Month: May 2026

The novel is the first work translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the award, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.

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Reid’s quartet makes music that seems inspired by a variety of sources, ranging from modern dance to children’s games. Her latest album is one of her most compelling.

Ward learned the term “respair” — meaning the recovery of hope after despair — during the pandemic. Her new book On Witness and Respair is an essay collection on grief, motherhood and survival.

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Don’t worry—we have the most brilliant scientists in the world working to make sure it’s not in the Cuisinart mixer’s best interest to kill us all.

A gothic horror tale, a creepy science-fiction romp, a sweeping romance, an intergenerational saga, a book about birds — here are the fiction and nonfiction our critics are most looking forward to.

Stephen Colbert spent Monday’s show revisiting material that never made it to air, performing for a studio audience made up entirely of his staff.

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The latest season of Saturday Night Live felt transitional in many ways, but it was full of blockbuster pop stars, up-and-coming bands and musical legends. We ranked them from worst to best.

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Dohrn’s parents, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, helped found the the Weather Underground. “I knew that the FBI was chasing us,” he says. His memoir is Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young.

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“You will read this once this afternoon and not again until you’re in your fifties, but, by that time, I will have already died, alone in my apartment, totally nude, except for my ankle monitor.”

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ends on Thursday. Here’s how he has evolved to meet the moment.

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