Month: March 2025

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Lady Gaga has kept busy as a singer and actor, but it’s been five years since she’s released a full-blown pop album. Now, she’s back with Mayhem, which has already produced three hits — including the chart-topping Bruno Mars duet “Die With A Smile.” It’s got bangers, it’s got ballads, it’s Lady Gaga through and through.

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What does it even mean to be trans? That’s the first question Torrey Peters asks readers in her new book, Stag Dance, and it’s the question that Brittany and Torrey everyone should be asking themselves right now.

Stag Dance is a collection of four novellas that poke into the dark corners of gender, delving into taboo topics and investigating the line between trans and cis. Brittany sits down with Torrey to discuss Stag Dance, what makes a transition, and the raised stakes for trans people in the current political climate.

It’s been five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. This week, we’re bringing stories of people who found an unexpected dose of joy amid so much devastation.

New York Times editor David Enrich talks about a wave of recent legal attacks on journalists — led by tech billionaires, corporations and political figures like President Trump.

A reader is taken aback by her best friend’s reaction to the possibility that she might want kids. He says that if she had kids, it would change everything between them. Friendship experts weigh in.

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Care and Feeding chronicles life in the culinary world. All the Other Mothers Hate Me follows a mom turned amateur detective. Plus, Karen Russell’s first full-length novel since Swamplandia!

Willow Winsham’s new book on witches, past and present, offers a fun, fast, well researched historical summary that is also a stunning work of art.

It’s so much fun spending hours gathering the ninety-seven things I’ll need for the day and then layering all of them on my body.

George Wallace has been doing stand-up for fifty years. Known for his evergreen humor, he’s practically royalty in Las Vegas, where he’s done so many residencies he’s lost count. Wallace talks to Bullseye about his love of the 70s, welcoming everyone in the room as a performer, and the influence of preaching on his comedy style.

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Mark Carney once lead the central bank of Canada and then was tapped to do the same job in England. So he knows a lot about government and finance but he has never held elected office. This weekend he was elected to be head of Canada’s Liberal Party which means he’ll soon be prime minister. We learn more about the man who takes the job at a time of strained relations with the U.S.

And the Palestinian city of Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, is so renowned for it’s soap that the process of making it has been listed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. We go to one of the oldest soap factories there.