Month: November 2022

Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah The engrossing 10th novel from Nobel laureate Gurnah is filled with compassion and historical insight. Bitingly funny and sweetly earnest, Mathews’ debut is one of those rare novels that feels just like life. Not since Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend has a novel so deftly probed the magical and sometimes destructive
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News Roberta Flack Reveals ALS Diagnosis The disease has “made it impossible [for Flack] to sing and not easy to speak” By Quinn Moreland November 14, 2022 Facebook Twitter Roberta Flac, August 2017 (Paul Zimmerman/WireImage) Facebook Twitter Roberta Flack has been living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The progressive neurodegenerative disease, also known as Lou
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The Tree Hill Ravens are a flock again. The cast of One Tree Hill—including Chad Michael Murray, James Lafferty, Hilarie Burton Morgan, Bethany Joy Lenz, Austin Nichols, Shantel Van Santen, Robert Buckley, Jana Kramer, Antwon Tanner, Lee Norris, Barry Corbin, Bryan Greenberg, Stephen Colletti, Kate Voegele, Tyler Hilton, and Bevin Prince—all came together for a very special reunion this weekend. The epic get together, which took place on Nov. 13, happened in Wilmington,
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Sentimental style. Kate Middleton paid tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II though her fashion on the first Remembrance Day since the monarch’s death. While attending the Festival of Remembrance event at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Nov. 12, alongside her husband Prince William and King Charles, the Princess of Wales wore two special jewelry pieces that once belonged to her late grandmother-in-law.
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How important are individuals in the shaping of history? Twentieth-century Europeans knew leaders whose decisions, good or ill, transformed their countries, the continent and, in some cases, the world. Ian Kershaw, one of our leading historians of the period, focuses on 12 of them in his enlightening and stimulating Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers
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What a joyous day! We don’t talk about Bruno, but we can talk about how Gabrielle Union and husband Dwyane Wade‘s daughter Kaavia James Union Wade celebrated her fourth birthday at a party that was both fantastical and magical. The theme: Disney‘s Encanto. Wearing a lavender dress with floral accents, the guest of honor dressed up as Isabella, heroine Mirabel’s sister,
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“Weird Al” Yankovic and Daniel Radcliffe are wildly famous for completely different reasons. The former became a parody icon for reimagining songs like Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” and Madonna’s “Like A Virgin,” and the latter spent his upbringing playing the beloved wizard Harry Potter. And yet, the two collide for the fresh 2022 movie release
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