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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Finalists for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction The shortlist for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, which […]
Looks like President Lincoln’s distinctive stovepipe top hat is about to become a stovepipe Tom hat. According to Variety, Nice Guy Actor Tom Hanks is set to play the mourning President Lincoln in the film adaptation of Nice Guy Author George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo, which explores the President’s grief over his son, who died […]
If you’ve been watching the trials of the Wicked press tour with bated breath—or if you’ve been clenching your wand for nine straight months, just waiting for the release of a certain cash-grabby sequel—boy, have I got a hump day treat for you. The original screen adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. This 1910 silent […]
December 18, 2024, 2:29pm That’s right, reader. A new film is putting a sly spin on the patron saint of emo kids. Even before it made the enduring mold for a certain sort of sad boy—never forget that Dan “Gossip Girl” Humphrey was a mega-Werther fan—Goethe’s romantic tragedy rocked the literary world on its publication […]
October 22, 2024, 2:32pm Today Hulu released a trailer for the forthcoming Interior Chinatown, a limited series adapted from Charles Yu’s National Book Award-winning novel of the same name. The show—like the book—will follow Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural called “Black and White.” The world unravels around our hero as […]
February 4, 2022, 8:53am At the risk of reigniting the Sally Rooney Discourse—today, Hulu and BBC Three released a few early images from their upcoming adaptation of Sally Rooney’s bestselling first novel Conversations With Friends, which will premiere sometime this spring. (If you somehow don’t know what this novel is about—hi Jon—you can read an […]
