Month: May 2024

Grace Lapointe’s fiction has been published in Kaleidoscope, Deaf Poets Society, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, and is forthcoming in Corporeal Lit Mag. Her essays and poetry have been published in Wordgathering. Her stories and essays—including ones that she wrote as a college student—have been taught in college courses and cited in books and
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Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo has been behind its rivals Alibaba and JD.com when it comes to international expansion. Now Pinduoduo has launched a U.S. e-commerce site called Temu. Rafael Henrique | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images PDD’s value-for-money positioning and growth of its Temu marketplace has helped the tech giant lead China’s e-commerce
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George R.R. Martin is calling out film and TV adaptations of books that don’t live up to their source material. In a new blog post, the author recalls a panel with Neil Gaiman, the creator of the comic book series Sandman, which Netflix adapted into a series. Gaiman was involved in developing the Netflix series,
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The Conservatives will promise to replace “rip-off degrees” with 100,000 apprenticeships each year by the end of the next parliament if they win the general election. The Tories will outline their plans on Wednesday to replace the “worst performing” courses with high-skilled apprenticeships, which they say will provide “more opportunities and greater financial security”. Politics
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Albert S Ruddy, the Oscar-winning producer of The Godfather, has died aged 94. Ruddy died “peacefully” on Saturday at the UCLA Medical Centre in Los Angeles, according to a spokesperson, who added that among his final words were: “The game is over, but we won the game.” He produced more than 30 films including The
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Believe it or not, summer is almost here — at least, if you’re in the northern hemisphere. That means celebrating the only way readers know how: by building an ambitious summer reading TBR. But what exactly is a “summer read”? That’s a topic hotly (get it?) debated on the bookish internet. See also: beach reads,
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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive clip of the Tribeca Festival premiering film Bang Bang.  Directed by Vincent Grashaw, with a script penned by Will Janowitz, the film stars Tim Blake Nelson (The Ballard of Buster Scruggs), Glenn Plummer (Speed), Andrew Liner (Gray Matter), Kevin Corrigan (The Departed), Nina Arianda (Being The Ricardos), Erica Gimpel (Fame
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Police will take no further action against Labour’s Angela Rayner after accusations surrounding her living arrangements in 2010. Officers from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) launched an investigation into the party’s deputy leader earlier this year, after reports suggested she may have lived primarily at her then-husband’s address in Stockport, despite registering to vote under her
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