A wedding where both parties would rather stab each other than say “I do” — that’s the premise crackling at the center of H. M. Wolfe’s viral dystopian romance, and it hasn’t loosened its grip on readers since the book shot to the top of the New York Times bestseller
VIRA Broadcasting The VIRA Briefing August 17, 2026 Lead Story Windfall Profits, Windfall Fight Oil giants are cashing in on a war-driven price spike, and Washington has noticed. Analysts at Wood Mackenzie peg the industry’s 2026 windfall — profit beyond what was expected before the U.S.-Israel war with Iran began
Kathryn Stockett made her name writing about women who had to be resourceful because the world gave them no other option. “The Calamity Club,” her long-awaited return, drops us into 1933 Mississippi and asks the same question in harder economic terms: what happens when resourcefulness stops being enough, and the
A century of silence has a way of curdling into legend, and Riley Sager knows exactly how to make that legend walk again. “The Unknown,” his tenth novel, sends a film crew to a remote Vermont island to shoot a movie about the five women who vanished there in 1926
There’s an odd vulnerability in watching someone who built a career on carefully engineered pop hooks try to write something with no hooks to hide behind. Roland Orzabal, co-founder of Tears for Fears and the voice behind decades of songs about mental anguish dressed in synthesizers, has spent forty years
Peter Santenello built an audience by doing something unfashionable: showing up, sitting down, and listening. His YouTube channel has spent years taking cameras into coal towns, border communities, prison-adjacent neighborhoods, and reservations that most media coverage treats as backdrops rather than places people actually live. “Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from
There’s a particular kind of dread that only isolated islands can produce, and Riley Sager has built a career out of mining it. In “The Unknown,” the bestselling author of “The Only One Left” and “Final Girls” sends a film crew to a fog-bound speck of land off the Vermont
Seventeen years is a long time to keep readers waiting for a follow-up, but Kathryn Stockett’s return proves patience pays off. The Calamity Club arrives as one of the summer’s most-talked-about novels, currently sitting atop bestseller lists from coast to coast, and it’s easy to see why: this is a
Some books arrive as headlines. This one arrives as an archive. “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” is the product of roughly a thousand interviews conducted over two years by two of the most sourced political reporters in the country, and it reads less like a single
Somewhere between a field guide and a fever dream sits “Pokécology: An Illustrated Guide to Pokémon Ecology,” the rare bestseller list entry that made even seasoned publishing watchers do a double take this month. It showed up on Publishers Weekly’s chart in a week otherwise dominated by literary fiction and
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