• New Finn Harps book 'We are the Harps' book launches next week

    The book profiles every player who has played a competitive game for Finn Harps Football Club over the Donegal’s club’s first 55 seasons in senior football. All 628 players who featured since the club’s first game in senior football in August 1969 against Shamrock Rovers until the final game of the 2003 season against Bray Wanderers last October are included. Whether they have played just one minute for the first-team, or 485 times as is the case with record appearance holder Jonathan Minnock,...

  • New York Among Top 25 Best States, Brand-New Ranking Says: Here's Why

    New York continues to rank among the top 25 best states in the country. The Empire State came in at No. 23 – down slightly from No. 20 last year – on the 2024 Best States list by U.S. News & World Report, released Tuesday, May 7. Rankings were determined using 71 metrics across eight categories, including fiscal stability, infrastructure, education, health care, and the economy. Data was pulled from national surveys taken by nearly 70,000 people. New York made the top 10 for natural...

  • BREAKING: New York Jets Sign New Quarterback & Release Another With The Best Name In Football

    The New York Jets have shaken up their quarterback depth chart, including the release of the player with the best name in the NFL. On X/Twitter, the New York Jets announced that they have signed quarterbacks Andrew Peasley and Colby Suits and defensive back/special teams returner Brandon Codrington. They have also waived quarterback PeeWee Jarrett …

  • Joya Chatterji’s ‘Shadows at Noon’ wins best history book at the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Awards

    Published by Yale University Press in the US and Penguin in India, it tells the subcontinent’s story from the British Raj to independence and partition.

  • Background For A New Book

    Some ideas about rights in preparation for reading How Rights Went Wrong by Jamal Greene

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    Best suburbs in New Orleans

    Stacker used data from Niche to examine the best suburbs in New Orleans.

  • Five of the best books about eating

    From a pioneering 1940s ‘gastrography’ to a recent novel about a real-life 18th-century French peasant cursed with an appetite to eat just about everythingFood in books has a way of lodging in the memory. For some it might be the kidneys on Leopold Bloom’s mind in Joyce’s Ulysses. For others, it’s the hard-won German sausage that Ratty finds at the end of Wind in the Willows. The book may be rich or grotesque, stark or sickly sweet, but we, the reader, are always invited to ask ourselves why,...

  • New Books Hitting Shelves This Week

    Coming HomeOn February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women’s basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittney’s world was violently upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail about publicly—until now.In Coming Home,...

  • 10 Best 'Survivor' Romances, Ranked

    From Coach and Jerri to Boston Rob and Amber, these are the best Survivor romances.

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    Here Are the 14 New Books You Should Read in May

    From Brittney Griner's memoir to Kevin Kwan's glitzy new novel.

  • The best apps and services for new graduates

    New graduates have a lot to manage: applying for jobs or further education, staying on top of their finances, keeping healthy and maybe even finding a more permanent place to live. Instead of a gift basket full of food they don’t eat, consider giving them a subscription to a service they’ll use regularly instead. Be it a new service that can make their lives easier, or footing the bill for something they already pay for, your new grad will thank you for the thoughtful yet practical gift. Here...

  • Five of the best books about queer relationships

    From James Baldwin to Sarah Waters, writers have been telling rich, nuanced LGBTQ+ tales for decades – here are some good titles to tryCinema listings seem to be stacked with films about queer relationships at the moment. From the eerie yet tender romance in All of Us Strangers to the electric sapphic fling in the forthcoming Love Lies Bleeding, these new offerings feel refreshingly nuanced, placing LGBTQ+ characters centre stage without pandering to reductive narratives or heteronormative...