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Which Disney Friendship Is The Cutest?
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In honor of "Friends" premiering 31 years ago, who do you think are the *best* and *worst* characters on the show?
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‘Day of the Jackal’ Finds New Lead Writer in ‘Lockerbie: A Search for Truth’ Scribe David Harrower as Creator Ronan Bennett Steps Back (EXCLUSIVE)
“Day of the Jackal,” the Eddie Redmayne-fronted TV spy series that became a ratings smash for both Sky and Peacock last year, has a new lead writer for its second series. Ronan Bennett,…
“The Lowdown” Is a Noir for Our Era
Some actors you can watch doing the same thing over and over again. Cary Grant built a career on smirking suavity; Cate Blanchett has made an art form of falling apart with tragic…
EXCLUSIVE: Dior Reveals Jonathan Anderson’s New Lady Dior Campaign
DIOR IS A LADY: Jonathan Anderson has been teasing his womenswear debut for Dior with a series of red carpet looks. Now his vision is coming into focus, with the reveal on Monday of his…
The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith
If it were up to me, for example, I would very happily switch that rickety, always ill-fitting term “humanism” with something broader, more capacious. A bright, shiny neologism that would…
It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy
These are all developments that at any other time would have shocked the entire political establishment. Now? We’re used to it. Yes, sorry, we’re used to it. It’s just another day that…
The Autocrat of English Usage
In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor for fact. McKelway was writing a six-part Profile of Walter Winchell for the magazine, and he…
Ian McEwan Casts the Climate Crisis as a Story of Adultery
At the start of “What We Can Know,” Ian McEwan’s eighteenth novel, the year is 2119 and the humanities are still in crisis. Thomas Metcalfe, a scholar of the literature of 1990 to 2030,…
The Uses and Abuses of “Antisemitism”
How a term coined to describe a nineteenth-century politics of exclusion would become a diagnosis, a political cudgel, and a rallying cry. Source link
Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America
As for pace, “Shadow Ticket” reads like one of its subplots, about the Trans-Trianon 2000, a two-thousand-kilometre motorcycle circuit through the disputed territories of Central Europe,…
Democrats Look for a New Villain: The Groups or the Billionaires
The shiniest, newest path toward salvation, many Democrats believe, is the Abundance movement, which celebrated its second annual conference in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. Though…
The Right’s Insidious New “Manhattan Project for Babies”
The Heritage Foundation is at it again—this time with a new proposal it’s branding as the “Manhattan Project for Babies.” Drawing on the language of World War II-era urgency, Heritage is…
Singapore stocks slip on Monday as US futures fall; STI down 0.1%
Decliners outnumber advancers 315 to 233 after 1.9 billion shares worth S$1.6 billion change hands Local stocks inched down on Monday (Sep 22), as declining American indices are set to…
Mapletree Investments offloads Melbourne office building for over A$90 million, at steep discount
The price tag is almost 38% lower than its original purchase price of A$145 million in 2017 Temasek-owned real estate group Mapletree Investments has divested a Grade A office building in…
People Are Sharing The Perfect 10/10 Movies They Can Never Bring Themselves To Watch Again
—LordVoldeySnort "This was going to be my response as well. A movie has never made me feel such a way before. I left the theater feeling emotionally drained." —ntmrkd1 "Something about…
Trump Drug Boat Bombings Take Darker Turn as Damning New Facts Emerge
Several weeks after President Trump ordered a military strike on a small boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing 11 people supposedly suspected of drug smuggling, this saga has gotten much…
Singtel faces another Optus crisis after fatal outage linked to three deaths in Australia
Singtel faces a fresh crisis at its Australian division Optus after the government started an investigation into an emergency call outage that resulted in multiple deaths. Last week’s…
Beta Film Nabs Marital Caper ‘A Lovely Mess – Rob the Rich’ Ahead of Mipcom (EXCLUSIVE)
Beta Film has come aboard “A Lovely Mess – Rob the Rich,” a sharp social dramedy where keeping up with the Joneses means turning to crime. Blending adventure with romantic comedy and class…
‘House on Fire’s’ Dani de la Orden Set to Helm ‘El Director,’ Based on David Jiménez’s Lid-Lifting Non-Fiction Book (EXCLUSIVE)
Dani de la Orden, director of 2024 breakout “A House on Fire,” is set to adapt for Beta Fiction Spain “El director,” the best-selling non-fiction book written by David Jiménez, about his…
I gave ChatGPT $500 of real money to invest in stocks. Its picks surprised me
When OpenAI launched its new GPT-5 model in August, the company bragged loud and hard about how GPT-5 is its “smartest, fastest, most useful model yet” and how interacting with it was like…
HSBC’s Roberts says the bank’s future in Asia, Middle East
The future of HSBC Holdings is in Asia and the Middle East because of the amount of wealth and the capital flows between the two regions, according to the top executive who heads the…
Ikea’s outgoing CEO on succession, sustainability, and knowing when to move on
After eight years at the helm of Ingka Group, the operating entity behind home-furnishing giant Ikea, CEO Jesper Brodin is stepping down. Brodin explains why now was the right time to make…