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What happened in the apple orchard that so frightened the children? Something had been half-glimpsed or heard, something in the night. Rumors sparked but...

At Christmas, 1939, a few months into the new World War, London bookshops were very busy. The war was bringing in a public eager...

Which were the pivotal years of the past century? An argument could be made for 1929, when the worldwide financial crash ushered in the...

“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight...

“I’m embarrassed about the fluid situation,” the comedian Jenny Slate began, apologizing for her cold. We were talking on Zoom, and she was some...

In July, 2013, Will Shortz, the New York Times’ longtime puzzle editor, asked me to be his assistant. I had just graduated from college,...

In 2021, Jack Chadwick, a twenty-seven-year-old barman and part-time go-go dancer, was browsing the shelves of the Working Class Movement Library, outside Manchester, when...

The release of Jennifer Lopez’s This Is Me Now…A Love Story on Amazon Prime has received glowing reviews from long-time JLo fans as well...

The residents of the apartment complex are respectable. There are doctors, lawyers, and a surplus of those drably enigmatic persons known as “young professionals.”...

Printed MatterChelseaThrilling, overwhelming, chaotic: even if I spend an hour in Printed Matter, I often feel like I’ve only scratched the surface. It took...

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I have to believe that somewhere in the multiverse, where a dancer of the supa-fly variety can climb to household-name status purely off the...

These plus size romance novels should tide you over while you wait for the next season of Bridgerton.Netflix recently released a teaser trailer for...

By Evan Lambert Updated February 16, 2024 Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall in One Day (2024) | IMDb By Evan Lambert Updated February 16, 2024 Ambika Mod and Leo...

By Maria Popova I turned the corner one afternoon to find my neighborhood grocer gone. No warning, just gone — padlocked and boarded off, closed...

A researcher specializing in narcissism and psychopathy shares the red flags of the narcissistic mother.Emotional and verbal abuse by any parent, whether a narcissistic...

THE RACE to win La Liga is usually a two-horse affair. In the 21st century Real Madrid and Barcelona have won a combined 19...

The interdisciplinary artist Rena Anakwe explores the curative properties of sound design. The first music that she released under the name A Space for...

On my first visit to the tiny space, the manager and co-owner, Dania Kim, walked me through a brief menu of three entrée-size plates...

THE BRITISH EMPIRE is out of fashion, but publishing books about it is in vogue. A wave of titles has hit bookstores in recent...