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In the last four years under the Trump administration and its anti-immigration policies, it’s become more important than ever, as Americans, to learn more about immigrant experiences. If you were born in the U.S. and don’t have any personal, firsthand experience with immigration, or any close friends who have that experience and feel comfortable enough […]
With the release of her new poetry book Dearly, Margaret Atwood talks to Slay in Your Lane’s Yomi Adegoke about what the year has meant to her. If there is one woman who knows a thing, or nine thousand, about the state of the world, it’s Margaret Atwood. And this week the acclaimed author talks […]
ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, ALRIGHTThe Oral History of Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused”By Melissa Maerz Richard Linklater’s 1991 breakthrough film, “Slacker,” starts with the director himself, riding a cab at dawn into Austin, Texas. He babbles about various dreams he’s had. He talks about a dream he had last night. A dream where nothing much happened. He […]
Recent audiobooks of interest: COMEDY IN COLOR, by Laugh Out Loud, read by a full cast. (Simon & Schuster Audio.) The first volume in a series of audiobooks from Kevin Hart’s Pluto TV franchise collects stand-up routines by 40 comedians, hosted by “Get Out”’s Lil Rel Howery. I WANT TO BE WHERE THE NORMAL PEOPLE […]
NIGHTS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENED By Simon Han How does a family find its footing after it leaves home for good? For the Chengs, who have immigrated from China, their new life in Plano, Texas, is rendered in a series of quick brush strokes, as if in a Raymond Carver story. Houses on either side of […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The acclaimed Hollywood director is switching filmmaking for novel-writing – for now anyway. Quentin Tarantino has previously teased he would get around to writing books after completing his 10 movies. And with […]
As part of his new book club for children, Marcus Rashford is writing a memoir that will dedicate a chapter to female role models – including his mum. We don’t need another reason to champion Marcus Rashford, but he’s just given us one anyway. The Manchester United player has already used his platform to ensure school […]
THE NINE LIVES OF PAKISTAN Dispatches From a Precarious State By Declan Walsh The question has confounded many: How does Pakistan stay alive? The 73-year-old nation born of a bitter postcolonial divorce has heaved through humiliating defeats, careened from coup to coup and stubbornly endured despite relentless forces working to unweave it. How? The New […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. George RR Martin has to be one of the best-known fantasy authors of the 21st century, following the success of A Song of Ice and Fire and its TV adaptation Game of […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. A veritable Renaissance man of showbiz, Gyles Brandreth is or has been a journalist, a novelist, Teddy Bear museum curator, a one-man showman, Wildean, a radio host, an actor, TV presenter, after […]