Best books of 2023: Top 30 must-read titles from the past year

Benny Safdie got his start in Hollywood as a director alongside his brother Josh, but now they’ve gone their separate ways.

. She may be known for her ultra-popular clothing label, but she actually got her start in a band—and music is finding its way back into her life over a decade later.“Before my clothing brand, I was in a band called Kill Your Darlings,” Bing tells Glamour. “I haven’t made music for all these years because I’ve been busy building the company.

Shawn Mendes is looking back at the past year of his life in a new post after the New Year.

The list of feature documentaries still in contention for the Oscars has been cut to 15 finalists, a brutal culling from a contingent of 167 qualifiers. The annual shortlist announcement leaves a handful of filmmakers celebrating, many more disappointed, and documentary watchers with much to debate. 

Almost one year ago, Marvel Studios, DC Studios, and all of the millions of superhero film fans were optimistic. Sure, 2022 wasn’t the best year on record for the film/TV superhero genre, but there was plenty to give hope, especially after the pandemic really threw a wrench in things.

It’s hard to believe American Idol first premiered over two decades ago!

Selome Hailu SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium,” Episode 3 of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” For fans of Rick Riordan‘s “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” books, Medusa represents one of Percy’s first big victories: After being tricked into spending time with “Aunty Em,” he beheads the snake-haired woman, and her cursed, dead eyeballs are later used to turn another enemy into stone. But for those with a deeper knowledge of Greek mythology, and for many women, Medusa is a symbol of something darker. In the original myth, Medusa is a human woman who takes a vow of celibacy out of devotion to Athena, the goddess of wisdom.

With the New Year just around the corner, many people will likely be thinking about some resolutions they want to adopt for 2024.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Who says you can’t laugh and win Oscars, too? In a stunning year for cinema, the candidates for the coveted best picture category are overflowing with prime comedic endeavors that surpass their dramatic counterparts. From a toy doll to an author with a triumphant “Black book” to a reverse Frankenstein tale that shows a whole lot of sex, the Academy has an opportunity to invite the softer side of cinema to its ceremony.

The latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show there are now 12.6 million people across Great Britain receiving State Pension payments, including 1.1 million living abroad and 992,052 in Scotland. Of that overall total, some 9.7 million people are receiving Basic State Pension payments of up to £156.20 each week, while 2.9 million are on - or due to claim - the New State Pension, which is worth up to £203.85 each week.

of 2023, encompassing the fiction and nonfiction reads that have been determined to rise above all others this year. But what does that mean, exactly?In actuality, what makes a book one of the year's best is entirely subjective, and that's what makes reading so fun.

Netflix will be launching the new series One Day in early 2024 and author David Nicholls is opening up about the new adaptation of his book.

It’s almost Christmas time, and that means Tom Cruise has sent out his amazing cake that celebrities rave about all year! By the way: the cake is available to purchase now on Goldbelly (and it’s worth the wait!)

EXCLUSIVE: Reacher Season 2 has been crowned No. 1 at Amazon.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with the ambitious Ava DuVernay-directed drama Origin, with the script also written by DuVernay inspired by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s groundbreaking book Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents.

Standing in the classroom where she taught a Strictly Come Dancing finalist as a year six pupil, Joanne Morris reflects on the enormity of his achievements. St Paul's CE Primary School stands to the west of the Dickie Bird estate, on the edge of Bury.

Jennifer Garner, who decided never to return after her first run.The 51-year-old actress and mother to Ben Affleck’s kids attended the Met Gala for the first time in 2007 alongside designer Valentino Garavani. Although she maintains a great relationship with the gala organizer and Vogue’s EIC Anna Wintour, she revealed why she hasn’t returned to the publication.The 2024 Met Gala theme revealed: what to expectSalma Hayek reminisces about the moment her look became a representation of 90s fashionMet Gala ink: Celebrities that rocked tattoos on the carpetWhile filming a makeup tutorial for Vogue, Garner said: “I found it a little scary, so I haven’t been back,” she added that despite it, she felt uncomfortable; her Valentino dress was “magical” and elegant.

Bosnian-Dutch director Ena Sendijarević’s satire Sweet Dreams unfolds on a plantation in the Dutch East Indies that is falling into decay in step with the crumbling of the Netherlands’ colonial power.

Lady Gaga won her first Oscar playing up-and-coming singer/songwriter Ally Maine alongside Bradley Cooper in 2018′s A Star is Born. Interestingly, she beat out several other famous pop stars to book the role.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. There’s a new class of scientific anthropology brewing in Los Angeles, one that isn’t merely centered around the human species but around another foreign primate that is often seen but rarely understood: the hot girl. To be a hot girl is about more than having an enviably symmetrical face and seemingly pore-less skin.