Kids aren’t reading for pleasure—and more than tech is to blame
A quarter-century ago, David Saylor shepherded the epic Harry Potter fantasy series onto U.S. bookshelves. As creative director of children’s publisher Scholastic, he helped design and…
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‘Dawson’s Creek’ Full Cast to Reunite for Live Script Reading to Support F Cancer and James Van Der Beek
For the first time since the series’ 2003 wrap, the full cast of “Dawson’s Creek” will be back together in one room. On Monday, September 22, the cast will come together at the Richard…
I Genuinely Can't Watch "The Princess Diaries" The Same Way Again After Reading These 21 Facts
At the soundstage's rededication ceremony, the Disneyland Band played music from Mary Poppins, with Dick Van Dyke, Richard Sherman, and Roy E. Disney speaking at the event, too. In his…
Jinkx Monsoon Mocked J.K. Rowling's Anti-Trans Views By Reading The Author's Name
"Oh, dear. That is not a feminine name in the slightest." View Entire Post › Source link
I Won't Watch "Clueless" The Same Way After Reading These 34 Fascinating Behind-The-Scenes Facts
34 'Clueless' Behind-The-Scenes Facts You Never Knew This week marks the 30th anniversary of Clueless — and what better way to celebrate than to learn some fun facts about the classic?…
Rachel Kushner’s Advice to Writers
The novelist Rachel Kushner recently taught a class at Stanford that concerned, as the course catalogue advertised it, “the sacred art of stealing from the world.” All four of Kushner’s…
How to tell if the article you’re reading was written by AI
So, we’ve all been there. You’re two paragraphs into a blog post. The headline was catchy enough, the intro kind of made sense, and now your eyes are glazing over. You read over a word, a…
What The New Yorker Was Reading in 1925
Several months before the first issue of The New Yorker appeared, Harold Ross’s fund-raising prospectus promised, along with much else, that “Judgment will be passed upon new books of…
Malika Favre’s “Literary Heights”
For the cover of the July 7 & 14, 2025, special Fiction Issue, the artist Malika Favre chose an unusual setting to portray someone captivated by a book. “I really admire these brave men…
I Can't Watch "Jaws" The Same Way After Reading These 13 Behind-The-Scenes Facts
13 Facts That Will Forever Change How You See 'Jaws' 1. Director Steven Spielberg got hold of an advanced copy of the 1974 novel Jaws by Peter Benchley before it was published and knew…
A Summer Reading List of Lighthearted Mysteries
For many readers, summer is the time for breezy, undemanding books—the kind you can toss in a beach bag and finish before the sunburn sets in. Sue Halpern, a former New Yorker staff writer…
What’s Happening to Reading?
What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an unremarkable activity, essentially unchanged since the advent of the modern publishing…
What We’re Reading This Summer: Mega-Reads
Unlike Peter Thiel and Giorgia Meloni, I did not grow up with “The Lord of the Rings” in my life, and, reading it now with my son, it’s hard to pinpoint what about it he finds so…
Sarah Jessica Parker Said She Reads Two Books a Day: Here’s What’s on Her Summer Reading List
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Sarah Jessica Parker is a known bibliophile, often…
Books on the ultrarich dominate the Modern CEO summer reading list
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from…
Don’t Buy New Jeans Without Reading My Review on J.Lo’s New Favorite Pair
Whenever Jennifer Lopez steps out in denim, it's a moment worth noting. There's something about how she effortlessly elevates the casual bottoms that catches my eye. While I've long…
‘I’m a big believer in reading a room’: Kate Aronowitz of Google Ventures on balancing business and creativity
Kate Aronowitz tells me she first set out in graphic design because it felt like a discipline that helped her bring order to things. Many years later, she has a love-hate relationship with…
US: Wall St opens higher on gains in Apple, in-line inflation reading
WALL Street’s main indexes opened higher on Friday (Jan 31) on gains in Apple following its strong sales forecast, with an in-line reading for the Federal Reserve’s favoured inflation…
Low math and English scores mark the nation's report card, California and L.A. included
Instead of hoped-for improvements from pandemic-era campus closures, math and English test scores of fourth- and eighth-graders largely held steady or declined nationwide — results that…
Russian parliament passes first reading of an adoption ban for countries allowing gender transition
MOSCOW (AP) — The lower house of Russia’s parliament on Wednesday gave overwhelming approval to the first reading of a proposed law to prohibit the adoption of Russian children by citizens…
German police break up reading by far-right extremist Sellner
Police in Germany shut down a reading by far-right extremist author Martin Sellner in Neulingen in the western state of Baden-Württemberg late on Saturday, and issued him with a restrainig…