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Richard Powers’ The Overstory, Aretha Franklin among 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners

Richard Powers’ epic nature novel The Overstory has won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The sweeping and evocative novel, which unfolds in interlocking fables tracing the relationship between humanity and the natural world, has been one of 2018’s most lauded. It was also shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize and the (still pending) PEN/Faulkner Award,…

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Game of Thrones season 8 premiere shatters ratings record

Game of Thrones set a massive ratings record for its final season premiere. The HBO hit delivered 17.4 million viewers on Sunday evening across multiple airings and including some streaming. That makes the GoT season 8 premiere the biggest telecast in HBO’s history and the most-watched scripted entertainment program of the year (the prior record…

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This retro Star Wars toy is selling for $365,000 — plus tax

“You are expensive. Very expensive.” That’s what an underworld figure growls to the bounty hunter in the new Star Wars series The Mandalorian, but it also applies perfectly to a similar masked figure who shocked this year’s galactic fan gathering in Chicago. That would be a 1979 Boba Fett toy — one of three extremely…

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Labrinth, Sia, and Diplo get weird on LSD: EW review

Turn on, tune in, and drop out with the summery pop psychedelia of LSD, the acronymous supergroup comprising British multi-talent Labrinth, chart-topping singer-songwriter Sia, and Grammy-winning cross-genre DJ/producer Diplo. Like Diplo’s first album with his band Major Lazer (Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do), the 10-track LSD isn’t afraid to get weird. “Welcome to the…

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How the new Hellboy movie brought Baba Yaga to life

The new Hellboy film, not surprisingly, is packed to the brim with monsters. But amidst the blood queens and pig demons, the most unsettling scene in the movie belongs to a little old Russian witch who lives in a chicken-legged hut — and moves like no creature you’ve ever seen. Baba Yaga has captivated Hellboy…

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