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Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival 2025: Two Days of Books, Authors & Conversation
Edinburgh Evening News
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July 11, 2025
The Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival returns for 2025 with two days of thought-provoking conversation, powerful storytelling, and a welcoming space for readers and writers alike this autumn. Taking place on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 September at...
Review: Some Like It Hot Brings Tap Magic to DCPA Buell Theatre
Westword - Colorado
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July 11, 2025
On July 8, Denver's Buell Theatre was packed for the opening night of the first national tour of Some Like It Hot, and from the first jazzy downbeat, it was clear this wasn’t just another glossy Broadway export. This is a show that provides the...
Review: Better Go Mad in the Wild
Cineuropa
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11/07/2025 - Miro Remo's newest genre-defying hybrid work provides an insight into two twins living in the wild, a kind of life that might seem unbelievable for many viewers How much should we hold on to what is perceived as “common knowledge”?...
Books on BookTok: 'AI might be able to write a book that sells, but I am not convinced it can write a book that matters'
The Bookseller
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This week BookTok creators reflected on how the online community would respond to an AI-authored novel. During his talk at The Bookseller’s Marketing and Publicity Conference 2025, NielsenIQ BookData’s head of publisher account management Philip...
Review Maalik: Powerful, Entertaining and Bloody Amazing
IWMBuzz
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July 11, 2025
The 1980s era gets a pettifogging nod, as you steer your eyes through Maalik. The setting gets you roaring. And so does Maalik. Rajkummar Rao commands the screen with an unflinching glare, showcasing sheer intensity, raw brutality, and the kind of...
Review Aap Jaisa Koi: Love Story For The Ages
IWMBuzz
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July 11, 2025
If the amalgamation of French and Sanskrit can happen, love can too transcend peripheries. Aap Jaisa Koi certainly make an incarnation of that. A rom-com that we have all probably been waiting for. It is a slow-paced love build-up between two...
Author looks at how region grappled with pandemic population influx
Petoskey News-Review - Michigan
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Author Tim Mulherin explores Northern Michigan's transformation in his new book, "This Magnetic North: Candid Conversations on a Changing Northern Michigan." The book examines the impact of increased population growth on the region's culture and...
Review: ‘Too Much’ has the chaos of ‘Girls,’ but it’s at its best in moments of calm
Hartford Courant - Connecticut
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July 11, 2025
By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Lena Dunham, of “Girls” fame, with her husband Luis Felber, has created a romantic comedy, “Too Much,” which premiered Thursday on Netflix. It’s lighter in tone than that previous show but still comes with plenty...
Book review: ‘The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)’ by Jussi Adler-Olsen
The Somerville Times - Massachusetts
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July 11, 2025
By Dennis Fischman Recently, I heard that Netflix had issued a new TV series, Dept. Q, based on a set of mystery novels that fall into the category of Nordic Noir. The first season is getting good reviews, and I thought I would go take a look at...
Review - Walter Weller: The Decca Legacy
Gramophone
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Richard Whitehouse revisits the recordings of the Viennese violinist turned conductor Walter Weller’s death a decade ago deprived the world of a conductor who, though steeped in the Austro-German tradition, was no slouch when recording music...
Booklore is the Plex of self hosted e-book libraries, but is sadly irrelevent when DRM free e-books are so hard to obtain legally
Notebook Check
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July 11, 2025
Booklore allows you to host your own e-book library, but the difficulty of obtaining DRM free ebooks makes this a self-hosted app only for those happy to operate in grey legal areas (ImageSrouce: Notebookcheck) Booklore is the Plex or Immich of...
Review: ‘Superman’ gets high with a little help from his friends
Scroll.in
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Superman is back – and he is not alone. He has for company other superheroes, dazzling visual effects and the superdog Krypto. Played by writer-director James Gunn’s own pooch Ozu, Krypto is indubitably one of the star attractions of the...
Review: MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL at Broadway San Jose
BroadwayWorld
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While many performances deliver a pleasing experience, only a rare, luminous creation possesses the alchemical magic to truly dazzle, delight, and forever enchant an audience, leaving an indelible mark on their hearts and minds. And what, you ask,...
Book By Paul Kapur, Trump’s South Asia Pick, Captures Pakistan’s Jihad Strategy & India’s Response
News18
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July 11, 2025
Last Updated:July 11, 2025, 08:28 IST Kapur’s 2017 book 'Jihad as Grand Strategy' is more than an analysis of Pakistan’s use of jihad as state policy. It anticipates much of what is unfolding today 'Jihad as Grand Strategy' by S Paul Kapur.In and...
Review: Sovereign — Movies for the Rest of Us with Bill Newcott
Saturday Evening Post - Texas
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July 10, 2025
Weekly Newsletter The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! Sovereign ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Rating: R Subscribe and get unlimited access to our online magazine archive. Run Time: 1 hour 40 minutes Stars: Nick Offerman, Jacob Tremblay, Dennis...
Review of ‘A House Without Cats and Other Stories: The Mozhi Prize Anthology 1’
The Hindu
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July 11, 2025
The stories in this collection are rooted in setting and subject. | Photo Credit: Getty Images In A House Without Cats and Other Stories, the inaugural Mozhi Prize anthology, nine stories translated from Tamil present a literary world both...
Book review: Understanding Pius XII and the Holocaust
Sooner Catholic
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July 9, 2025 by Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B., the Sooner Catholic This book on Pope Pius XII, who was pope from 1939 to 1958, focuses on what he did to help Jews and others during World War II. “Understanding Pius XII and the Holocaust,” is written for...
Author Heidi Siefkas spotlights Coulee Region stories in new book
WXOW - Wisconsin
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A Trempealeau native is highlighting local voices in her latest book focused on resilience and recovery. TREMPEALEAU, Wis. (WXOW) – A Trempealeau native is highlighting local voices in her latest book focused on resilience and recovery. Heidi...
REVIEW | ‘Superman’ refreshes the superhero movie by keeping it light
Texarkana Gazette - Arkansas
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July 11, 2025
The latest version of the first superhero and his world is colorful in both senses of the word, a refreshing change from the dark self-seriousness of so many other comic book adaptations. Writer/director James Gunn's "Superman" dispenses with the...
Book review: The Study: The inner life of Renaissance libraries by Andrew Hui
Church Times
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July 10, 2025
THE London art dealer Colnaghi’s has a showroom in St James’s. It boasts a subterranean book-lined sanctum. On all four sides, a gallery looks down into this perfect cube, a basement room with a black-and-white checked floor reached by a white...