Category: Arts & Entertainment

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience’s attention.[1]

The arts represent an outlet of expression that is usually influenced by culture and which in turn helps to change culture. As such, the arts are a physical manifestation of the internal creative impulse.

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Here Are The Winners Of The 2018 Kirkus Prizes

The 2018 Kirkus Prize winners (from left to right): Severance, by Ling Ma; Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James; Call Them by Their True Names, by Rebecca Solnit.

Ling Ma’s debut, Severance, won for fiction. Crown earned Derrick Barnes and Gordon James the young readers’ prize. And Rebecca Solnit’s essays, Call Them by Their True Names, won nonfiction laurels.

(Image credit: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Agate Bolden; Haymarket Books)

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The Remarkable Photos Of Lynsey Addario

Noor Nisa, 18 (right), was in labor and en route to the hospital with her mother and husband, in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, when his car broke down. Lynsey Addario ended up driving Nisa to the hospital, where she delivered a baby girl. November 2009

The award-winning photographer tells the stories behind the profoundly moving images in her new book, Of Love & War — and confesses that she still gets nervous before a new assignment.

(Image credit: Lynsey Addario)