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HISTORICAL FACTS: Bell hooks - The Untold Story

JD Vance has written another book? Couldn’t he just concentrate on his day job?

As the US tries to limit the damage from the Iran war, its vice-president has admitted he doesn’t understand diplomacy, writes Arwa Mahdawi. Of course not: he’s been too busy churning out another memoir

The Guardian - UK

A Fox host says ‘many people’ think women shouldn’t be president. Thank goodness we’ve got a man in charge

Jesse Watters gave a litany of reasons why women shouldn’t lead before denying he agreed. But peddling these ideas normalizes them

The Guardian - US

Hard work, romance and bell hooks: how Olivia Dean became British pop’s newest megastar

After a Grammy and a global breakthrough, the 26-year-old singer could sweep the board at next week’s Brits. Her closest collaborators explain her massive appeal

The Guardian - UK

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9 Books That Will Change How You View Relationships Forever

We go to school to learn algebra and history, but nobody teaches us how to love. Consequently, we are thrown into the deep end of dating and marriage, armed only with advice from rom-coms and our parents’ often dysfunctional examples. We fumble through heartbreaks and confusing dynamics, wondering why it…

Budget and the Bees

Olivia Dean reacts to sudden viral fame after ‘Man I Need’ tops charts

Rising British singer-songwriter released her sophomore album, ‘The Art of Loving,’ last month

The Independent UK

Is there any hope for the internet?

In 2001, social theorist bell hooks warned about the dangers of a loveless zeitgeist. In “All About Love: New Visions,” she lamented “the lack of an ongoing public discussion … about the practice of love in our culture and in our lives.”

The Conversation

The 30 Best Self-Help Books to Read in 2025

Allow these titles to empower and inspire you.

Marie Claire

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7 books that are cheaper than therapy

THE LIST: Whether you’re in your self-improvement era or on your own healing journey, Esme Hewitt recommends these seven self-help books

The Independent UK

Five children’s books that feature positive male role models – from toddlers to teens

We are facing an apparent crisis of masculinity among young boys. As the success of the Netflix show Adolescence has highlighted, young men are lacking positive role models – and increasingly looking to misogynistic online influencers to fill the void.

The Conversation

Mickalene Thomas and Linder review – impossibly exuberant women electrify a body-slam of a show

Thomas employs rhinestones and tiger-print to reflect on the representation of black women, while Linder appears covered in coloured goo at two concurrent shows

The Guardian - UK

Love in Exile by Shon Faye review – lessons in romance

Is heartbreak all capitalism’s fault? Faye mixes the personal and political in this exposing but generous memoir

The Guardian - UK

Year in review: top 10 art and culture interviews of 2024, as selected by Wallpaper’s Hannah Silver

From Antony Gormley to St. Vincent and Mickalene Thomas – art & culture editor Hannah Silver looks back on the creatives we've most enjoyed catching up with during 2024

Wallpaper

A film time capsule of 1990s rap greats

Director dream hampton uncovers old tapes of her friendships with 1990s rappers in their casual moments

Salon

‘Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: Now and Then is about assertion of the marginalised and a new Bahujan feminist gaze’

In the latest reported incident of atrocities towards people from the Bahujan community, a group of Dalit and OBC students were forced to clean the septic tank at the Morarji Desai residential school in Kolar district. The principal and a few staff were arrested following the incident.

The Hindu

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We need "When Harry Met Sally" in fall

When the temperature drops, nothing warms our hearts like this '80s classic (and pepper on our paprikash)

The Conversation

'Religion would take my life': two women testify to enduring and surviving harm in evangelical Christian communities

I grew up in evangelical churches where “telling your story” or “sharing your testimony” was a method of converting others.

The Independent UK

Maxine Hong Kingston, bell hooks among those honored by Ishmael Reed's Before Columbus Foundation

Maxine Hong Kingston, Darryl Pinckney and the late bell hooks were among the authors honored this year by the Before Columbus Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by Ishmael Reed that celebrates multicultural literature

The Guardian - US

I wept for Ken: why men have the most to gain from watching Barbie

Men suffer under patriarchy, too – and Ryan Gosling’s man-child Ken is a brilliant demonstration of that

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10 of the best – and most unexpected – erotic books

From Mary Wesley’s throuples to James Baldwin’s heartbreak in Paris, writers have long been obsessed by ‘the most sought-after and least examined emotion’. Here Lucy Knight picks her top 10

Bangkok Post

Challenging the norm

After reading two books with red-coloured covers -- bell hooks' All About Love and Tara Costello's Red Moon Gang, Chanaradee Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, better known as juli baker and summer, became triggered by issues in the books, including relationships, politics, capitalism and menstruation. In order to convey the messages she…

Salon

DeSantis' hypocrisy is his secret weapon

That DeSantis relies on this foundational principle of white supremacy is actually evidence of systemic racism

The Guardian - US

‘Cowering to politics’: how AP African American studies became the most controversial course in the US

After Florida’s governor vowed to block the class, a revised version – with key writings removed – sparked swift backlash

The Conversation

Beyoncé is not the most commercially successful artist of our age but she might be one of the most culturally significant

There is always a flurry of media excitement at this time of year surrounding the Grammys, the American music business’s peer-recognised music awards delivered by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. But away from the gossip about who deserved to win, the outfits on display and the racial…

The Guardian - UK

Framing men as the ‘villains’ gets women no closer to better romantic relationships

Romantic victimhood allows us to believe we’re forever the wounded party – and that men are incapable of change, says Moya Lothian-McLean, a contributing editor at Novara Media

The Conversation

Scapegoating rap hits new low after July Fourth mass shooting

When local police named 22-year-old Robert E. Crimo III as “a person of interest” in the July 4 mass shootings in an affluent Chicago suburb, several news outlets described him in headlines as a “rapper.”

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