What’s the best book you’ve ever received as a gift? That’s an impossible question. The best in 89 years? How do I know? I remember being given A.P. Wavell’s “Other Men’s Flowers” as a birthday present when I was young. It’s a collection of poetry, which opened my eyes to the power of verse. But … Read more
If you’ve decided you want to write your own personalized vows for your wedding, there are a few different ways you can share them with your partner. There is no right or wrong way to share your vows, and this isn’t going to look the same at every wedding. Talk through the options with your partner to … Read more
It’s an egg-cellent time to be a pop fan. And while Taylor Swift may be music’s boss bunny when it comes to burrowing those Easter eggs for us to dig out and dissect — a tunneling trend that will no doubt continue when she drops “The Tortured Poets Department” on April 19 — she isn’t … Read more
The cosmos hasn’t always been kind to Rebecca Szymczak. In 2014, she was “pushed out of her big dream job” as creative director and vice president of design at Playboy, where she was making six figures, because she wasn’t eager to relocate to Los Angeles. Around the same time, she lost a close friend and … Read more
With a star-studded front row seating the likes of Marc Jacobs and Sofia Coppola, Anna Sui reminded audiences in the Strand’s Rare Book Room that reading is sexy. The fall 2024 collection, inspired by the Agatha Christie character Miss Marple, paid homage to ’90s English sleuth chic, with checkered sweaters, scarves and knee-high socks; newsboy … Read more
Tyler Henry, known to many as the “Hollywood Medium” for his celebrity readings, has a famous name he’d like to work with. “Meghan Markle would be really interesting just for the royal connection, all of what they’ve gone through, the cultural impact,” Henry told Fox News Digital. “I found that one of the greatest aspects of … Read more
Paul Giamatti would just like to put it out there that maybe he doesn’t always have to play such a motormouth. It might be nice, just to shake things up a bit, if he could portray someone more likely to express themselves nonverbally — a taciturn horse breeder with an anguished past, say, or a … Read more
DEAR READERS: Twenty-five years ago tomorrow, I told you about a new, nationwide effort to honor and remember our nation’s troops, veterans and families by seeking out and preserving their war correspondence from every conflict in U.S. history. The response was overwhelming. The founder of this initiative, Andy Carroll, just told me that, as of … Read more
They were the kids most disrupted by the pandemic, the ones who were still learning to write their names and tie their shoes when schools shut down in the spring of 2020. Now, they’re the big kids at elementary schools across the United States. Many still need profound help overcoming the effects of the pandemic. To catch up, … Read more
Does your kid read a lot? A new study suggests they’re likely happier, more physically active, have a more active imagination and even problem-solve better than kids who rarely or never read. The poll of 1,500 American parents and 500 K–6 teachers revealed 91% of children aged 5 – 12 who are avid readers are also … Read more
People are reading what they watch. For generations, subtitles and closed captions were almost exclusively used by the hard of hearing or when heading to an art-house cinema to view foreign-language flicks. Almost overnight, that changed. Thanks to the expansion of streaming platforms, how people watch television has evolved as much as where they watch … Read more
The classic, one-size-fits-all blood pressure cuff being used by most doctor’s offices could be hazardous to your health, experts are warning. A new study, published Monday in respected journal JAMA Internal Medicine, found that standard, or “regular,” blood pressure cuffs are delivering “strikingly inaccurate” readings for patients who required a different size — particularly for … Read more
This is actually happening: AI is starting to read minds. Researchers at the University of Texas Austin have successfully created an artificial intelligence system that “can translate a person’s brain activity” into plain, readable language. The high-tech device, known as a semantic decoder, can do so by utilizing similar technology implemented by ChatGPT and Google’s … Read more
Nearly eight in 10 (78%) parents read their children the same books that were read to them as kids, new research suggests. A recent survey of 2,000 parents with school-age kids (ages 5–18) found that most claim to “always” or “often” read to their child before bedtime (63%), averaging four nights a week. When they … Read more
Judi Dench is opening up about her worsening eye condition. Dench, 88, was diagnosed with advanced macular degeneration (AMD) in 2012 and shared that she has been struggling with the loss of her vision. While appearing on “The Graham Norton Show,” the Oscar winner admitted that she has found it to be harder and harder … Read more
It looks like Prince William and Kate Middleton were spotted reading Prince Harry’s much-hyped memoir while eating burgers in bed — but don’t let your eyes deceive you. The world has been eager to know if the Prince and Princess of Wales got their hands on Harry’s explosive memoir “Spare,” and now they can picture … Read more
Sebastian Cwilich is a veteran of the art world — but now he’s making a diversion into the literary world. The former Christie’s auction house executive and Artsy co-founder is helping book lovers find the perfect next read with his new app Tertulia. “We saw a need,” Cwilich told the Post. “In a world full of … Read more
She’s on to the next chapter. After rushing into nuptials with her now ex-wife, a woman realized the person she married was a fraud who pretended to have cancer — all thanks to a fictitious book. At the time, Yaya Kampen didn’t know anything about the 2012 bestselling young adult novel “The Fault in Our … Read more
Paging a statistician! Actor Kirk Cameron claims a record crowd showed up Thursday to hear him read his new Christian-themed children’s book at the Indianapolis Public Library. “This is a message to every library in the United States,” Cameron’s publisher, Brave Books, tweeted at the time. “In 137 years of the Indianapolis Public Library’s history, NEVER ONCE … Read more
When Brittni Lourenco, 31, read the four harrowing words, “it ends with us,” at the end of Colleen Hoover’s blockbuster novel of the same name last year, she cried like a baby. Then, the clinical mental health counselor, from Connecticut, took a teary selfie and posted it to her Instagram story. “It just pulled on every … Read more