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Deadline· 29m

EXCLUSIVE: Diana Unheard is the explosive three-part documentary that features the Princess in her own words. With never-before-heard audio, the tapes cover some of the ground explored by her brother, Earl Spencer, in his recent book, ‘Swan Song’, which sparked a war of words…

Book Riot· 35m

Is your Halloween costume still a big question mark? All the answers lie within your favorite mystery novels.

Book Riot· 37m

This week's new YA book releases include stories marrying good and evil, dangerous hot springs, life-changing community service, and more.

Book Riot· 38m

The best fantasy epics have magic based in bone and fire, jinn, necromancing lesbians, adapt epic poems, and much more.

Book Riot· 39m

Whether it’s a bloodbath or psychological terror, the women in these horror books about feminine rage leave readers saying, “Good for her!”

Book Riot· 1h

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In 1971, eight years after Sylvia Plath died, a dispute over the backstory of her death broke out between her husband Ted Hughes and the poet and critic Al Alvarez. Alvarez, a friend of Plath, published a book which, in

Beginning on Thursday, August 27, all days blur into one long, endless air raid alarm. 13 air alarms a day, lasting 872 minutes. The next day—12 alarms, lasting 634 minutes. The next—10 alarms, lasting 644 minutes. And so it goes

If a body is undocumented, should we be surprised if the war against that body is undocumented too? The ugly truth of deportation is it is a war. An American war predicated on the same things as previous American wars:

I’m not really interested in wrestling with what defines a classic. It’s the kind of question that fills up think pieces and podcasts with bouts of teeth gnashing and hand-wringing and endless rumination on the Western canon. But let’s agree

If there is one thing that the last decade ought to have taught us, it is that strong objective factors do not automatically translate into powerful movements, let alone into the spontaneous discovery of the correct line by the masses.

Señorita Rio stands out as a particularly groundbreaking character, an actor of Latinx heritage who gives up the glitz of Hollywood for the danger of espionage. Created by writer Joe Hawkins and artist Nick Viscardi (also known as Nick “Cardy”)

It is quite rare to find someone who is a first-class academic and analyst, and is also able to become a first-class activist, but Leah Stokes is a triple threat. A political scientist at UC Santa Barbara, she wrote the

Nine months ago, a surgeon cut into my chest to remove my breasts because this is what I had come to want and need. The road to this arrival was wending, wooded, years of observing my relationship to the image

The woman first saw the stranded pilgrim, babe in arms, on a poster on the wall of the Medieval Center at the University of Bordeaux the year she finally studied abroad. The black-and-white illustration showed a mother kneeling on the

Book Riot· 15h

The 2026 National Book Award Shortlist for Poetry has been announced. The winner will be announced on November 18.

Vulture· 15h

The former child star reveals all the ways she got lost on her way to Disney Channel’s Mount Rushmore.