3+ week, 1+ hour ago  (890+ words) When Jim Jarmusch won the Golden Lion at last year's Venice film festival, it came as something of a surprise. The best film award had been widely expected to go to the emotionally demanding The Voice of Hind Rajab, not…...

13+ hour, 30+ min ago  (422+ words) How can we lay our ghosts to rest, especially in a world torn open by war? Sunyi Dean takes this question literally in The Girl With a Thousand Faces, the story of an alternate Hong Kong where ghosts walk among…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (231+ words) Sonoma Valley Authors Festival headliner Maria Semple's latest book, "Go Gentle," has been named as Oprah Winfrey's 122nd must-read recommendation. Semple will speak to festival attendees at the free "Authors on the Plaza event from 11 a. m. to" 2 p. m. May 2, alongside fellow authors Dave…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1274+ words) Shop TODAY Stages Is Headed to Los Angeles " Here's How to Get Your Ticket The last time Ella Smith and Lindsay Hall were on a girls' trip, it was a memorable night out in Austin, Texas. "Lindsay was burning down…...

1+ week, 40+ min ago  (206+ words) Critically acclaimed author Percival Everett shares the inspiration behind his most recent Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "James," which is a retelling of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" through the eyes of Huck's enslaved companion, Jim. Everett opens up to TODAY's…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (50+ words) This dense and incantatory fable from musician and poet Williams ((US) a.) and multimedia artist Sorne melds political critique, spirituality, and Afro-mythology with cyberpunk imagery. In the East. .. Saul Williams and Morgan Sorne. 23rd Street, $29. 99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-62672-199-9 More By and About this Authorchevron_right...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (481+ words) Welcome to Yesteryear Ranch, where our narrator raises her children on a farm in Idaho. She drinks raw milk and eats farm fresh eggs. She has 5 million followers on Instagram. RASCOE: And then one morning, she wakes up cold and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (51+ words) A pair of Victorian servants plot to make their employers fall for each other in this witty upstairs-downstairs double romance from Waldman (Love and Treasure). Alice Lockey is the smart, ambitious. .. Ayelet Waldman. Knopf, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-101-87534-6 Paperback - 384 pages - 979-8-217-28786-4...

2+ hour, 29+ min ago  (106+ words) TJ Klune, an author of fantasy and romantic fiction featuring gay and LGBTQ+ characters, will discuss his work at 6 p. m. Saturday, Aug. 24, at Books on the Bosque in Albuquerque. Locations underway in Los Angeles, New York to reflect their surroundings, "enlarge…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (368+ words) As her dark debut about a tradwife who wakes up in the past is made into a film by Anne Hathaway, the novelist explores the sinister truth behind the barefoot influencers Gingham dresses, linen aprons; toddlers smiling toothily out from…...