A Maine library just turned a cookbook request into a viral moment — and it’s delightfully spicy. In one clip posted to Augusta’s Lithgow Public Library Facebook account, a woman approached the ...

Millions of words. Thousands of authors. The Morning Star of Lingao is barely known outside China—but it contains the secret to the country’s modernization and malaise. Ma Qianzhu was unsatisfied with ...

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The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...

The family at the center of Madeline Cash’s first novel, Lost Lambs, is falling apart. Bud and Catherine Flynn have begun a “nonconsensual nonmonogamous spell.” They are too busy scorching each ...

Tayari Jones, Ann Patchett, George Saunders and Veronica Roth return with new novels; Jennette McCurdy makes her fiction debut; and more. Credit... Supported by By Miguel Salazar and Laura Thompson If ...

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Over two years since its initial announcement, Key’s upcoming all-ages romance visual novel anemoi is finally playable by way of a free demo (available only in Japanese for now), which can be ...

Through its partnership with Google’s 100 Zeros production arm, Range Media Partners has optioned Jen Marie Wiggins’ 2024 novel “The Good Bride.” The book is now in the works to be adapted for ...

The magpies appear in the first scene of “Cannon,” in a darkened restaurant littered with broken furniture and plates. I count twenty-one birds, perched and staring. Two figures, the titular Cannon ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the center of the human brain. This aids our ...