How Paul Feig's ‘The Housemaid' Became a $300 Million Box Office Wonder When No One Was Looking

The female-skewing psychological thriller - starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried - has already passed up 'Bridesmaids' ...

Kiran Desai explains why it took her 20 years to write her latest novel ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’

The Booker Prize-winner was speaking at the Kolkata Literary Meet in conversation with the festival’s chief coordinator ...

Forgotten, priceless medieval book found in school library

For generations, a misidentified medieval manuscript was hidden in a 474-year-old English boarding school’s library. After a ...

Do writing retreats actually work? Reader, I finished my novel in style

The distractions of daily life can make writing a book a frustrating task, so I sought boltholes offering creative support and solitude in inspiring landscapes ...

Local Legends: How Bengaluru Bus Conductor Built India’s Largest Free Library – Meet Padma Awardee Anke Gowda

Anke Gowda, a former Bengaluru bus conductor, won the Padma Shri for building Pustaka Mane, the world’s largest free-access ...

SLAC scientists use X-rays to search for the world’s oldest star map

Using powerful X-rays, researchers at SLAC are trying to recover erased traces of a 2,000-year-old star catalog that could ...

Secluded saga: Memoir tells story of couple who homesteaded in the North Fork

At first glance, it was nothing out of the ordinary. An unmarked manila envelope, tucked into a box of childhood mementos. An ...

At Sundance’s screenwriting lab, young writers learn from — and give inspiration to — Hollywood pros

Away from the crowds of the Sundance Film Festival, Sundance's screenwriters lab gives young writers a chance to learn from ...
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A Song of Ice and Fire 'Won't Be Finished' if George RR Martin Dies Before He Completes It

I think the majority of A Song of Ice and Fire fans have accepted that the books will never be completed. It's been 15 years ...

Jennette McCurdy is so not a child actor anymore. She's an author with a capital A.

It's Jennette McCurdy, author, not Jennette McCurdy, former child actor. We spoke to her about new book "Half His Age" and ...
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A New Museum Exhibit Shows That Medieval People Were Just as Obsessed With Their Cats as We Are Today

A careless moment in a 15th-century workshop involving one curious cat walking across freshly inked parchment has turned into a rare time capsule of everyday medieval life. More than 500 years later, ...
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Revolutionary War shipwrecks are caught in preservation debate

The push is on to save relics from the Battle of Valcour Island, 250 years after American forces clashed with the British on ...