Get stuffed: TV, art, books and more devoted to food, glorious food | Culture

Ramen obsessive Ivan Orkin.

Music Between Bonita Applebum, Butter and the Jam, hip-hop titans A Tribe Called Quest are not shy about paying gastronomic homage. On Ham’n’Eggs, floating like croutons over a languid beat-soup, Q-Tip and Phife Dawg tie […]

Why ‘Catherine Called Birdy’ changes the book’s ending

Bella Ramsey in "Catherine Called Birdy."

LONDON —  Throughout history, there has been one universal truth: A teenager is a teenager, no matter the era. That’s the sensibility of “Catherine Called Birdy,” a new film adapted from Karen Cushman’s 1994 young adult […]

Malala Yousafzai Turns Film Producer! Floats A New Production House To Bring Books To Screen For The Audience

Malala launches film production career with three projects for Apple

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 […]

And … relax: film, music, art and books for chilling out | Culture

Magical … Martin Courtney.

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 […]

Game of Thrones effect fires up reissues of ‘lost’ fantasy fiction classics | Fantasy books

The Last Unicorn, Peter S Beagle’s 1968 novel, is being reissued in the UK after a long rights battles.

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 […]

‘More zeros than I’ve seen in my life’: the author who got a six-figure deal via ‘BookTok’ | Books

Aster: ‘I didn’t have a plan. I just wanted to be a part of this community’

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 […]

The best Neil Gaiman books, comics, and more

A page from issue #8, “The Sound of Her Wings,” from The Sandman.

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 […]