TikTok has dismissed reports suggesting Chinese officials are considering selling the platform's U.S. operations to billionaire Elon Musk as "pure fiction." Newsweek has contacted Musk through ...

As rumors circulated Monday that China was looking to have the owner of X purchase TikTok, a representative for the latter said it was "pure fiction." Bloomberg reported on Monday that Chinese ...

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These art and literature quiz questions are guaranteed to test your cultural knowledge. From famous paintings and plays, to novels, poems and sculptures, how much do you know? We’ve all loved quizzing ...

“Most child actors aren’t taught how to act,” Ron Howard once told an interviewer. “They’re sort of taught how to perform. They’re like trained animals.” Mr. Howard, who starred as ...

Never fear, book lovers. We may be in the clutches of the darkest, coldest part of winter right now, but the good news is that a year’s worth of great books is on the way. What follows is just a ...

April 1, 2024 • David Bezmozgis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Likes," by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Bezmozgis is a filmmaker and writer ...

Television hasn’t always been kind to science fiction, with smaller budgets to throw at special effects and epic, universe-spanning narratives getting cancelled before their time. But despite ...

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros is billed as one of the biggest publishing releases since Harry Potter. The festival will run from 31 January to 2 February at venues across Wolverhampton. The Sandman ...

This copy is for your personal, noncommercial use only. by Malcolm Gladwell Hachette Audio Through a series of stories, Gladwell explicates the causes of various kinds of epidemics. Read by the ...

A month ago, while doing the New York Times’ Spelling Bee, I enjoyed a moment of satisfaction keying in “denouement,” good for 10 points. I screengrabbed it with the intention of sending the image to ...