Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Richard Powers on What We Do to the Earth and What It Does to Us Hua Hsu writing a long profile of Richard Powers in The New Yorker. Happy Monday to me. I’ve read a
Month: September 2024
To some, James Earl Jones is best known as the voice of Darth Vader in six of the Star Wars movies in order, among other projects. Others might think more about his live-action roles, like when he played Terence Mann in Field of Dreams. Regardless, Jones was an icon in the film and TV industry,
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice must have been uttered thrice at Warner Bros. as it hit its projected take for its opening weekend. $110 million was enough to make it the third biggest opening of the year, just behind Deadpool & Wolverine and Inside Out 2 respectively. The nostalgia effect is again a big money maker for summer
The White Stripes are suing former President Donald J. Trump over the unauthorized use of their 2003 Elephant song “Seven Nation Army” in a campaign video posted last month by Margo Martin, Trump’s deputy director of communications. Both Meg and Jack White are listed as co-plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which lists six counts of copyright
Reliance Jio on Thursday announced the beginning of its True 5G services at the Char Dham temples in Uttarakhand as the doors of Badrinath were opened for devotees. It will enable all Jio True 5G users from across the country visiting Kedarnath, Badrinath, Yamunotri and Gangotri dhams to latch on to Jio’s True 5G network
Space is an unnatural environment for humans. We can’t survive unprotected in a pure vacuum for more than two minutes. Getting to space involves being strapped to a barely contained chemical explosion. Since 1961, fewer than 700 people have been into space. Private space companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin hope to boost that
There was a time when Apple only announced a single phone per year, but those days are long over. In the latest Apple product unveiling, the company has shown off four new iPhone 16 models. The iPhone 16 and 16 Plus offer most of Apple’s latest features and a much better processor, but the iPhone
My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. “Tiger Girl Combats Wolf Hound” “Part 01 – The Cunning Trap Of The Wolf Hound!” A crime wave has hit the city of Ralston and the perpetrators are no mere amateurs. An evil cabal of international criminals, also known as I.N.F.A.M.Y., has sent a new generation of
Columbia Pictures’ Venom: The Last Dance is essentially going day-and-date in China on October 23. The pic hits domestic theaters on Oct. 25. The first Venom in 2018 received a China grossing close to $270M unadjusted for inflation; the first Tom Hardy movie repping just over a third of the Marvel movie’s $856M global gross. The post-Covid
This Friday is the 13th, and you know what that means. So does the Halloweenies, which is why the gang has re-assembled at Camp Crystal Lake to take another look at the Friday the 13th franchise. If you recall, the series covered the iconic series way, way back in 2020. Today, however, they’re sharpening their
Mike Shinoda has opened up about why Linkin Park chose to keep their band name for the newly relaunched line-up. READ MORE: “This is not the end, this is not the beginning”: Linkin Park look to the future with new faces Last week Linkin Park announced their comeback with new singer Emily Armstrong and songwriter
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is expected to launch early next year as the company’s flagship smartphone. The South Korean technology conglomerate is reported to bring in a host of design changes, including a larger screen. The purported handset is now said to have a thinner profile compared to its predecessor but may be taller, according
In 2006, people found bats in New York’s Howe Cave that had a peculiar, fuzzy white substance growing on their snouts. This was the first sighting of white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that has devastated bat populations across the US. Now, a new study has found more than 1,000 human infant deaths resulted from the
Image: Nintendo Life Remember the annoying Talking Flowers from Super Mario Bros. Wonder? The ones that would shower you with helpful advice like “onwards and upwards,” “Hey!,” and “WoOoAAhh” as you ran past? Well, you’ll soon be able to have one of your own as toy manufacturer San-ei Boeki has revealed an all-new talking plushie
The final trailer for Venom: The Last Dance will arrive this week. Venom is going for the three-peat this fall. After being a surprise hit franchise for Sony, Tom Hardy‘s Venom films have established themselves as steady box office performers and genuine romps for movie fans. Venom: The Last Dance is the third installment in
I have mixed feelings on “the book was better” discourse when it comes to feature adaptations. On the one hand, it is obviously fair to compare a movie with its source material, but it’s never a totally fair comparison. Not only do films have restricted creative real estate to work with in the form of
Image via Searchlight Pictures There’s a pervasive medical myth that women’s bodies have been designed to forget the pain of childbirth. This would allegedly better the odds that a woman would choose to go through the process again. The lie is both an acknowledgment of the brutality of the birthing process and a false promise
Kendrick Lamar will perform the halftime show at Super Bowl LIX, in New Orleans, on Sunday, February 9, 2025. Watch him make the announcement in the promotional video below. Super Bowl LIX takes place at New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome. Apple Music is the halftime show’s presenting sponsor, so the 2025 event is formally known as
Instagram may be developing a new feature that will allow users to share their currently playing tracks on Spotify with others in real-time, as per claims by a tipster. The feature, dubbed Share from Spotify, is said to work via Instagram Notes – short text updates visible in direct messages (DMs) which users can share
Imagine a future where internet connections are not only lightning-fast but also remarkably reliable, even in crowded spaces. This vision is rapidly approaching reality, thanks to new research on terahertz communications technologies. These innovations are set to transform wireless communication, particularly as communications technology advances toward the next generation of networks, 6G. I’m an engineer
There has been all sorts of information about the development behind The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, even though the game has been available to play on the Nintendo Switch for nearly a year and a half now. Nevertheless, Eiji Aonuma still has some interesting things to share about the sequel to The
OG Silent Hill 2 fans will love this addition to the remake. Konami has revealed a new feature that will be implemented in its upcoming remake of Silent Hill 2 that fans of the original game should particularly love. At this point in time, Silent Hill 2 is exactly one month away from its launch
Nadia Ahmed’s The Ghost Who Was Afraid of Everything is not only a charming Halloween tale, but also an excellent year-round story about facing one’s fears. Young Finn is scared of many things, including tree branches, butterflies, the color orange and flying. On Halloween, he stays home in his attic—noisy humans also make him anxious—while
Refresh for latest…: Warner Bros unleashed Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice this weekend, as the ghost with the most tallied up a $145.4M global start. That’s in line with where we saw it ahead of the weekend, and includes $110M from domestic as well as $35.4M from 69 international box office markets. The launch gives the sequel
The Earth is a scary place, and with over 4 billion years of history, it should be. In that time, depending on what you believe, there have been dinosaurs, evil empires, war crimes, murders, and natural disasters. It seems creepy in and of itself that people would want to revisit these places. However, because humans
Elton John has said he thought Donald Trump referring to Kim Jong Un as “little rocket man” was “brilliant”. The former President used John’s 1972 single ‘Rocket Man’ as the inspiration for his nickname for the North Korean dictator, and in an interview with Variety at the Toronto Film Festival, the singer has given his
Apple Watch Series 10 — or Watch X — may be unveiled at the “It’s Glowtime” Apple event on September 9. Details about the Apple Watch Series 9 successor have surfaced online over the past few weeks, suggesting several key features and upgrades it may arrive with. A new report claims the watch will likely come with
Even as the community of nations on Earth fractures further into rival blocs, an effort to build greater cohesion in space is gathering momentum. The extent to which this succeeds, or not, may set the course of global peace and security for the foreseeable future. Diplomats along with military, industry, civil and academic experts are
Oh dear, players have been continuing to give the devs behind Once Human their feedback for season 2, and apparently it’s been “quite demoralising.”
Once Human hasn’t exactly had the smoothest of starts for a live-service game, with players not being the happiest about those seasonal resets, as well as some frustrating server
My Rating ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. “Terror Beneath The Earth!” A new terror stalks the back alleyways of Los Angeles, California. With the first night of the full moon, dozens of reports begin flooding the police tip lines. With no arrests, two LAPD detectives are now actively investigating the reports of a real-life
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