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At the 74th annual National Book Awards, the proceedings were charged with politics from beginning to end. Held in downtown Manhattan on Wednesday night, the evening opened with host LeVar Burton joking, “Are there any Moms for Liberty in the house? No? Good! Then hands will not need to be thrown tonight.” It ended with a joint statement from a group of writers calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The group’s statement came after the final award of the night: the National Book Award for Fiction, whi…
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“Why should truth matter?” asks a character in America Fantastica, Tim O’Brien’s first novel in more than two decades. It’s the question at the heart of American politics today—and the question that O’Brien has spent his entire career trying to answer. America Fantastica opens in 2019, when a “lying infection” has taken hold of the nation. Our narrator Boyd Halverson, a compulsive liar and disgraced journalist, now makes a living flooding the internet with “fresh untrue truth content.” Pushed t…
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Watch a young Queen Charlotte meet King George in the (very) dramatic first trailer for ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.’
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The ‘Rings of Power’ star is making history as the first person of color to play an elf in a Tolkien project. But really, the artist and activist has been breaking ground all his life.
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‘No Time to Die’ has long since left theaters, and rumors are swirling about
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Remember back in 2017, when Amazon cut a deal with the J.R.R. Tolkien estate for a cool $250 million? Before the ink had even dried, word on the street was that Amazon’s purchase of the Tolkien film rights would translate to a television series about young Aragorn, set long before the would-be King of Gondor was fighting wars and ruling kingdoms. But then, the show never got off the ground, and now, The Rings of Power is a month out from launching on Amazon Prime. For years, fans have been wonde…
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