Aliza Aufrichtig

Welcome to our poetry challenge! Today, we’ll start memorizing a poem, including a game designed to help you learn. nyti.ms/3EJ2xvY

Poetry Challenge: Memorize ‘Recuerdo’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay Starting today, we’ll have a week of games, videos and essays to help you along the way. First up: readings by Ina Garten, Ethan Hawke and Ada Limón.

Join us at the Book Review as we embark on a week-long voyage to help you memorize a poem — something to fill the soul and focus the mind.

For about a year, I worked with a retired British academic named Alasdair Spark to solve a mystery: where did the original photo from the end of The Shining come from, and where/when was it captured?
Last week, we finally found the answer.
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Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral (Gift Article) With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.

Online vigilantes, known as “pedophile hunters,” are now using real-life violence to build a following online, attacking more than 170 people since 2023.

From @aric.bsky.social, @alizauf.bsky.social, @iamrumz.bsky.social, Joyce Ho, Natalie Reneau and me

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Just took a NYT quiz matching film reviews with review headlines and film posters. It shouldn’t have been hard, since some of the reviews are mine. But this is the Times’ verdict:

“Not bad. You may yet become a cinephile.”

Ok, I’ll try.

A Movie Game: Can You Match the Oscar-Nominated Film to Our Headline? We picked 20 movies that have been nominated for an Oscar since 1990 and found the headlines that ran with each New York Times review. Can you pair them correctly?

Happy Oscars weekend! Why not kick it off with a game that @edenweingart.bsky.social and I made for you?

Can you match the Oscar-nominated film to the @nytimes.com headline from its original review?

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Which Romance Novel Should You Read Next? Tell us a few things about what you like, and we’ll give you a spot-on recommendation.

Here's a fun way to get your next romance novel recommendation.

Find Your New Favorite Song from 2024 Catch up on the year’s most notable music: Listen to the 450-plus tracks we reviewed this year, save them to a playlist and share it with your friends.

Find your new favorite song from the 450+ that the @nytimes.com reviewed this year. (A fun big final project of the year!)

Match the Taylor Swift Song to the Poem Inspired By Her Music Famous poets (tortured or not) have taken inspiration from Swift's music. Can you match the poem to the song?

In the new anthology “Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift,” various writers — Pulitzer winners, best sellers and poet laureates — each take one of Swift's songs and alchemize it into an original poem. Can you match them? Take our quiz.

Here's what I've read and what I want to read! (I also made those little checkboxes / cards to help you keep track).

100 Notable Books of 2024 Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Happy @nytimes.com Notable Books day! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...