Many Disney and Pixar characters are actually based on the appearance and mannerisms of real-life people, including ...
The world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Tomiko Itooka.
The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at ...
Film director and screenwriter Jeff Baena, who was married to actress Aubrey Plaza, has died, authorities confirmed. He was ...
The Netflix One Hundred Years of Solitude’s key virtue and weakness is its dutiful following of orders, leading to a bear-hugging loyalty to the text.
"I had to get over that a long time ago," said David Bowie. “But then as we all know, history is all revisionism. One makes ...
By Linda Holmes Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has ...
A novel of British nobility; a memoir of American aristocracy. A new book traces shifts in the nation’s treatment of aging adults — for better and for worse. By Dwight Garner Try this short ...
It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...
With the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, Turkey sees an chance to send home up to 4 million Syrians who came there during Syria’s civil war, amid growing public hostility toward the refugees. Some ...
November 25, 2024 • Books We Love returns with 350+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 12 years of recommendations all in one place — that's nearly 4,000 great reads. ...
After later teaching herself to play guitar with the aid of a Pete Seeger instruction book, she went to art school ... after she signed to Reprise in 1967; David Crosby offered to produce her debut ...