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10 Greatest American Book Masterpieces of the 21st Century
Collider has published a ranked list of the ten greatest American books of the 21st century, spanning both fiction and non-fiction. The selection highlights how varied and strong American literary output has been since 2001, mixing acclaimed novels with genre works and historical narratives that the piece argues deserve recognition as modern classics. Entries include…
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6 HBO Shows That Are Far Better Than Their Reputation Suggests
Collider has published a list highlighting HBO series it argues are unfairly overlooked or misjudged, despite deserving recognition among the network’s best output. The piece contends that HBO’s reputation for prestige drama can work against shows that break from convention, with dense storytelling or bleak early episodes leading some series to be dismissed as confusing…
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7 Years Later, One ‘Vinland Saga’ Line Remains Anime’s Greatest Lesson About Violence
Polygon revisits a key moment in the anime and manga series *Vinland Saga*, arguing that a single line spoken by the character Thors to his son Thorfinn remains one of the medium’s most powerful statements on violence, seven years after the anime debuted. Though the series initially presents itself as a conventional Viking revenge epic,…
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Netflix’s Military Sci-Fi Sleeper Hit Is Officially Back in the Spotlight 10 Years Later
Netflix’s 2016 sci-fi thriller “Spectral” has resurfaced as a popular streaming pick nearly a decade after its release, highlighting an era when the platform relied heavily on acquiring films other studios had passed on rather than producing its own originals. The film centres on a DARPA engineer who joins an elite Special Operations unit to…
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Washington DC IndyCar Grand Prix scheduled for 23 August
The 2026 IndyCar Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C. took place as scheduled, with practice and qualifying on Saturday 22 August followed by the main race on Sunday 23 August. The event, round 15 of the IndyCar season, was run on a street circuit around the National Mall and formed part of the series’…
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“The paganism was never a problem. All of us shared an interest in that side of things”: The story of Sabbat’s cult pagan-thrash classic Dreamweaver: Reflections Of Our Yesterdays
This feature from Louder revisits the making of Dreamweaver: Reflections Of Our Yesterdays, the acclaimed 1989 album by Nottingham pagan-thrash band Sabbat, exploring how a British group with strong folk, progressive and pagan influences briefly rivalled thrash contemporaries from the US and Germany during a period when British metal was otherwise struggling to make an…
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4 Wonderful Albums Proving That Singer-Songwriters Were Still Thriving in 1976
American Songwriter highlights four albums from 1976 that showcase the enduring strength of the singer-songwriter genre, arguing that although the movement is often said to have peaked in the early 1970s, it remained vibrant well into the decade. The piece profiles releases by four major artists, each praised for demonstrating exceptional songwriting craft and personal…
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The 2007 role that almost destroyed Patrick Stewart: “It would end with me being fucked”
Patrick Stewart has revealed that a 2007 West End production of Macbeth pushed him to his physical and emotional limits, arriving at a moment when both his major franchises had stalled. Star Trek’s film future was uncertain after Nemesis flopped in 2002, and his X-Men character Professor X had just been killed off in 2006’s…
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DHS starts deportation flights after end to remaining protections for TPS holders
Lower court judges have now fully lifted certain limitations on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that cleared the end of temporary protected status (TPS), removing any final roadblock to deportations. A federal judge earlier this week lifted the final stay that barred immigration officials from carrying…
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‘Embryonic’: lost novel by French film-maker Éric Rohmer is republished
An English translation of Élisabeth, a 1946 novel written by French New Wave director Éric Rohmer under a pseudonym years before he turned to film-making, has been republished and is receiving enthusiastic reviews. Critics and scholars are hailing it as both a lost modernist work in its own right and a revealing precursor to the…