Hachette’s new conservative imprint sparks protests from employees Mary Kate Carr | November 11, 2024 Hachette Book Group has hired Heritage Foundation visiting fellow Thomas Spence to lead its new imprint, Basic Liberty.
Harry Potter series conjures up a rumored role for Mark Rylance Emma Keates | November 11, 2024 The invisibility cloak is starting to come off of HBO’s top secret casting process, and it makes sense that we would start with our fifth (fifth!) Dumbledore in less than 25 years.
Keke Palmer says Ryan Murphy “ripped” into her over Scream Queens schedule Mary Kate Carr | November 11, 2024 Palmer recalls clashing with the showrunner and experiencing a racist microaggression on set of Scream Queens.
The Pitchfork Music Festival bids Chicago adieu Emma Keates | November 11, 2024 R.I.P. to a windy city institution.
Exhausted, decadent imperial decline prevails in maximalist sequel Gladiator II Ignatiy Vishnevetsky | November 11, 2024 Gladiator II is both bad history and bad historical fiction, Ridley Scott’s maximalism never replicating the charisma of Maximus.