Month: August 2024

The smartest people in the world are often featured in film, sometimes they are real, and sometimes fictional. They don’t always have anything in common, either, other than being geniuses. One might be a math wizard, another a musician who hears music no one else could conceive of. Here is our list of people like
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There Amanda Jones was, living in her hometown of Watson, Louisiana, working as a middle school librarian in the school she once attended—an unremarkable and happy life. Then, everything changed. On a mid-July evening in 2022, Jones gave a short, powerful speech against censorship at her local public library’s board meeting. Four days later, she
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You know it’s coming. That awkward stage between summer and fall where it’s too cold to wear a sweater but too hot for just a t-shirt. I can honestly say it’s one of my most hated times of year – I just don’t know what to wear to stay comfortable when the weather begins to
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A$AP Rocky has shared a zany video for new song “Tailor Swif,” finally released after leaking in 2022. Directed by Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia, and filmed in Kyiv, Ukraine, two months before the Russian invasion, the video presents a surreal tapestry of bathroom hijinks, canine chaperones, airborne vehicles, and urban pandas and dolphins—soundtracked by
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As part of hosting the Book Riot Podcast, co-writing Today in Books, while also keeping my own reading train running, I collect interesting book lists. Some I get around to linking to, some I don’t. So here on the precipice of Fall, I offer 42 book lists I’ve collected over the last couple of months.
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Earlier today, the deputy director of communications for former President Donald J. Trump posted a video on X that featured the White Stripes’ 2003 Elephant song “Seven Nation Army.” The aide, Margo Martin, has since deleted the post, but that did not stop Jack White from criticizing Martin and her boss. “Oh….Don’t even think about
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In his bestselling 2020 novel, The Midnight Library, Matt Haig told the story of a woman, who, after deciding to end her life, finds herself transported to a new metaphysical plane in the form of a magical library. With his new book, Haig sticks to our ordinary world and makes it magical, which makes The
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