2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (647+ words) Broken English strips away the scandal to reveal the complex, defiant spirit of the late singer-songwriter. When Marianne Faithfull died last year, directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard had been working on a film about her for four years. In…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (453+ words) The noir label has been tenuously attached to all manner of crime fiction of late. But rather than being identified by a landscape (think rural or outback noir), or geography (Nordic noir), or even a setting (domestic noir), the real…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (96+ words) Aviation Week Isar Aerospace Focus Shifts To Ramping Up, Commercial Flights An Isar Aerospace Spectrum rocket takes off from Andoya, Norway Sept. 5 in the company’s first orbital launch. Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London,…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (156+ words) The Washington Post Valerie Stivers is a senior editor for UnHerd, from which this article was adapted. The actress Natalie Portman has always seemed like a person who wants to brand herself as smart and bookish — a trait that appears…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (94+ words) Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum Rocket Reaches Orbit In European Milestone Aviation Week Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum Rocket Reaches Orbit In European Milestone The two-stage Spectrum rocket launched Sept. 5 from the Andoya spaceport in Norway to reach orbit. Robert Wall is Executive Editor…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (64+ words) Brisbane Times September marks the start of the bumper Christmas season, when publishers release a huge crop of books from big names and small. Here are 18 of the many new titles out this month, with loads more to look forward…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (1113+ words) August 30, 2026 — 5:00am Works of fiction often come with a legal boilerplate disclaimer inside the front cover: “any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental”. Not so the latest novel by Rachel Cusk, the Anglo-American author who reinvented autofiction…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (181+ words) August 30, 2026 — 5:00am The ultimate argument of my PhD thesis was that the erotic can be an important site of power, one that has inspired revolutions, meaningfully critiqued corrupt authorities and even offered existential insight. If these are the historical origins of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (62+ words) Gold Coast Bulletin Liane Moriarty on her sequel to Big Little Lies Big Little Truths is the sequel to the global phenomenon from Australian best-seller Liane Moriarty. On Frances Whiting's Humankind podcast, she revealed why she wrote a sequel after…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (22+ words) The Oklahoman How the Charter purchase of Cox will affect Oklahoma customers...