As the world celebrates the 100th birthday of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe, actress, comedian, and performer Despina Mirou is honoring the icon in the most fitting way possible—by portraying Monroe once again, this time in the new television drama series N.Y. State of Mind. For nearly a decade, Despina has captivated audiences across the United
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Few settings are more deceptively dangerous than a picturesque rural community. As many have found to their misfortune, beneath the herbaceous borders, parish council meetings and carefully maintained public image lurk old grudges, quiet humiliations and lives that have curdled into resentment. A Plot to Die For taps expertly into that tradition, combining the petty
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Two years after a sequel to Amazon’s Road House was first announced, the director is finally offering an update on Jake Gyllenhaal‘s action thriller. While we’re still waiting to see whether it’ll make the 2026 movie schedule, director Ilya Naishuller is talking about the massive scope of this action-packed follow-up. Naishuller had a chance to
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Jessi Draper Reveals Relationship Status During AMAs 2026 Date With Marciano Brunette (Exclusive) Jessi Draper isn’t keeping her dating life a secret. While attending the 2026 American Music Awards May 25, the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star—who was at the event with Vanderpump Villa‘s Marciano Brunette—shared an update on her dating life amid her
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As the new month starts, we’re sitting back and taking stock of the latest goings-on in the world of BIPOC lit. While we’re getting the temporary shutdown of a fire literary magazine, we’re also getting a star’s reading list and what sounds like a delicious New Orleans-set romantasy. Let’s get into it. HEATED RIVALRY Star
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If you’re looking for a work of fiction that’s charming from start to finish, Villa Coco is the book for you. It’s seductively entertaining from the get-go, with a luscious opening line: “The little Tuscan train station, brown shutters against yellow paint, seemed so fanciful you might unwrap it and find it was chocolate.” Indeed,
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A entity called Intrinsic Entertainment Collaborative, ink barely dry on its certificate of incorporation, is making an ambitious run for Letterboxd, whose private equity owner is exploring a sale of the popular platform for indie film lovers. Social entrepreneur Elizabeth Joyce created Intrinsic as the home of Community Center, a new collaborative marketing engine for
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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. Here are the biggest headlines from last week. The New Yorker‘s Best Books of 2026 So Far The publication we keep in stacks around our homes to let everyone know how smart we are has
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Having a strong religious foundation was my parents’ top priority when I was growing up. They were college-educated and supplemented my academic education at home. I picked up my huge vocabulary from them, but I didn’t know that K-12 schools had libraries, much less librarians. The first time I entered a school library that wasn’t
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In Robin Stevenson’s sensitive, engrossing novel The Book of Jupiter, readers see into the life of a child deeply imbedded in the control and perils of a cult community. The stars have never been so limitless, yet also limited, for 13-year-old Ara, who has grown up cloistered in a small rural homestead known as Jupiter
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Not every crime is solved by a grade A detective or a hotshot sleuth, and in this case, an eclectic and rompy friend group bestows upon themselves the duty to solve the messiest of offences. Nicole is a Black lesbian junior lawyer with big dreams and near-zero social life; Brandon is a gay Jewish hotelier
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