National Library Week is a moment to pause and reflect on what libraries truly are and what they make possible. They are, of course, places of books. But they are also places of access, of memory, of connection, and of discovery. They bridge books, media, community, and culture. They are where people come to connect,…
Andrew Hacker, a scholar of political science who wrote a host of provocative books on education, race relations and what he called a growing chasm between women and men, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 96. His wife, Claudia Dreifus, said the cause was complications of stomach cancer. To say that…
When Howie Pyro, the bassist and co-founding member of D Generation died in 2022, it shook his former D Gen bandmate Jesse Malin to the core. Last week, the New York songwriter released a tribute song to Pyro, “Hollywood Forever,” with a B-side of the Clash’s “Rudie Can’t Fail.” Malin takes the Pyro homage a…
Acclaimed US novelists Susan Choi and Lily King are among the writers shortlisted for this year’s Women’s prize for fiction, in a lineup dominated by debut authors and independent publishers. The six titles contending for the £30,000 award range from a US campus love story to a coming of age tale set in 1960s Bradford,…
Dave Mason, the English singer, songwriter and guitarist who wrote mainstays of the classic-rock canon like “Feelin’ Alright?” and “Only You Know and I Know,” and who was a founding member of the seminal band Traffic before starting a successful solo career, died on Sunday at his home in Gardnerville, Nev. He was 79. His…
Kenneth Tynan’s widow Kathleen, in her introduction to his letters, states, Writers hate to write, almost all of them. She goes on to describe, in loving remembrance, her husband, blocked as a writer, turning to his journals, where he might deliver himself of a self-punishing complaint about his own indolent and hateful character. Writers do…
RAYE’s career arc is better than any tale told in a Disney film. Born and raised in London, the singer and songwriter is a former BRIT School student and nominee for BBC Music’s Sound award, an identifier of the next big thing. Then, she landed a record deal with Polydor, a frustrating era that boiled…
The Shadow of the Object, the new novel from Mexican-American author Chloe Aridjis, opens with an eruption of violence: Flora, a fortysomething woman, is visiting her mother and stepfather in Mexico City for the first time in many years when one evening, as she is bidding them goodnight, Diego – the household’s beloved guard dog – springs…
THE PALM HOUSE, by Gwendoline Riley When a new editor is appointed to run an old magazine or newspaper, beware if the green boss’s opening statements to a seasoned staff include the formula: “It’s great to be here at X, and now that I am, we’re all going to do our best to make X…
Kingnewsiwre / Press release / A Dutch-registered human rights foundation, founded by Sri Lankan refugee Shanta Dalugamage, is empowering the next generation in Sri Lanka through journalism and human rights education—bridging communities across continents with an inclusive and interfaith approach. Rathnapura, Sri Lanka / Ulft, Netherlands – August 2025 – On 27 July 2025, Stichting…
