(AP) — There is nothing particularly grand about Robert Grainier’s existence in the world. The main character of “Train Dreams” is not a great thinker, artist or athlete. He doesn’t know who his parents are, or even exactly how old he is. He’s not particularly chatty, or ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Excuse me, you look like you like... country award shows. And you’re in luck: The 2025 Country Music Association Awards are here. So, what should you expect? Probably a lot of women taking home prizes they deserve! Ella Langley, Megan Moroney and Lainey Wilson lead this year’s nominations with six nods each. There’s a lot of stiff competition: Wilson, who is hosting the ceremony, is also competing for the night’s highest honor — CMA entertainer of the year — against Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Chris Stapleton and Morgan Wallen, last year’s winner in the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Han Kang’s “We Do Not Part,” Megha Majumdar’s “A Guardian and a Thief” and Yiyun Li’s “ Things in Nature Merely Grow” are among the finalists for Andrew Carnegie Medals, fiction and nonfiction awards presented by the American Library Association. “A Guardian and a Thief,” already an Oprah Winfrey book club pick and a nominee for the National Book Award and Kirkus Prize, is among three Carnegie fiction finalists and the only one written originally in English. Kang’s novel was translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige ...
PARIS (AP) — A French-Algerian novelist who was granted a humanitarian pardon last week in Algeria after a yearlong imprisonment returned to France on Tuesday and was received by President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee presidential palace, Macron’s office said. Boualem Sansal, 76, was released last week after Algeria ‘s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune granted him a humanitarian pardon in response to a German request. Sansal, who has cancer, first went to Berlin, where he received medical treatment. His attorney says his health has been deteriorating. Macron expressed his ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Art collectors have a chance Tuesday to buy one of the world’s most lucrative latrines: a solid gold, fully functional toilet. The piece, by Maurizio Cattelan — the provocative Italian artist known for taping a banana to a wall — goes up for auction Tuesday evening at Sotheby’s in New York. The starting bid will be the market value of the 101-kilogram (223-pound), 18-karat-gold work, currently about $10 million. Cattelan has said the piece, titled “America, “ satirizes superwealth. “Whatever you eat, a $200 lunch or a $2 hot dog, the results are the ...
(AP) — Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to privately message other players and implementing age-based chats so kids, teens and adults will only be able to message people around their own age. The moves come as the popular gaming platform continues to ...
