Matt Evans loves creating musical landscapes that seem mysterious but are imbued with a sound that’s curious and welcoming. The New York-based drummer, composer, and experimentalist mixed warm, unique melodies against synths and percussion on records like New Topographics (2020) and Soft Science (2022), and created calmer, more ambient soundscapes on touchless (2021) has once
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What To Know Kaitlin Olson announced the passing of her father, Don Olson, on Instagram, sharing an emotional tribute. In her post, Olson described her father as her “first love, first protector, and forever favorite person.’ Friends and co-stars, including husband Rob McElhenney, offered heartfelt condolences. High Potential star Kaitlin Olson is grieving the loss
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Book lovers with kids in their lives can’t help but be choosy about what books to place into the hands of young readers. We linger over fuzzy first memories of books, how they shaped our imaginations, how we thumbed through them time and time again, and how we lovingly and literally made our mark on
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When you send an unsolicited book of essays to a small nonprofit publisher, you’re probably not expecting it to become one of the biggest word-of-mouth sensations of the 21st century so far. But that’s the story behind today’s Zero to Well-Read subject, and no one was more surprised by this turn of events than its
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The Dinner Party by Cat Fitzpatrick (Trans Woman Verse Novel) Kitchen Venom by Philip Hensher (Queer Fiction) (Rerelease) Canon by Paige Lewis (Nonbinary Fiction) The Body Riddle by Sam K MacKinnon (Nonbinary, Polyamorous Fiction) Returns and Exchanges by Kayla Rae Whitaker (Sapphic Fiction) Take Me with You by Steven Rowley (Queer Guy Speculative Fiction) The
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May is a fun month for new releases as the publishing world gears up for summer. But what do you do when your holds lists are increasing and patrons are still coming to the desk to ask about the buzziest books? Offer readalikes, of course! Here are three new releases your patrons are hearing about,
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Blackstone Publishing and Monica Murphy When an heiress’s summer romance goes up in flames, she finds herself in need of a job and a place to stay. The one thing she doesn’t need is another failed romance—but things are heating up quick with the town’s smoldering fire captain. When Sparks Fly is a swoony small-town
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Last week felt like the Week of Comics. We released our list of the best comics of the century so far, and Comic-Con announced the nominees for the 38th annual Eisner Awards. It looks like we’re bringing a tinge of that energy into this week with a graphic adaptation of the megabestselling LitRPG. More on
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Alia Bhatt attended the opening ceremony of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, wearing a custom Tamara Ralph Haute Couture gown that delivered a soft, sculptural take on red carpet dressing. Screenshot The Bollywood actress wore a bright coral silk crêpe marocain corseted column dress featuring a structured neckline, a graphic plunging cutout
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Recomposed: Music, Climate, Crisis, Change Kyle Devine Verso July 2026 From protest songs to charity concerts to celebrity political endorsements on social media, pop music has long sustained its cultural legitimacy through engagement with political causes. Yet mixed results have also revealed the limits of music’s ability to shape the world outside its immediate sphere.
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It seems like a calm Sunday evening in San Francisco here on the 19th of April, but a musical storm is brewing at the SFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab. The “future fusion collective” known as Instant Alter are in town, bringing jazzy improv and uplifting vibrations to help listeners transcend the chaos of the modern
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Izabel Goulart attended the “Garance” screening during the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France wearing Roberto Cavalli Archive. The Brazilian model wore a sheer black tulle column gown featuring a high neckline and long sleeves, intricately embroidered with tonal jet beading and sequin embellishments. The silhouette incorporated see-through
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Demi Moore made an appearance at the “Paper Tiger” premiere during the 79th Cannes Film Festival wearing a pink silk Matières Fécales Fall/Winter 2026 look titled “The One Percent.” CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 16: Jury Member Demi Moore attends the “Paper Tiger” screening during the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on
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Certain moments feel made for taking stock. A 25th-anniversary. A tenth album. Metric hit both of those marks recently, having passed the quarter-century mark as a band not long before recording their latest album, Romanticize the Dive. Maybe the numbers played a part in looking back. Either way, the Emily Haines-fronted quartet moved in the
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The story of Lip Critic’s second album, Theft World, is a strange one indeed. While their widely acclaimed debut, Hex Dealer, turned heads for its manic, danceable rhythms, their new album is driven by a bizarre, real-life conceptual crisis. During a previous tour, an obsessed fan stole Kaser’s identity to purchase the band’s entire discography,
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