Tayari Jone's new novel, "Kin," explores the power of female friendship, the complex relationship between mothers and daughters and the complexities of being a woman in the American South. When it ...

Delroy Lindo stars as Delta Slim, a gifted and haunted blues musician, in ‘Sinners.’ It's a performance that has earned Lindo his first Academy Award nomination. He wants to win, but he says he won't ...

Tayari Jones begins her superb new novel "Kin" with the harrowing start to life for two girls born in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, in the 1940s. Vernice is six months old when her parents die in a burst of ...

At the end of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, an aging Newland Archer, who as a young man broke his own heart by choosing propriety over love, tells himself that the mark of the modern era is ...

The AI search startup is positioning the tool as a more secure version of OpenClaw that runs on a Mac. The AI search startup is positioning the tool as a more secure version of OpenClaw that runs on a ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...

Between 2020 and 2023, Tayari Jones lost three longtime friends. While COVID-19 was not a direct cause, Jones said, she saw their deaths as “collateral damage” of the pandemic. The author recalls how ...

When a character refers to the dual narrators of “Kin” as “crib sisters,” he’s immediately informed that the correct term is “cradle,” not “crib.” There’s a reason for that distinction, I think.

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Tayari Jones’s great subject is family loyalty. Her deeply felt novels are driven by what makes families and what breaks them. “Kin,” set in the segregated South in the 1950s and ’60s, focuses on the ...