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Posters of films are on display at a cinema in Shanghai, Aug. 31, 2025. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Hollywood has lost one of its most lucrative theatrical markets. It’s unclear if it will ever win it back. The Chinese box office was once a coveted space for American-made movies, so much […]
Dia Dipasupil | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. America’s top 50 philanthropists gave a whopping $22.4 billion to charity in 2025, according […]
Today, the Women’s Prize Trust announced the longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, which highlights sixteen novels—including seven debuts, seven American writers, and nine offerings from indie publishers—published in the last year. “Across a longlist that is international in both scope and setting, these sixteen books masterfully demonstrate the power of fiction to examine […]
It was an email about Jeffrey Epstein’s penis that ultimately ended Kathy Ruemmler’s run as Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer, people close to her tell the Post. Ruemmler, who dealt with Epstein through one of her legal clients, is mentioned thousands of times in the Epstein files. But that one crude remark by Epstein, and her […]
Welcome, readers, to the first happy list of 2026! It’s already shaping up to be another year where easy joy goes thin on the ground, so celebrating the little things feels more important than ever. Here’s what’s making your friendly neighborhood Lit Hub staff smile this Friday. In New York City, it’s festival season—for the […]
Tis a truth universally acknowledged that in the second week of January, resolutions made in earnest over champagne toasts fizzle out like fireworks. This is the rubber meet road week, when we (or, I) start to crave structure around pledges to practice daily pilates, or “prepare healthy meals.” The institutionally hosted reading challenge has become […]
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] shot and killed a woman in south Minneapolis during a morning confrontation between community members and federal officers […] Several residents […]
Put this in your pipe and smoke it: Donald Trump just legalized marijuana across the US. As On The Money has been reporting since April, our famously drug-and-drink-averse president has been inching ever closer to making marijuana significantly less criminal in the eyes of the federal government. On Thursday, it finally happened. He signed an […]
The economy cabin of American Airlines A321XLR. Leslie Josephs/CNBC American Airlines on Thursday flew the first customers on a skinny, long-range plane that it hopes will change air travel. The airline’s head of network planning now has to decide where else it should fly. The first Airbus A321XLR for a U.S. airline took off from […]
Just in time for the holiday season, NYNext asked some of the Big Apple’s most influential tastemakers — CEOs, media stars and hospitality pros — what they’re giving and what they’re hoping to unwrap themselves. Have a look. To give: Blueberries, jam and cheese from Josh Pond farm in Maine “Their jams taste like they […]
