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Hulu Is Adapting My Favorite Comic With Kevin Bacon Starring, And I Don't Think Streaming Is Ready For Southern Bastards

This is going to be like Fargo and Drive-By Truckers had a baby.

Cinemablend · Apr 12

15 Years for 1,100 Pages: Why January 2026 is the Darkest Month for The Winds of Winter Fans

As The Winds of Winter inches past 15 years in the making, George R.R. Martin's unfinished epic still holds back a slate of major battles from frozen Winterfell to besieged Meereen.

International Business Times UK · Apr 12

Relative Failures by Matthew Sturgis: Fascinating tales of sibling rivalry

Perhaps Matthew Sturgis could add more siblings to this engaging and original study...

Evening Standard · Apr 12

‘We feel this incredible tension at all times’: what happened to small-town USA when extremists moved in

In his new book, Michael Edison Hayden captures the bitter saga between the founders of far-right publication VDare and the residents of a West Virginia town

The Guardian - US · Apr 11

“At home, you’re tempted to go over the top with everything. ‘Maybe if we put on another double guitar part – that’ll fix it.’ You can spend forever making a song worse”: Paul Gilbert on how the original POTUS's words opened new frontiers for his guitar

The shred titan's new LP, WROC, combines words from George Washington with incendiary rock and super-sized melodies. Oh, and he had weird AI experiences along the way. We'll let Gilbert explain all...

Guitar World · Apr 11

How to paint a book cover fast

Artist Brett Bean shares his process for creating cover art when the deadline was yesterday.

Creative Bloq · Apr 11

Swedish exhibition explores life of 18th-century Black diarist

Born into slavery, Adolf Ludvig Couschi Badin became part of Swedish royal court and left legacy of books and letters

The Guardian - UK · Apr 11

Queen Camilla loves this gritty ITV crime drama and her connection to the show and author runs much deeper than you think

Grace is the successful adaptation of Peter James's long-running book series and there are quite a few royal links

Woman & Home · Apr 11

Tradwife fiction is this year’s most talked-about literary genre

THE READING LIST: Tradwife influencers are lightning rods for debates about gender roles and conservative ideology. Now they are literary protagonists too. Katie Rosseinsky explores the rise of this new genre and its most talked-about entry yet, ‘Yesteryear’ by Caro Claire Burke

The Independent UK · Apr 11

Son of Nobody review: More proof that Yann Martel is a literary paper tiger

Although this time, at least, Yann Martel’s tale is about people, he can’t resist his animal flourishes once again

Evening Standard · Apr 11