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Take two girls. Charlie, dark and scowling, is a scrappy preteen whose single mother has no idea how to deal with her extended absences from their shack-like home at the edge of a wood, while Astrid, fair-haired and timidly polite, inhabits a cosy middle-class world of family dinners and indulgent shopping trips (there is never a wrong time for a new dress). They are, in other words, total opposites, and at school Charlie affects hardly to know Astrid, keen to keep up appearances in front of the boys who bully them both.…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Whether you’re singling out which books to bring on an upcoming vacation, luxuriating in low-key Sunday afternoons, or hiding out in bookstores until the temperature mercifully drops somewhere below hellscape, this month offers a host of new book releases to scoop up. From debut fiction to fresh work from award-winning authors and non-fiction galore, there’s enough to…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Whether you’re singling out which books to bring on an upcoming vacation, luxuriating in low-key Sunday afternoons, or hiding out in bookstores until the temperature mercifully drops somewhere below hellscape, this month offers a host of new book releases to scoop up. From debut fiction to fresh work from award-winning authors and non-fiction galore, there’s enough to…

Tributes have poured in for the Spanish cartoonist Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, creator of the much-loved strip Mortadelo and Filemón, who died on Saturday aged 87.Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister, tweeted: “You made life much more fun for generations. We’ll miss you.”“Ibáñez is hugely important in Spanish popular culture,” said Jordi Canyissà, author of Ibáñez, Master Cartoonist. “His comics are as popular in Spain as Astérix in France or Tintin in Belgium. Generations have learnt to read from his stories and…

Camille Jourdy’s marvellous new comic book begins with a train journey: a young woman, Juliette, is leaving Paris, and heading for the small town where she grew up. Exhausted by the city and the seething anxiety from which she has suffered ever since she was a girl, she longs for the awkward embrace of her somewhat complicated family: her divorcee father, now lonely enough to be on the dating apps; her mother, an amateur artist with bohemian leanings who has recently taken yet another younger lover; her older sister,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In Spain, 68.4% of the population over the age of 14 reads books. Most of these people read for pleasure in their spare time, choosing the genres that interest them most according to their personal tastes and preferences. One of the preferred genres among Spaniards, which is becoming ever more…

It’s beach season, and you know what that means: Beach reads. But here at Polygon, we have a suggestion: What if, instead of finally reading That One Novel on your vacation, you did something way cooler? What if you read That One Graphic Novel? Polygon staffers Susana Polo and Tasha Robinson have put our heads together to distill the essential categories of the Summer Beach Read — and then convert them to equally stimulating, escapist, or aspirational comic books. So don’t bring a big ol’ book out onto the sand this…

On Thursday, June 22, Marvel Entertainment and Random House Worlds, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, announced an adult novel series carrying on the classic Marvel tradition of “What If…?” storytelling. Each Random House Worlds’ “What If…?” series will be set in a distinct universe in the Multiverse and reimagine the origins of an iconic Marvel hero, allowing readers to discover what can happen when the fabric of reality is altered. The series will launch in 2024 with three titles. Photo:…

Image via Marvel Comics / Random House It looks like Marvel is exploring the multiverse in a novel new way – Marvel Entertainment has announced a collaboration with Random House, a publishing subsidiary of Penguin Random House. Three new stories, each set in their own, distinct corner of the Marvel Multiverse, are set to be released in 2024 under Marvel’s What If…? banner. A press release accompanied the announcement via Random House Worlds, which operates under a division of Penguin Random House. Random House…

You’ve read the comics and watched the animated TV show—now prepare to enter the mixed-up, switched-up, upside-down world of Marvel’s “What If...?”through the pages of three new novels. Loki, Valkyrie, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, Moon Knight, and Venom will star in the books from an acclaimed trio of authors.The Woman Who Would Be PhotonAs Random House Worlds’ press release reminds us, “This officially licensed series reimagines the origins of iconic Marvel heroes and allows readers to discover what can happen when the…