Welcome to The Best of Book Riot, our daily round-up of what’s on offer across our site, newsletters, podcasts, and social channels. Not everything is for everyone, but there is something for everyone. Welcome to September, where the vibes are all about kids being back in school, many readers are hoping for relief from the
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Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Christian Vierig Best Multi-Wear Bag Little Liffner Sprout Tote Mini Dark Brown Suede This bag is such a great size. Senior fashion commerce editor Dale Arden Chong says she loves its
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Summer Rona is a talented artist whose career spans music and film. She is a singer, songwriter, producer, director, and actress. Throughout her extensive career, she has garnered numerous awards and recognitions, and has toured globally, performing in seven languages. She has shared the stage with renowned artists like Jermaine Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Diana
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Despina Mirou is a multifaceted professional: an actress, writer, stand-up comedian, and astronomer. She is passionate, hardworking, and has a great sense of humor. Interestingly, she doesn’t watch TV, not even her own shows, preferring to spend her time writing and reading. The Greek-American actress Despoina Moirou has made a name for herself in Hollywood.
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“Where were you when the world stopped turning that September day?” Alan Jackson posed that musical question in the days after the terrorist attacks that took place on Sept. 11, 2001, when hijacked planes struck the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon, while another plane crashed into
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Prime Video has released the trailer for House of Spoils from Amazon MGM Studios and Blumhouse, which shows their newest horror thriller movie, starring Ariana DeBose. “The film follows an ambitious chef (DeBose) as she opens a restaurant on a remote estate where she battles kitchen chaos, crushing self-doubts… and a haunting presence who threatens to sabotage her at
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. In The Shack with Robert Caro Good long read on Robert Caro, The Power Broker at 50, and his progress on the next book. Spending decades on a multi-volume biography feels like a relic of
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American stand-up comedian and actress Anjelah Johnson was in her mid-20s when she first played Bon Qui Qui — the obnoxiously rude fast food employee turned music star on MADtv — back in 2007. Although the 2007-2008 writer’s strike prevented Anjelah from landing many lines on MADtv, the popularity that came from her Bon Qui
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While the future of the main John Wick film series remains shrouded in uncertainty considering the way John Wick: Chapter 4 ended, the franchise as a whole isn’t going anywhere. Next up is Ballerina, the Ana de Armas-led spinoff that takes place between the third and fourth John Wick movies, and will be one of
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Audiences hungry for David Cronenberg’s infamous brand of body horror may have hoped that 2022’s Crimes of the Future marked his return to the genre. That film, which formed an unofficial trilogy that began with 1983’s Videodrome and continued in 1999’s eXistenZ, featured several callbacks to the Canadian director’s recurring visual and thematic interests. The
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This spring, aspiring “indie outlaw” singer Sarah Gross performed a Patsy Cline-ified cover of “Red Wine Supernova” at a gig in Long Island. “Rip Hank Williams he would have loved Chappell Roan,” she wrote when she uploaded the video to TikTok in April, with a caption that’d soon become prophetic: “The honkytonk-ification of Chappell Roan is
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Well, that’s certainly something you don’t see when cruising past a McDonald’s. One of the fast food chain’s franchisees is using red arches instead of the traditional “golden” or yellow ones that are on just about every other of location across the world. Does McDonald’s Always Have Golden Arches? Think about it: How many times
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Tuesday, we covered the announcement of the 2024 National Book Awards Longlist for Young People’s Literature. Since then, this year’s National Book Awards Longlist for Translated Literature has also been released. The ten titles on the longlist were translated from six different languages—Danish, Arabic, Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, and Swedish. They explore everything from “disorienting
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A quick word of caution before we swan dive into an Olympic-size swimming pool of the most complimented cologne offerings available to you right now. No, it’s not to advise you against diving into cologne-filled pools, though… sure. That too. It’s to give you a friendly reminder that fragrances are entirely subjective. What’s going to
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Nilüfer Yanya is less interested in naming the feeling than learning to trust it. It’s not always a straightforward path; her songs have a way of winding around a range of themes and emotional states, finding warmth and purpose in the in-between where others would see a maze of unanswerable questions. “There’s nothing out there/
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Presented by Paramount Scares, Friday the 13th Week sees Bloody Disgusting heading to Camp Crystal Lake for a series of features that celebrate the Voorhees family and their influence. On Monday, the Halloweenies listed their 13 favorite kills in the franchise, and today, Rachel Reeves looks at other camp-adjacent scares. When Friday the 13th was
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