📰 Gift Feed

Every article here is free to read — no subscription needed.

Trending New Most Shared
entertainment × ✕ Clear
New York Times culturesportsentertainment
Book Review: ‘The Pirate Queen,’ by Ariel Lawhon (Gift Article)

In a new novel, the author Ariel Lawhon revives a 16th-century sea captain previously pushed to the margins.

Discussion
New York Times entertainmenttechnologyculture
Saved on 9/11, by the Man in the Red Bandanna (Gift Article)

Welles Crowther — who rescued at least 10 people at ground zero and became known as the man with the red handkerchief — is the subject of a new documentary.

Discussion
The Atlantic cultureentertainment
A Great Novel Becomes a Bad Show

Don’t watch “The Shards.” Go read the book instead.

Discussion
New York Times entertainmentculture
‘Buddy’ Review: Cuddle Monster (Gift Article)

Barney but Satan: That’s the macabre world Casper Kelly posits in his horror comedy about an adorable but monstrous children’s television unicorn.

Discussion
New York Times businesstechnologyentertainment
A.I. Music Giant Suno Tries to Play Nice With Record Labels (Gift Article)

Suno has drawn copyright lawsuits from the majors. Now it is releasing a version of its A.I. music generator trained in partnership with Warner Music.

Discussion
New York Times cultureentertainment
Sara Bareilles Confronted Grief, and Found Herself (Gift Article)

Her new album, “Good Grief,” mourns friends including her Broadway co-star Gavin Creel, and her musical adaptation of the Meg Wolitzer novel “The Interestings” is about finding a different kind of ful...

Discussion
New York Times cultureentertainment
Watch (and Hear) Emma Cline’s Buzzy New Novel Become an Audiobook (Gift Article)

We followed the audiobook production of Emma Cline’s Booker Prize nominee “Switzy” from start to finish to show you how it’s done.

Discussion
NRC cultureentertainment
D-Day vanuit het perspectief van de weerman: ‘Er is iets wonderlijks aan stil heroïsme’

D-Day in film: ‘Pressure’ vertelt het verhaal van D-Day vanuit het perspectief van meteoroloog James Stagg, wiens voorspelling cruciaal was voor de planning van de invasie. De film laat zien dat helde...

Discussion
New York Times cultureopinionentertainment
Birds Are Dying. Clues Point to El Niño.
Discussion
Medium cultureentertainment
Star Trek Star Marina Sirtis On Her Childhood, Her Early Career, The Enduring Popularity Of Star…

… Well, Yitzi, I hate to tell you this, but Deanna Troi and Marina Sirtis really only have one thing in common: We’re the same height…

Discussion
New York Times culturehealthentertainment
6 Exercises Physical Therapists Wish Everyone Did to Age Well (Gift Article)

Try these simple movements to stay strong and limber.

Discussion
The Atlantic entertainment
Cereal Has Strayed Too Far

How breakfast became dessert

Discussion
New York Times cultureentertainmentsports
Dudamel in Command, a ‘Macbeth’ Opera and Steve Reich Coming This Fall (Gift Article)

Also this season, the Berlin Philharmonic comes to Carnegie Hall, “Lincoln in the Bardo” arrives at the Metropolitan Opera and dueling “Toscas.”

Discussion
Medium cultureentertainment
Best Writing Books For Pantsers

From a discovery writer who has read a lot of writing books

Discussion
Medium cultureentertainment
The Second Elizabeth: A Life Appreciated

A tribute to Queen Elizabeth II at her passing

Discussion
Medium cultureentertainmenttechnology
The Backwards Knight by Matthew Siadak, A Review

Blasted Oafs, Condemned Criminals and Damn Elves

Discussion
Medium cultureentertainment
The Real Reason I Loved Project Runway

Watching the show’s queer fashion designers gave me an hour every week to be my true, authentic, queer self

Discussion
New York Times cultureentertainment
Nothing Compares to Her: A Dance Love Letter to Sinead O’Connor (Gift Article)

The choreographer Sonya Tayeh’s “The Surge” is a dance response to themes in O’Connor’s life: spirituality, identity and what Tayeh calls jrage, or joy and rage.

Discussion
New York Times opinionentertainment
35 Novels Coming This Fall (Gift Article)

New fiction from Marlon James, Barbara Kingsolver, John Green, John Grisham and much more.

Discussion
New York Times entertainmentsports
A.J. Brown ready to put turbulence behind him. It starts with another Super Bowl chase (Gift Article)

When winning a Super Bowl left him unfulfilled, Brown learned something about himself: The journey means more than the destination.

Discussion
New York Times entertainmentculture
Book Review: ‘Taipei Story,’ by R.F. Kuang (Gift Article)

“Taipei Story,” R.F. Kuang’s seventh book in eight years, is about an American student in Taiwan.

Discussion
Medium entertainmentbusiness
You Did Not Read the Article. You Entered a Plea.

The comment section is now in session, and confidence is not admissible as evidence.

Discussion
New York Times entertainmenttechnology
New York’s Subways Weren’t Built for This (Gift Article)

In an era of heavy rain, a transit system with 47,000 openings is bound to leak.

Discussion
New York Times worldpoliticsentertainment
The 25 Photos That Changed Fashion Forever (Gift Article)

Two photographers, a fashion designer, a stylist, a creative director, an editor and a supermodel debate the images that have had an indelible impact on how we dress.

Discussion
Medium cultureentertainment
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma — Anderson and Einbinder shine in surreal queer horror satire

A director making a slasher sequel becomes obsessed with casting the original film’s ‘final girl,’ leading both women into psychological…

Discussion
New York Times cultureentertainmentfood
Ramen Recipe • 5★ (Gift Recipe)

Make some instant ramen. Slide an egg into the hot broth, then some butter.

Discussion
New York Times cultureentertainment
A Front-Row Seat to Ancient Rome’s Slide Into Autocracy (Gift Article)

Robert Harris’s new novel, “Agrippa,” follows a statesman who witnesses the transformation of a republic into an empire.

Discussion