Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by a Russian Oligarch Close to Putin
Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish three-day Bahamas wedding was quietly underwritten by Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch with close ties to Vladimir Putin, who covered hundreds of thousands of dollars in wedding costs, according to a new ProPublica investigation. The revelation lands as scrutiny of Kremlin-adjacent money flowing toward the Trump family continues to intensify. ProPublica traces the paper trail — and the relationships — behind the arrangement.
Read the full story →Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
On a subantarctic island being swallowed by rising seas, a caretaker and his three children are racing to save the world’s largest seed vault before it goes under — until a half-drowned stranger washes ashore with a story that doesn’t quite add up. McConaghy turns climate anxiety into a slow-burn thriller about grief, secrets, and what people bury to protect the ones they love. A moody, elegant read for anyone who wants their eco-fiction with higher stakes.
Continue reading →Situated by Angela Duckworth
A decade after “Grit” made her a household name — and made her a target for critics who called grit just privilege in disguise — Angela Duckworth returns with an answer. “Situated” argues willpower alone was never the whole story, reframing success as a function of the environments people build around themselves, not just the character they bring to them. A more humble, more useful sequel than most follow-ups manage.
Continue reading →The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living by Dara Horn
Dara Horn made her name diagnosing how American culture flattens Jewish history into tidy morality tales — her latest turns that same unsparing eye on love, memory, and survival. Provocative title aside, this is less polemic than meditation on what it means to keep choosing life and connection in the shadow of atrocity. Fans of “People Love Dead Jews” will recognize the voice.
Continue reading →- The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett — seventeen years between novels, and Stockett still isn’t in a hurry.
- Fever Dream by Elsie Silver — a reality-dating-show leading man discovers manufactured drama isn’t the only thing that’s real.
- My Dreadful Darling by H.D. Carlton — a decade-old grave and a debt someone intends to collect open this dark romance.
- Scion by James Islington — the “Licanius Trilogy” author returns with another sprawling epic fantasy.
- The Functional Home by Julie Jones — a fresh case for space planning as the invisible skeleton of good design.
- Humble Power by Ethan Willis — a rebuttal to two decades of leadership books obsessed with charisma over character.
- Homemaking with Babs by Barbara Costello — how a 77-year-old grandmother turned fitted-sheet folding into an eight-million-view empire.
