Month: March 2025

Author Gary Rivlin says regulation can help control how AI is used: “AI could be an amazing thing around health, medicine, scientific discoveries, education … as long as we’re deliberate about it.”

Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel in nearly 15 years. It follows a “Prairie Witch” in Dust Bowl-era Nebraska.

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Apps like ReelShort, FlickReels and DramaBox offer short clips that add up to movie-length stories. Plus, they’re filmed vertically, so you can follow the twisty plotlines without turning your phone.

When the king took bread and bit down on a hard golden crust, he realized his mistake, and said, “What if we had it not work like that?” So Dionysus modified the blessing such that King Midas turned everything he touched into gold unless that was bad.

In the gleefully grisly action movie Novocaine, Jack Quaid plays a sweet, nerdy guy who does not experience physical pain. He falls for a woman (Amber Midthunder) who’s determined to get him to leave his safe, risk-averse life behind. That happens in a big and very bloody way when she gets kidnapped by bank robbers, and he sets out to rescue her.

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Set in a Philadelphia neighborhood that’s been ravaged by opioids, Amanda Seyfried stars in this heartfelt Peacock series that centers wounded communities and families.

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Rogen plays a flustered Hollywood studio head in a new Apple TV+ show. These executives “really could get fired at any moment for anything,” Rogen says — and their feedback is often based in fear.

This week brings a number of promising new reads — but none more eagerly awaited than Sunrise on the Reaping. We offer 5 books to consider picking up.

Sunrise on the Reaping recounts the 50th annual Hunger Games, telling the story of Haymitch Abernathy. It’s themes and events conjure images of today’s U.S. political climate.

Martha Stewart talks gardening, wanting to be “one of the girls” and her 101st book with NPR Morning Edition host Michel Martin.

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