It’s 1979, and Bonnet Shores is slowly knitting itself back together after last summer’s rash of home invasions. The perpetrators were caught, and while alarm systems now protect windows such as 15-year-old Maddie Grove’s, she’s happy to once again have the freedom to stay out late with her friends, and have her crush visit her…
The latest novel by de Waal (My Name Is Leon, 2016) was published in the U.K. last year as The Best of Everything. It reaches these shores with a new, more memorable title that underscores the story’s folksy tenderness. “My Sweet Pea” is what Paulette’s grandmother called her as a girl on St. Kitts, raising…
“The world does not need another parenting book,” writes Grimm in her own parenting book, where she likewise notes that parenting can be so exhausting and baffling that it can use all the advice manuals it can get. “Every day of parenting is Saigon in 1975,” she writes. “It is often defeating, sometimes humiliating, and…
English actor, director, and motion-capture pioneer Serkis is a thrill-seeker in life—he writes here of his successful “solo assault” on the Matterhorn—and also in his art. His attitude is distilled in his initial response to being asked to play Ulysses Klaue in Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015): “Charismatic South African villain who gets his…
Morrell received a comprehensive education in food and drink from parents who ran a wine business. Moreover, her mother schooled her in social graces and an appreciation for beauty and knowledge, telling her, “Being erudite will only help you in life.” Morrell is erudite indeed, dropping $10 words (exuded, charlatan, unctuous) exactly where they fit.…
Over its tenure from 2009 to 2025, WTF, Marc Maron’s interview podcast, became a meaningful model for the medium—a line late in the book succinctly states that in the podcast universe, “in terms of one-on-one interviews there was a lot of Maron in the primordial ooze.” He steadily honed his craft, connecting with guests by…
Seeking a holiday gift for their landlady, Mrs. Hudson, Sherlock Holmes takes Dr. John Watson to Whiteley’s, where screams and blood alert them to a startling tableau: A man is dangling from the upper branches of the half-decorated Christmas tree adorning the emporium’s main floor. Inspector Darke, the Metropolitan Police officer called to the scene…
Prince Zayd of Dakaria doesn’t have time to grieve his dying father or savor a hard-won battle before he’s thrust into assuming a throne he isn’t ready for. Between fending off silver-hungry pirates, trying to avoid an unwanted engagement, and concealing a wound from a deadly poisoned arrow that’s curable only by a rare antidote,…
Hi r/AndroidDev, ICYMI, Android Dev Summit returned last week after a four-year hiatus (Oct. 28–29), featuring over 50 sessions covering agentic development workflows (Android CLI, Agent Client Protocol support in Android Studio [i.e. Bring Your Own Agent], and declarative builds with Lightbuild), on-device and hybrid AI (Gemini Nano 4, Gemma 4, and Android MCP), our…
TL;DR Google’s latest System Services release notes confirm the new Android Family Hub, a dedicated space for family management tools in Android Settings. The feature is arriving with Google Play services v26.43. We recently spotted the Family Hub in testing on Pixel 11 phones, sitting at the top of the Settings app much like Apple’s…