Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images The story goes that Roman Abramovich decided to buy a football club after watching Manchester United beat Real Madrid 4-3 in a sizzling Champions League game at Old Trafford. Like many stories about Abramovich, nobody really knows whether it’s true or not. For most of the 19 years …
Abramovich’s Faustian pact with Chelsea is a parable of English football Read More »
On April 13, 1922, two homemade bombs exploded in a tenement on Eldridge Street, in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, destroying the building’s top half and rousing the sleeping neighborhood into panic. Less than two years after the devestating Wall Street bombing, the city was on alert for any sign of anarchist insurrection. Rather predictably, the …
The Joy of Researching Historical Fiction ‹ CrimeReads Read More »
Content Warning: Major SPOILERS for DC’s The Batman Are Discussed In This Article. Matt Reeves’ batman it has been five years in the making, and it’s finally hit theaters to great success. It brought Gotham City’s brooding superhero more down to earth than even Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed The Dark Knight Trilogybringing out the “World’s Greatest …
The Batman: 7 Best Comics That Influenced The Movie Read More »
Everyday life can be both mundane and soul-sucking. Watching a great fantasy movie can help one escape this. Like Dr. Seuss says, “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.” It opens up the heart and mind to magic and infinite possibilities. Why shouldn’t we believe in …
On the shelf Eleutheria By Allegra HydeVintage: 336 pages, $17 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. “I was obsessed with the notion of a poem as a kind of social grenade,” declares a major figure in Allegra Hyde’s “Eleutheria.” She …
Review: Allegra Hyde’s cli-fi debut novel ‘Eleutheria’ Read More »
The era: 1970s New York City. The tone: dark and noir-ish. The setting: A small-time comic book press. It’s a unique environment for a gritty crime story, but author Alex Segura uses his background as a writer of both mysteries and comics to blend these worlds together in his latest novel, “Secret Identity.” The book …
Happy Wednesday, neighbors! Here’s everything you need to know to get this day started right. Here are the most important things happening today in Glen Burnie. First, today’s weather: Rain; mixed with snow early. High: 42, low: 36. Here are the top 5 stories today in Glen Burnie: AACPL will assist seniors and low and …
🌱 AACPL Tax Preparation Assistance + Rally To Philly 2022 Read More »
During a rare appearance in Santa Fe, NM, in 2015, Cormac McCarthy offered a tantalizing glimpse of his work in progress: “The Passenger,” a novel that explored esoteric ideas about math, physics and the nature of consciousness. Readers have been eager for the novel ever since. Widely revered as one of the greatest living American …
ReportLinker Major players in the children and young adult books market are Hachette Book Group, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, Phoenix Publishing House, Bonnier, China Publishing Group, De Agostini Editore, HarperCollins Publishers, Informa, Kadokawa Publishing, Kodansha, Shogakukan, Penguin Random House (Random House), Amazon. New York, March 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Reportlinker.com announces the release of the …
Children and Young Adult Books Global Market Report 2022 Read More »
