Inspirational passion or paid-for promotion: can BookTok be taken on face value? | Books

Author Alex Aster.

BookTok, the nickname for TikTok videos in which books are discussed, analysed, cried about and turned into “aesthetic” moodboards, began as a small group of the app’s users who wanted a place to talk about […]

‘If masterpiece means anything, it means Cat’s Cradle’: the Kurt Vonnegut novels everyone should read | Books

Ron Leibman and Michael Sacks in the 1972 film adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five

The books of Kurt Vonnegut, who was born 100 years ago this Friday, are funny, unflinching, soft-hearted, stark, imaginative and approachable – and just as relevant now as when he published his debut novel 70 […]

The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan review – an enlightening listen-along | Music books

The Clash (l-r: Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon) performing in 1981.

In 1993, Bob Dylan released World Gone Wrong, an album of cover versions of what might be called pre-modern songs by some of the early blues and folk performers that he revered. Dylan’s sleeve notes […]

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 […]