In her third novel, Weike Wang follows married couple Keru and Nate on two vacations: the first on Cape Cod, the second five years later, in the Catskills. Keru, a Chinese American woman, and Nate, a white man who grew up in Appalachia, grapple not only with the usual challenges of marriage and careers, but
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Year in Music Huge blockbusters, breakout debuts, left-field gems, and much more The albums of 2024 hit us hard and soft, all year long. The music world was full of explosive chaos, all over the stylistic map, from the pop espresso on the airwaves to the club classics in your eardrums. A new generation of
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Wayne Northrop — a longtime television actor who appeared in over 1000 episodes of the soap opera “Days of Our Lives” — has died … TMZ has confirmed. The star’s publicist, Cynthia Snyder, tells us … Northrop passed away at the Motion Picture and Television Woodland Hills Home — an assisted living facility for those
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The Charts The Wicked soundtrack bows at Number Two, making it the highest debut for a big-screen adaptation of a stage musical ever Kendrick Lamar’s surprise album GNX debuts at Number One on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the publication reports, earning him his fifth consecutive chart-topper. The album debuts with 319,000 units in the
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During the course of a record Thanksgiving weekend, Universal’s Wicked: Part One has become the highest grossing movie ever at the domestic box office based on a Broadway musical. Through yesterday, the Jon M. Chu-directed, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande-starring feature counts $214.3M in the midst of its second weekend, defeating the lifetime gross of
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Book bans and best-of lists dominated the literary news during this shortened week in the U.S. Here are the highlights. 📚 NPR Shares Their Books List of Favorite Books of 2024 And for All Access members, here’s a big list of other interesting links from around the bookish internet. Membership Required The comments section is
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The Thanksgiving stretch is delivering an unprecedented estimated $422M at the domestic box office. AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron says that this weekend is “a national phenomenon” when it comes to moviegoing. That Wednesday through Sunday tally for all movies breaks the previous Thanksgiving record for all titles from 2018 when Ralph Breaks the Internet
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Eileen’s primary literary love is comic books, but she’s always on the lookout for her next literary adventure no matter what form it takes. She has a Bachelor’s in media studies, a Master’s in digital communication, a smattering of published short stories, and a seriously cute dog. Follow her on Bluesky. View All posts by
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“I hurt my back in NOLA and my doctors have instructed me to rest a little bit longer,” the singer explained Justin Timberlake has been forced to cancel an upcoming stop on his Forget Tomorrow World Tour after injuring his back. The singer announced the news on his Instagram Story on Saturday afternoon, writing, “I’m so sorry
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GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s BWRX-300 small modular reactor incorporates proven components. Courtesy: GE Verona GE Vernova is aiming to deploy small nuclear reactors across the developed world over the next decade, staking out a leadership position in a budding technology that could play a central role in meeting surging electricity demand and reducing carbon dioxide
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