands suffered injuries) at his Astroworld event […]
Late one Thursday in March 1988, Dave Swindells walked into a tiny, sweat-drenched club in central London and found himself present at the birth of a new cultural revolution. The venue, behind Charing Cross station, […]
Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel Dune, first published in 1965, is still extremely influential. Science fiction author Matthew Kressel recently re-read Dune for the first time in more than a decade. “I was worried,” […]
Sound is a great connector among animals. A song or call links one creature to another almost instantaneously, like a telepathic signal that passes through dense vegetation and the darkest night. Sound also discloses the […]
Where there’s a will, there’s often a row. A legacy need be of no great value to cause a spat: I’ve seen grown siblings weep over their dead mother’s favourite salad bowl. But an inheritance […]