Mainstream comedy is frankly in a bit of a lull right now. Sitcoms and theatrical comedy movie are disappearing, few comic novels are getting published, and comedy podcasts are just comedians ...

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Like the common cold, the reading slump and its symptoms will come to us all eventually. The pages don't turn as fast as they used to. The characters don't feel as relatable. The plots don't hit the ...

I had no idea what I was doing in 2018, when I launched my Amazon business, selling card games that help people develop emotional intelligence skills. At the time, I had two part-time jobs, was ...

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. This is part of an ...

The organization We Need Diverse Books has come a long way from its 2014 origins, when reaction to BookCon’s all-white, mostly male author lineup galvanized discussions online. What started as a ...

(CNN) – Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a novel set in a totalitarian society, has shot to the top of Amazon’s bestselling books list following Donald Trump’s reelection. It saw a whopping ...

In her lively “Book and Dagger,” the historian Elyse Graham rescues a cast of scholar-spies from obscurity. By Ben Macintyre Ben Macintyre’s latest book is “The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the ...

Flatiron Books will launch a new imprint, Pine & Cedar Books, in summer 2025. Flatiron executive editor Christine Kopprasch has been named VP and publisher of the imprint, which will publish ...

Escape the single-threaded event loop in browsers and on the server. Here's how to use worker threads and web workers for modern multithreading in JavaScript. The JavaScript language is one of the ...

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