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Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 has been hit with another delay. The cast of Venom 3 is expanding. Prince Zuko brings the heat in a new clip from Netflix’s The Last Airbender. Plus, what’s to come on Halo as the show adapts a major piece of gaming lore, and Stephen King is still wondering what Warner Bros. is doing with Salem’s Lot. Spoilers, away!Zuko and Korra's Voice Actors Reveal Their Dream Alternate Avatar RolesMickey 17Bong Joon Ho’s next movie has now been rescheduled to a January 31, 2025 release date. ]"…

Pallati i ëndrrave by Ismail Kadare (The Palace of Dreams, translated by Barbara Bray) – ALBANIAThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak – AUSTRALIAДом, в котором... by Mariam Petrosyan (The Gray House, translated by Yuri Machkasov) – ARMENIADer Trafikant by Robert Seethaler (The Tobacconist, translated by Charlotte Collins) – AUSTRIAThe Orphan Sky by Ella Leya – AZERBAIJANMoi qui n’ai pas connu les hommes by Jacqueline Harpman (I Who Have Never Known Men, translated by Ros Schwartz) – BELGIUMUhvati zeca by Lana Bastašić (Catch the…

Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of seven novels, including American Wife and Rodham, reimaginings of the lives of Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton. Her new novel, Romantic Comedy, revolves around a TV sketch show based on Saturday Night Live, and dissects celebrity culture in a love story set during the pandemic, much of which takes place via email exchange. Marian Keyes is the author of 15 bestselling novels, several of which centre on the daughters of the Walsh family; the most recent is Again, Rachel. Her books…

Nick Hornby on Emil and the Detectives by Erich KästnerNick Hornby. Photograph: Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXMI turned 11 in April 1968, which was around the time the wheels came off the family car. They were already pretty loose. My father was one of those 1960s men who, in the pre-digital crossed-line age of phone boxes and busy signals and telegrams in an emergency, managed to start a second family without the first one knowing anything about it. When the truth was revealed (not to everyone – it would be another…

Valproic acid – a drug commonly used to treat epilepsy and bipolar disorder – can cause birth defects and developmental disorders if taken during pregnancy, but the reason why has long been a mystery.  Now, in a study using mice and human tissue, scientists discovered that the medication locks some embryonic cells into a suspended state where they can't properly grow or divide.By forcing key stem cells cells into this state, called senescence, valproic acid may disrupt brain development in the womb and therefore cause…

“So, how does it feel to be a publishing phenomenon?” the Irish writer Marian Keyes asks TV producer-presenter and now fellow novelist Richard Osman, over Diet Cokes and chocolate croissants. “A record-breaker of record-breakers?”For once, publishing “phenomenon” (pronounced as four words by Keyes for emphasis) is no exaggeration: Osman’s first novel The Thursday Murder Club sold 45,000 copies in three days in 2020 and his follow-up, The Man Who Died Twice (released in paperback this month), was one of the fastest-selling…