New York Magazine has fired lefty political writer Ross Barkan, one of the biggest boosters of Mayor Zohran Mamdani in NYC journalism, for ripping off other authors’ work a shocking 67 times. Prior to ...

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2026, 400 pp. Whitney Strub’s new biography of Robert Kramer raises the perennial question of the “political artist.” Titled after Kramer’s aspiration for the ...

Donna Jean (Smith) Vincenti, 85, born April 8, 1941, in Odgen, Utah, to Russell Atkinson Smith and Afton Louise Terry Smith, died Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026, in the Paradise Creek nursing facility in ...

New state legislation allows residents to challenge books in their local school district even if they don’t have a student enrolled. Winston-Salem/Forsyth County officials are updating district ...

I read Claire Burke’s debut novel, Yesteryear, several months ago, and honestly, I mostly shrugged and moved onto the next novel on my to-read list. I didn’t dislike it. I wasn’t bothered by the twist ...

Gurus claim that smoking the secretions of certain toads offers a path to the divine. Others have had less sublime experiences.

Last Saturday night, I was able to to attend the opening weekend of Yolo County’s newest live theater venue, EnKore Theatre located at 1210 Commerce Ave., Suite 8, in Woodland. Finding the theater was ...

Now considered a masterpiece, the movie was met with criticism upon release, including some from the man who wrote the book from which it was adapted.

The blockbuster biopic “Michael” and a new documentary about Travis Barker are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

In this archive piece, first published in 1997, a young David Foster Wallace takes a scalpel to John Updike and the postwar “Great Male Narcissists”—not over the prose, which he ...

A sign of life from Ruben Hyppolite and an injury to Zavion Thomas are among the good and not so good things from Bears training camp on Sunday.