Toronto book lovers don’t miss By The Lake Book Club 2025 events with award-winning Canadian authors

Calling all Toronto book lovers! You aren’t going to want to miss the new season of one of the city’s best book clubs, with three opportunities to read, discuss, and even meet the authors of an incredible lineup of books. As the summer cools off...

Tampa Native Author’ Book Based In Belmont Heights

Book Review: Pratik Majumdar’s ‘1975: The Year That Transformed Bollywood’

Pratik curates a powerful lineup of films—Sholay, Deewaar, Chupke Chupke, Julie, Jai Santoshi Maa, Aandhi, Nishant, and more—that span the commercial and the cerebral. The book positions Sholay not just as a blockbuster, but as a landmark in...

Kamala Harris Launches 15-City Book Tour For Her Memoir ‘107 Days’

Photo: Getty Images North America Former Vice President Kamala Harris is coming to a city near you. On Thursday (August 21), Harris announced that she was launching a 15-city tour this fall to promote her upcoming memoir, “107 Days.” The new...

Bon Appétit, Your Majesty Ep 1-2 Review: YoonA eats up romcom once again, Lee Chae Min ma...

500 years in the past, under the rule of a tyrannical King, a modern woman named Yeon Ji Young finds herself as the lead royal chef of Lee Heon. Bon Appétit, Your Majesty promises a return of fun K-drama days with YoonA making a return to the...

Chinese officials force censorship of Thai gallery’s art exhibit about authoritarianism (proving the exhibit’s point)

Last year, FIRE launched the Free Speech Dispatch, a regular series covering new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers better understand the global context of free expression. Want to make...

Two Authors Explore Identity Through Different Literary Lenses

Winnie M. Li, an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Birmingham, will discuss her third novel “What We Left Unsaid” with Edgar Award-winning author Naomi Hirahara on Monday evening at Vroman’s Bookstore. Li’s latest work...

Paul McCartney Plans New Album and UK Tour, Has Book Coming in November

Sir Paul McCartney is a busy guy these days! At 83, he is reportedly planning a tour in the UK, a book in November, and an album to boot, per music-news.com. The tour and the album are slated for next year. His fans will be elated by word of his...

2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9 Review: The Future of Family EVs is Here

Dad, you know when you see a family with kids older than yours--could be at any stage, really--and you think, "that's us in the future?" Welcome to the future. I can't speak to the makeup of your family, but I can talk about what will be in many...

Fake Apple Accessories Worth ₹6 Lakhs Seized From Bhopal's New Market; Police Tracing Supply Chain Of Counterfeit Product; Four Booked

Fake Apple Accessories Worth ₹6 Lakhs Seized From New Market; Police Tracing Supply Chain Of Counterfeit Product; Four Booked | Photo: Twitter/ @soumenspeak Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Police cracked down on a racket selling counterfeit Apple...

‘The Roses’ Review: Benedict Cumberbatch And Olivia Colman In Witty Remake Of Marital Slugfest

In 1989 director Danny DeVito brought a brutally funny dark comic approach to the screen adaptation of Warren Adler’s 1981 novel The War of the Roses. Now, 36 years later, along comes a remake from Searchlight Pictures called The Roses, leaving...

‘Americana’ Review

Paul Walter Hauser and Sydney Sweeney in Americana. (Courtesy Lionsgate via MovieStillsDB) Chronologically,1 Americana is bookended by Paul Walter Hauser’s Lefty Ledbetter delivering a wedding proposal. “People shouldn’t be alone. People should be...

FEATURED - 1948 Book Return, Soldier Surprise, Bathroom Contest

In this weekly series, we take you on a journey across the country to visit people making an impact on their communities. Author: cbs19.tv Published: 12:19 PM CDT August 25, 2025 Updated: 12:22 PM CDT August 25, 2025

Documentary maker, author will speak on 1955 Standard Oil explosion at Cal College event

It was at “one minute after sunrise” on Aug. 27, 1955 when a massive explosion at the Standard Oil Refinery in Whiting shook Northwest Indiana and beyond, followed by devastation that would last several days and remain in local memory. Wednesday...

Remembering Andrew Huse: Florida Author, Librarian, and Historian

Andy Huse served as a librarian at the University of South Florida for two decades. Photo courtesy of University of South Florida Florida’s historical community mourns the loss of Andrew Thomas Huse. Known to countless friends, scholars,...

Local author urges readers to ‘pause’with new book

Local author and founder of The Book Behind Awards, Nelly Shozana, has launched her latest novel, which focuses on the importance of taking a moment to rest while striving to achieve goals — something she said people often neglect. The novel,...

Movie review: 'The Roses' gives scathing new take on 'War' of divorce

1 of 5 | Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo Rose (Benedict Cumberbatch) see a counselor in "The Roses," in theaters Friday. Photo courtesy of Searchlight Pictures LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- The Roses, in theaters Friday, is quite a different...

You buy books but don’t read them? You’re practicing tsundoku, and that’s okay

If you buy books but don’t read them, that’s okay; you’re practicing tsundoku, and that’s okay. The Japanese word describes a habit found across societies where people keep adding books to their shelves even when they remain unopened, and for good...

James Ransome's new children's book "A Place for Us"

Author James Ransome joins us; he is the Children’s Literacy Legacy Award Winner and the author of the new book “A Place for Us.” The book is a poignant wordless picture book about an unhoused boy and his mother. Ransome’s illustrations speak...

New true crime book takes intimate look at criminal justice system

On today's show... Jim Reese is the author of the upcoming book "Coming to a Neighborhood Near You: The Repercussions of Crime and Punishment." We spend the hour with the author exploring the impacts of violent crime, the genre of true crime and...