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The Hotel by Daisy Johnson review – chilling tales for Halloween

There are shades of The Shining and Shirley Jackson in these atmospheric short stories set around a haunted hotel in the Fens

The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2024

Netflix quietly adds violently funny crime series based on bestseller

Murder Mindfully sees a lawyer turn killer after going on a mindfulness course

WhatToWatch · Oct 31, 2024

Women dominate fiction shortlist for Scotland’s National Book Awards

WOMEN writers dominate the fiction shortlist for Scotland’s National Book Awards, which organisers said showcase the “dazzling variety” of…

The National (Scotland) · Oct 30, 2024

Nationalism is not patriotism: 3 insights from Orwell about Trump and the 2024 election

Shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States in January 2017, George Orwell’s 1949 novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” shot to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list. Apparently, lots of people thought Orwell had something relevant to say in that political moment.

The Conversation · Oct 30, 2024

Shattered by Hanif Kureishi review – picking up the pieces

The Buddha of Suburbia author’s wildly inspiring memoir of illness and defiance

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024

George R.R. Martin Just Revealed HBO's Abandoned Plan to Solve a 'Game of Thrones' Mystery

A canceled spin-off could've filled one of the show's most annoying blind spots, but now our only hope is that Martin himself will write a solution in 'The Winds of Winter.'

Inverse · Oct 29, 2024

Beyoncé Warns Tina Knowles to Not "Spill Too Much Mama Tea" in Her Memoir

"I'm happy for you to share some of the stories..."

Marie Claire · Oct 29, 2024

Mom who famously claimed she was abducted by aliens says Netflix made her look like a liar in new docuseries

Exclusive: A 1989 alien “abductee” is suing to block the release of The Manhattan Alien Abduction, claiming she was smeared as a liar by a late ufologist’s scorned ex-wife

The Independent UK · Oct 29, 2024

From a scream to a whisper – ‘quiet horror’ novels are making a comeback

Ever since its inception with Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto (1764), a delirious mixture of violent death and familial conspiracy, gothic literature has been a restless cultural form, constantly mutating and assuming new guises but always exploring the darker side of life. Sometimes, its fashions are those of…

The Conversation · Oct 29, 2024

Apple's Most Anticipated Sci-Fi Apocalypse Show is Making A Major Change From the Books

'Silo' Season 2 veers from the book a bit, but a possible Season 3 would change immensely.

Inverse · Oct 29, 2024