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It’s hard to overstate Jack Antonoff’s influence on pop music: He’s written or produced some of the biggest songs with some of the biggest names in the business, while also performing as lead singer of the band Bleachers. Correspondent Tracy Smith talked with the 11-time Grammy-winner about his latest milestones, from a sold-out show at…

Capsule launches that will bring Starliner crew home SpaceX launches capsule that will give Starliner crew a ride home 01:51 In one of the most dramatic, high-risk space flights to date, SpaceX launched a gargantuan Super Heavy-Starship rocket on an unpiloted test flight Sunday and then used giant “mechazilla” mechanical arms on the pad gantry…

10/13: The Book Report by Washington Post critic Ron Charles 10/13: The Book Report by Washington Post critic Ron Charles 02:50 By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles Here are four great new books to sink into this fall.  W.W. Norton The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Powers is back with “Playground” (W.W. Norton­), a brilliant…

The “Sunday Morning” book reviewer offers his picks from this month’s new fiction and non-fiction titles, including bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari’s latest, “Nexus,” a look at how information has shaped society.

One person was killed and at least nine others injured in a shooting just blocks from the Tennessee State University campus in Nashville Saturday evening, authorities said. The deceased person was a 24-year-old man, and at least three of the wounded are younger than 18, the Nashville Police Department said in a social media post….

W.W. Norton We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. “Playground” (W.W. Norton), the latest novel by Richard Powers (the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Overstory”), explores artificial intelligence and the race to save the oceans. Its multi-track story concerns a computer genius looking back at his life; an oceanographer…

Random House We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the bestseller “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” returns with “Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI” (Random House). It examines how intelligence has shaped and controlled civilizations…

Scribner We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In “Creation Lake” (Scribner), a tricky comic thriller from Rachel Kushner, a female American secret agent infiltrates a rural French commune of environmental terrorists who follow a mysterious spiritual leader whose teachings are aimed at replicating the lives of the Neanderthals….

Riverhead We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. “Colored Television” (Riverhead Books), a satirical novel from Danzy Senna (the bestselling author of “Caucasia”), features a writer who can’t sell her ambitious book about biracial people in history, who considers selling out to Hollywood by transforming it into a TV…

Levi’s Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers, is growing an organic farm on the rooftop, harvesting all kinds of produce for concert-goers and football fans alike. The “Faithful Farm” is a strategy to sustainably grow and serve food on the premises. Anne Makovec has more.