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Anyone complaining about the state of hip-hop needs only to look beyond the top of the charts, as the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast makes clear. In the episode, Andre Gee breaks down some of his under-the-radar 2023 hip-hop picks, from Zelooperz‘ experimental Microphone Fiend to B. Cool Aid’s ultra-vibey Leather BLVD to Nappy Nina‘s introspective Mourning Due. To hear the full episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play below.…

Posted in: Comics, Comics Publishers, Current News, Image | Tagged: A Haunted Girl, graphic novelA Haunted Girl Graphic Novel by Ethan & Naomi Sacks and Marco Lorenzana from Image Comics was created with mental health sensitivity readers.Co-writers and father-daughter team Ethan Sacks and Naomi Sacks, with artist Marco Lorenzana, have created a YA graphic novel intended to explore real-world mental health struggles through a fantastical lens in the upcoming A Haunted Girl, published by Image Comics in May 2024. The…

NEW YORK (AP) — Lorrie Moore, Naomi Klein and the Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji are among the finalists for National Book Critics Circle awards. Honorary prizes are going to Judy Blume and to a longtime ally of Blume's in the fight against book bans, the American Library Association. HT Image On Thursday, the critics circle announced nominees in seven competitive categories, ranging from fiction to debut book to best translation. Winners will be announced March 12. Stay tuned for all the latest updates on Ram…

Truman Capote wanted to title the book he was working on until his death, Answered Prayers — as in: “More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones” — and the trailer for the miniseries Feud: Capote Vs. the Swans shows just how true that is. The series, which premieres on FX and Hulu at 10 p.m. on Jan. 31, will trace how Capote, played by Tom Hollander, became a social pariah by writing about his New York socialite friends in the few chapters of Answered Prayers that actually made it into the public.…

Actor Naomi Watts will be seen showcasing her acting skills in Audrey Diwan`s erotic drama `Emmanuelle`. As per Variety, the film is inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan`s novel and is based on a script co-developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski ("Other People`s Children"). The book centres on a woman and the series of erotic fantasies that she entertains. It was previously made into a 1974 film of the same name, directed by Just Jaeckin and starring Sylvia Kristel, which became a cult hit. Watts revealed the news when she…

Priyanka Chopra recently attended the F1 Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. On Tuesday, the actor shared a bunch of pictures from the event on her Instagram account. (Also read: Priyanka Chopra bonds with Orlando Bloom, Chris Hemsworth, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley at F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix) Priyanka Chopra completed her look with dark sunglasses. Priyanka's latest Instagram postPriyanka looked stunning in a pink and black-coloured dress featuring a thigh-high slit. She kept the look more grounded…

“This is the essential problem. We can imagine the future. And once we’ve imagined it, we can’t stop.” These words appear towards the end of Naomi Alderman’s sixth novel, The Future, transcribed to a survivalist forum from a famous sermon by a doomsday cult leader who called himself Enoch. The Enochites came to a collective tragic end some years before the events of the novel, but Enoch’s ideas about the trajectory of human civilisation live on in corners of the internet, and resonate throughout the book as parable and…

Naomi Alderman, author of the bestselling novel The Power, is just getting over Covid and feeling a bit wiped out. “But don’t worry, I still seem able to talk for England,” she says cheerfully from her home in north London, when we meet to talk about her new novel The Future. “I figured I might as well let people know that I’m an ambitious writer,” she jokes of her punchy titles. Our conversation ranges from the Old Testament (“I like Genesis much more than I like Leviticus”) to QAnon (“a new religious belief”) and AI, as…

After a trio of small-scale novels Alderman hit the big time with her fourth, 2017’s The Power: a global bestseller, winner of the Women’s prize for fiction, chosen as book of the year by Barack Obama and Bill Gates. The novel’s premise is that one day teenage girls develop the ability to make electricity inside themselves, and can project this power outward to hurt or kill. It traces the various ways this changes things: a world in which men rather than women must live in constant fear for their physical safety. Written…

Image Comics’s Syzygy Publishing imprint is bringing a new horror series about mental health to readers. A Haunted Girl comes from the creative team of writers Ethan Sacks and his daughter, Naomi Sacks, and artist Marco Lorenzana. The series follows a teenager who starts experiencing otherworldly events following a hospitalization for depression. Here’s how Image describes A Haunted Girl: Cleo, a 16-year-old adopted Japanese-American whose anxiety and depression drives her to suicidal thoughts, is fresh out of the…