Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is preparing for the inaugural launch of its New Glenn rocket on Sunday, marking a major milestone in its journey to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the commercial space industry. The towering, 30-story rocket has been in development for more than a decade and represents a multibillion-dollar investment aimed at … Read more
When it comes to princess songs, there’s no bigger name in the game than Alan Menken. That’s why Skydance Animation has tapped the legendary eight-time Academy Award-winning actor to write the music and score the new animated musical “Spellbound.” In the film, now streaming on Netflix, Rachel Ziegler plays Princess Eliane, a teenager seeking to … Read more
Tove Jansson’s 1972 novel The Summer Book was not a memoir, but a piece of memory—its lean account of largely unspoken grief and recovery imbued and enriched by the author’s palpable feelings for the remote Gulf of Finland. The island setting, where she herself kept a holiday cottage. That it has taken more than half … Read more