Two days ago, Boards of Canada released Inferno, their long-anticipated LP and first album in 13 years. While almost everybody had to wait until Friday to listen, horror movie fans got to hear one of the project’s unreleased songs a little early: “The World Becomes Flesh” plays in Backrooms, the new A24 film directed by
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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’ve ever been on a cruise, there’s a good chance your personal information was just exposed in a major data breach. Carnival Corporation—the largest cruise line operator in the world—is alerting consumers of a recent hack affecting 6 million people. The incident has been claimed by the ShinyHunters hacking group, which has targeted hundreds
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Eric Appel‘s The Breadwinner (2026) is not actually Stan Dragoti‘s 1983 comedy Mr. Mom, though it’s easy to see how one might become confused. The similarity of a man struggling to parent his three children as his wife enters the workforce is obvious. The Breadwinner screenwriters Nate Bargatze and Dan Lagana even manage to lift a scene
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It’s hard to overstate the contributions DMX, who died in 2021 at 50, made to New York hip-hop history during his lifetime. This week, the city recognized that impact by naming the corner of School Street and Brooke Street in Yonkers, where the MC was born and raised, “Earl DMX Simmons Way.” Per the Yonkers
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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 stories we covered ourselves on Book Riot this week. Every month, the American Booksellers Association put together a list of the top 25 new book releases of the upcoming month as their
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When Health Editor Beth Skwarecki and Staff Writer Meredith Dietz pitched the idea of training for a Hyrox race, my first question was straightforward: What’s Hyrox? I imagined a CrossFit competition rebranded into a new social fitness craze by mashing together previous ones, like CrossFit meets SoulCycle, or HIIT meets Barre, or Peloton meets parkour.
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Big Thief have debuted a trio of new songs, “Carry,” “Forgive the Dream,” and “Space and Time.” They introduced the tracks to the world in an appropriately dreamy fashion: during an acoustic performance on Belgium’s Radio 1, recorded in a sun-drenched field between the Irish cities of Dublin and Limerick. Watch the set below. During
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