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Robert Downey Jr. is returning to ‘Avengers’ films as a villain in 1 of Marvel's Comic-Con twists
MPR News· 2 days agoMarvel Studios returned to San Diego Comic-Con with dancing Deadpool variants and a choir for a panel that included news about the next two “Avengers” films and surprise guests ...
40 years after 'Purple Rain,' Prince’s band remembers how the movie came together
MPR News· 3 days agoWendy Melvoin, guitarist for Prince’s genre bending band The Revolution, remembers one of their most iconic songs started with an idea — and a challenge — from the ...
Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Sweet Blue Distance’ and ‘The Frozen River’
MPR News· 3 days agoCall the midwife: Jolie Hughes of Morgan Hill Bookstore in New London, N.H., recommends two recent...
Fantasy novelist Rebecca Yarros among big winners at second annual BookTok awards
Euronews via Yahoo Canada News· 4 days agoThe second annual TikTok Book Awards UK and Irelend saw the social media platform’s users vote for...
Old books can be loaded with poison. Some collectors love the thrill.
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 4 days agoCORRECTION: A photo caption in an earlier version of this article gave incorrect information about...
The Decameron: The 'eye-popping' medieval tales that pushed sexual boundaries
BBC News· 5 days agoWritten by Giovanni Boccaccio in the 1350s, this collection of stories deals with sexuality in a way...
2024 Olympics: Paris prepares for a spectacular, first-of-its-kind Opening Ceremony in the heart of ...
Yahoo Sports· 5 days agoThey’ve faced security questions, logistical challenges (how exactly do you get 10,000 athletes onto...
Headed to Paris? 20 things to do outside of the Olympic Games
AOL· 5 days agoThis summer, Paris is hosting the world for the Olympic Games, set against the backdrop of the iconic city's history ...
Cartoonist Roz Chast to be honored at the Brooklyn Book Festival, which runs from Sept. 22-30
North Shore News· 5 days agoLorrie Moore, Attica Locke and Edwidge Danticat will be among hundreds of writers attending this September's Brooklyn Book Festival, for years one of the literary world's ...
‘Someone Like Us’ is a fresh, idiosyncratic novel about immigrating to the U.S.
MPR News· 5 days agoThere’s a recurring fantasy running through Dinaw Mengestu’s new novel, “Someone Like Us”: It’s a fantasy about a word-of-mouth, nation-wide network of taxi cabs that would come to ...