Month: October 2025

The Xbox Ally X isn’t the handheld console the name implies. But it’s still sold out, despite debuting as fans rage against price increase to Game Pass.

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It’s the peak of the fall migration season. This is when bird deaths from window collisions tend to spike, even though simple solutions can prevent this.

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Before there was Rodgers and Hammerstein, there was Rodgers and Hart. Richard Linklater’s new film meets lyricist Lorenz Hart on the night he’s watching his partnership with composer Richard Rodgers fade away.

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Every Monday night for the past five years, chef Samin Nosrat makes dinner with friends. She explains how she’s been able to maintain this ritual, plus her “criminally good” recipe for garlic bread.

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Rebecca dominates du Maurier’s legacy, but she wrote plenty of other macabre novels and short stories. A collection called After Midnight gathers 13 of these tales, with an intro by Stephen King.

NoiseCat is the son of an Indigenous Canadian father and white mother. After a cultural genocide, he says, living your life becomes an existential question. His new memoir is We Survived the Night.

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Washington, D.C.’s vending machine LitBox distributes books, with a serving of hope as local writers struggle with arts funding cuts.

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Director Richard Linklater and actor Ethan Hawke discuss their new film Blue Moon, which focuses on one fateful night toward the end of lyricist Lorenz Hart’s life.

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