Tom Sturridge as Dream in Netflix's The Sandman. Liam Daniel/Netflix hide caption
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The Penguin logo is visible on the spine of a book. The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster to block the companies from completing a merger valued at $2.175 billion. Tim Ireland/PA Images via Getty Images hide caption
Authors and bookstore owners worry a big publishing merger will affect diversity
Morpheus (Tom Sturridge) blows you a kiss in The Sandman. Netflix hide caption
Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brad Pitt in a scene from the film Bullet Train. Sony Pictures hide caption
Will her bike wind up in that canal? AURORE BELOT/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Why do so many bikes end up underwater? The reasons can be weird and varied
A bag of assorted pills and prescription drugs is dropped off for disposal during the Drug Enforcement Administration's National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on April 24, 2021 in Los Angeles. Patrick T. Falon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
New book chronicles how America's opioid industry operated like a drug cartel
PEN literary service award recipient Stephen King attends the 2018 PEN Literary Gala at the American Museum of Natural History on May 22, 2018, in New York. Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption
FILE - A sign urges the release of the monkeypox vaccine during a protest in San Francisco, July 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File) Haven Daley/AP hide caption
Poet Alora Young. Sonya Smith/Penguin Random House hide caption
In a new memoir in verse, Alora Young traces the lives of generations of Black women
How to know when you spend too much time online and need to log off
Many of Megan Miranda's thrillers make nature — the deep woods or a steep trail — a central and often menacing character. Elissa Nadworny/NPR hide caption
How do you write a captivating thriller? This author found clues in the woods
The immersive novel 'Tomorrow' is a winner for gamers and n00bs alike
Briana Scurry blocks a penalty shootout during overtime of the Women's World Cup Final against China at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., July 10, 1999. The U.S. team won 5-4 on penalties. Eric Risberg/AP hide caption
A brain injury cut short Briana Scurry's soccer career. It didn't end her story
Jon Auvil, center, receives an Ernest Hemingway bust and congratulations after he won the 2022 Hemingway Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Fla. Left of Auvil is Joe Maxey, the 2019 winner, and at right is Fred Johnson, who won in 1986. It was Auvil's eighth attempt in the annual contest. Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP hide caption
Jaquel Spivey and the cast of "A Strange Loop" perform at the 75th annual Tony Awards on June 12 at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP hide caption
Sir Mark Lowcock, the former head of the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, has written a memoir, Relief Chief: A Manifesto for Saving Lives in Dire Times. In 2017, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath for his work in international development. Thierry Roge/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Ottessa Moshfegh's new book, Lapvona, is her most gruesome and graphic work to date. Andrew Casey/Courtesy of Penguin Random House hide caption
The San Antonio Soldados and the Kansas City Stampede face off during the 2021 regular Major League Quidditch season last July in Round Rock, Texas. The league and the sport's governing bodies announced on Tuesday that the sport is rebranding as quadball. Major League Quidditch hide caption
Quidditch rebrands as quadball and further distances itself from Harry Potter author
Ingrid Rojas Contreras. Jamil Hellu/Doubleday hide caption