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 ...

Powell’s Books is sounding the alarm on an email scam dangling a book deals, appearances and other fake offers to tempt authors. The Portland bookseller posted on social media Friday warning customers ...

Amid musings on faith, a characteristic veil drops, a mesh obscuring as much light as it admits. Is the loud echo following ...

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 ...

In “One Night Only,” director Will Gluck creates a quirky world where intimacy is regulated like a crime, focusing on two characters who repeatedly cross paths while trying to make the most of the one ...

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.