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The Most Notable Books of Spring 2026, According to the Millions

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Millions Has Released Their Spring 2026 Book Preview The Millions released their Great Spring 2026 Book review—one of their biannual Great Book Previews—just this past Friday. Right off the bat, it gets into some of our most anticipated. There’s One Leg on Earth by ‘Pemi Aguda, London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe, Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez, and My Dear You by Rachel Khong, to name a few. In Ryan Coogler I Trust No one is beyond reproach, but after Black Panther and Sinners (and now X-Files!), Coogler is as close as it gets for me. Now, the Oscar winner is on board to executive produce a new television adaptation of Animorphs, which is, of course, the sci-fi/fantasy middle grade book series by K. A. Applegate that had then-young millennials in the tightest of vice …

7 Facts About “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” Hannah Arendt’s Most Notable Work

Published by Sam Flores

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a prominent German political philosopher of Jewish origin and a 20th-century theorist. Her work spanned a wide range of topics, including politics, power, totalitarianism, human rights, and the nature of evil. Arendt’s intellectual contributions were shaped by her personal experiences as a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany during World War II. She closely observed the rise of totalitarian regimes and the horrors of the Shoah/Holocaust, which profoundly influenced her thinking and writings. That’s how her most notable work, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, was created. In this book, she offers her controversial analysis of Adolf Eichmann’s trial, examining the bureaucratic nature of evil and the complicity of ordinary individuals in committing atrocities. What exactly does the “banality of evil” mean? Let’s find out. 1. Who Was Adolf Eichmann? Adolf Eichmann at Trial, 1961, via National Photo Collection of Israel To fully grasp Arendt’s thesis about the banality of evil, one must first confront the man at its center: Adolf Eichmann. Adolf Eichmann …

Some notable attacks on houses of worship around the world in recent years

Published by Sam Flores

Statistically, attending a weekly worship service is a remarkably safe thing to do. Global annual attendance totals many billions; the number of people killed in attacks on individual houses of worship in any given year is generally less than a few hundred. But an ambush Thursday targeting one of the nation’s largest synagogues — the latest in a spate of recent attacks targeting religious buildings — has intensified fear among clergy and worshippers worldwide. Here is a list of some of the notable attacks that have occurred on houses of worship in the past 15 years. United States March 12, 2026: A man armed with a rifle rammed his vehicle into a major reform synagogue in a Detroit suburb and was fatally shot by security. The attacker drove through a set of doors and into a hallway where something in the vehicle ignited, a sheriff said. In the minutes after the attack, smoke billowed from the synagogue, which also houses an early childhood center. No one was injured. Sept. 29, 2025: An ex-Marine smashed a …

Motorola Razr Fold hands-on: This beats Samsung and Google Pixel in notable ways

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Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. At MWC 2026, Motorola released a ton of details about the upcoming Motorola Razr Fold, the company’s first book-style foldable. Details included the cost in the European market at €1,999, which is part of a bundle of the Moto Razr Fold and the Moto Pen Ultra. Notably, the Razr Fold supports stylus input on both the inner and outer screens, an advantage of competing models by Samsung and Google. Motorola also released most of the device’s specifications, as I’ll go over below. Also: This robotic camera phone is going viral at MWC, and I can see why The outside screen will be a 6.6-inch pOLED screen with Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3. The inner screen will be a massive 8.1 inches, making it the largest in North America. It will run on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 processor and come with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. The cameras will be the same ones seen in the Motorola Signature — 50-megapixel sensors across the ultrawide, main, and …

New York Times’ Notable Book Releases for March 2026

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran over the weekend. War affects us all and demands acknowledgment even in a book news-focused newsletter. Numerous media outlets are reporting on developments as they happen, but here’s a starting place. The NYT Highlights 27 of This Month’s New Releases I hadn’t realized what a great month in books we were entering until my colleague, Jeff O’Neal, mentioned it during a recording of the Book Riot podcast when I was filling in for Rebecca Schinsky. But now it seems obvious, hard as it is to compete with a month where we got a new Tayari Jones. The New York Times highlighted 27 of this month’s new releases and it includes big names like Ibram X. Kendi, a Judy Blume biography, and my next two reads, both of which I selected for our …

New York governor clears path for robotaxis everywhere, with one notable exception

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul plans to introduce legislation that would effectively legalize robotaxis in the state — except for its most populous metropolis: New York City. Hochul, who made the comments Tuesday during her State of the State address, said the legislation would advance the next phase of the state’s autonomous vehicle pilot program. Details on the proposed legislation and when it might be released are thin. However, there are some hints contained within a document that outlines an array of proposals and promises Hochul made in her State of the State address. Among them is language to expand the state’s existing AV pilot program to allow for “the limited deployment of commercial for-hire autonomous passenger vehicles outside New York City.” The document goes on to say companies that want to operate robotaxi services commercially will have to submit applications that “demonstrate local support for AV deployment and adherence to the highest possible safety standards.” It’s not clear what “limited deployment” or “highest possible safety standards” mean. Nor does the document outline how the …

Notable Los Angeles chefs share their favorite local restaurants

Published by Sam Flores

Where do L.A.’s best chefs eat on their nights off? We caught up with a few at L.A. Times Food Bowl — including the famed Nancy Silverton, Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson of Kismet, “Stacked” cookbook author Owen Han and others — to ask about the local restaurants that continue to impress them. Their answers are as diverse as the city itself, spanning long-standing taquerias, fine-dining establishments and mom-and-pop spots from Chatsworth to Garden Grove. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that many of the restaurants they mention also appear in the 2023 101 Best Restaurants guide. As we count down the days to the 2024 101 Best Restaurants reveal party at the Hollywood Palladium on Dec. 3, we’re also revisiting the restaurants that stand out to our local culinary community, including a vibrant Caribbean restaurant in East Hollywood, a California-inflected izakaya that sits next door to a sibling sake bar, and a modern chophouse. Source link

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All posts tagged: Notable

The Most Notable Books of Spring 2026, According to the Millions

7 Facts About “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” Hannah Arendt’s Most Notable Work

Some notable attacks on houses of worship around the world in recent years

Motorola Razr Fold hands-on: This beats Samsung and Google Pixel in notable ways

New York Times’ Notable Book Releases for March 2026

New York governor clears path for robotaxis everywhere, with one notable exception