Just as you did when its predecessor hit the big screen, you stare in wonder at the visual mastery on display in the new animated film, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.” Like 2018’s acclaimed “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” the second chapter is more than a comic book come to life. It’s akin to a million lovingly create paintings being mashed together in the world’s greatest ...
The Plot Thickens John Banville, the Booker Prize-winning author of "The Sea" and numerous other acclaimed novels, has a pretty great side hustle: He writes crime fiction, presumably in his spare time, set in 1950s Dublin and featuring a troubled, hard-drinking yet brilliant pathologist known as Quirke, or sometimes Dr. Quirke. (If Quirke has a first name, I don't know it.) Until recently, ...
FICTION: Emma Törzs' "Ink Blood Sister Scribe" is "enthralling." "Ink Blood Sister Scribe" by Emma Törzs; William Morrow (416 pages, $30) ——— If Olivie Blake's "The Atlas Six" seduced you with its library of ancient secrets, if you swooned over Deborah Harkness' enchanted manuscript in "A Discovery of Witches," then let me introduce you to Minnesota author Emma Törzs' "Ink Blood Sister ...
Well, yes, you could go do outdoorsy things this summer. Or you could read. Here are six new books that are good summer reads. Wishing you a season full of good books! "The Guest" By Emma Cline (Random House, $28) Emma Cline's previous novel, "The Girls," followed a young woman in the throes of a cult led by a Charles Manson-like figure; her latest, "The Guest," focuses on another young woman, ...
FICTION: Luis Alberto Urrea's captivating novel dives into adventures of female volunteers in World War II. "Good Night, Irene" by Luis Alberto Urrea; Little, Brown (416 pages, $29) ——— In the musical "Hamilton," George Washington croons to aide-de-camp Alexander Hamilton, "History has its eyes on you." But do the Founding Father's words apply to kitchen staff, grunts in trenches and ...
FICTION: In Ore Agbaje-Williams' bitterly funny novel, a friend disrupts a volatile marriage. "The Three of Us" by Ore Agbaje-Williams; G.P. Putnam's Sons (192 pages, $26) ——— As a teenager, few works hit me like Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The mind games and layers of anger, grief and love that glued husbands and wives together offered a revelatory window into ...
Earlier this year, legendary costumer Ruth E. Carter made history as the first Black woman to take home two Academy Awards. Her win for 2018's "Black Panther" was the first in costuming for a Black person and the first Oscar for Marvel Studios. Her second, for "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," marked another record: the first repeat in the category for an original film and its sequel. Safely ...
Don't Miss "We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death and Child Removal in America" by Roxanna Asgarian; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (297 pages, $28) ——— Roxanna Asgarian's shattering book is classified as "true crime" but it's less about solving murders — South Dakota natives Jennifer and Sarah Hart drove their car, with their six drugged children in back, off a California cliff — than ...
Books in brief "Master Slave Husband Wife" by Ilyon Woo; Simon & Schuster (416 pages, $29.99) ——— If anything, Ilyon Woo's subtitle, "An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom," undersells her spellbinding book of nonfiction. It's the story of Ellen and William Craft, an enslaved couple who fled a Georgia plantation in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen (her father was her owner) disguised as a ...
NONFICTION: Tracing the events that culminated in a 60-year-old murder. "Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night" by Lisa Belkin; W.W. Norton (402 pages, $29.95) ——— A doctor, a convict and a cop. Even though a bar will play a role, and two of those men will walk into it, this is no setup for a joke. Instead, the three mark the convergence of very different ...
CHICAGO — In the first nine days that Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was on tour this month for his novel, “Chain-Gang All-Stars,” 23 mass shootings occurred in this country. More than 30 people were killed. Many more were injured. That’s according to the Gun Violence Archive, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that defines mass shootings as four or more killed or wounded. (They take their cue from the ...
Seven books — fiction, nonfiction and a graphic novel — that cue the waterworks. It's easy for a book to produce a tear or two from me, but I can only recall a couple that led to full-on heaving and ugly-crying: Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones" (duh) and current bestseller "Hello Beautiful," by Ann Napolitano. Napolitano wrote the blockbuster "Dear Edward," which I liked, but it's nowhere ...
NONFICTION: A biography of perhaps the most famous war correspondent of all time. "The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II" by David Chrisinger; Penguin Press (400 pages, $30) ——— My father lived through World War II and, like many of his generation, said very little about it. But one name he spoke with reverence was that of journalist Ernie Pyle. A slight, driven man ...
He believes selling human organs should be legal, climate change is a “socialist lie,” sex education is a ploy to destroy the family and that the Central Bank should be abolished. He also could be Argentina’s next president.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy worked strenuously Tuesday to sell fellow Republicans on the debt ceiling and budget deal he negotiated with President Joe Biden and win approval in time to avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default.
The nation’s financial watchdog says it’s working to ensure companies follow the law when using artificial intelligence as concerns grow over increasingly powerful AI systems like ChatGPT.
A New Hampshire stadium is being recognized for playing a largely unheralded role in helping racially integrate baseball. Much of the attention has been on Jackie Robinson, who broke the major league color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers. But a year earlier, Hall of Fame catcher Roy Campanella and Cy Young award-winning pitcher Don Newcombe helped make the Nashua Dodgers, a minor league affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the first racially integrated baseball team in the United States.
A growing number of Capitol rioters are facing hefty fines on top of prison sentences at their sentencing hearings. That's because prosecutors appear to be ramping up efforts to prevent them from profiting from their participation in the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
A U.S. study suggests 1 in 10 people are getting long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic.
Aryna Sabalenka initially thought the boos and derisive whistles coming from the French Open crowd were directed at her after a first-round victory. Instead, the negative reaction was aimed at her opponent, Marta Kostyuk, for not participating in the usual postmatch handshake at the net. Kostyuk, who is from Ukraine, avoided so much as any eye contact with Sabalenka, who is from Belarus, after the match, instead walking directly over to acknowledge the chair umpire.
The debt ceiling deal has come with just days to spare before a potential first-ever government default. Now President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy must round up enough Republican and Democratic votes to pass the measure quickly.
Both sides can point to some victories in the debt ceiling deal reached between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. But some conservatives already are expressing concerns that the compromise doesn't cut future deficits enough.
Samuel Blais scored two goals to rally Canada to a 5-2 victory over Germany in the final of the ice hockey world championship. It's a record 28th world title for Canada and its second title in three years. Lawson Crouse, Tylor Toffoli and Scott Laughton also scored for Canada. Latvia down the United States 4-3 in overtime in a bronze medal game. It’s the first top-three finish for Latvia at the tournament.
The Republican speaker gathered top allies behind closed doors at the Capitol as negotiators pushed for a deal.
Lawmakers in several states are looking to loosen child labor laws, even as the federal government cracks down on surging violations.
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