All posts tagged: Sophie

Conservatives find their fighter in Sophie Cunningham

Conservatives find their fighter in Sophie Cunningham

Published by Sam Flores

Indiana is in many ways a liminal state, the place you pass through between scruffy Cleveland and business-like Chicago, with little to inspire romantic odes to home. Its glacial flatness doesn’t lend itself to crusades, or to impressive scenes like a man on horseback silhouetted against the sunset. But Sophie Cunningham has let the state turn her into a combination of Sancho Panza and Don Quixote, willing to joust with a windmill.  The reserve for the WNBA’s Indiana Fever comes off the bench for the latter-day contenders, spelling for star Caitlin Clark and averaging a respectable eight points per game. When then-Connecticut Sun guard Jacy Sheldon poked Clark in the eye during a particularly physical play in 2025, Cunningham avenged the perceived slight with a headlock during a later play. Her reputation as Clark’s right-hand and enforcer spread along with the viral clip.   Since Clark’s days as a national college basketball player for the Iowa Hawkeyes, the right-wing grievance machine has tried to make Clark their Great White Hope. This seemed to accelerate in 2024 …

The Poet’s Double | Sophie Pinkham

The Poet’s Double | Sophie Pinkham

Published by José Betancourt

During the Russian famine of 1921–1922 Lyubov Balandina slipped out of her Petrograd apartment at night, armed with a knife. For the Siberian heiress, who had until recently lived in a grand house staffed by servants, this was not a matter of self-defense: she planned to cut meat from the corpse of a horse that had collapsed from hunger in the street. During this famine and those that followed, residents of the unfortunate city ate whatever was available, whether horseflesh or boiled boot leather. Balandina’s husband had been called Konstantin Wagenheim when she married him, but like St. Petersburg he had changed his name to avoid any association with Germany at the beginning of World War I. He rechristened the family “Vaginov,” a Russianized version of “Wagenheim.” (The name does not, to the Russian ear, carry the gynecological connotations that it does for English speakers.) The couple’s son Konstantin, born in 1899, spent his teenage years of world war and revolution snorting cocaine, falling in love with a homeless prostitute, and writing poetry. In this, …

Who is Yerin Ha? Meet Bridgerton’s Sophie Baek actress

Who is Yerin Ha? Meet Bridgerton’s Sophie Baek actress

Published by Daniella Wilson

While the last outing of Bridgerton featured characters that we have known and loved since season 1 with Penelope (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin (Luke Newton), this instalment shakes things up once again by introducing a brand new character to proceedings in Sophie Baek. With a name change from the original Julia Quinn novels, Sophie works as a maid but crosses paths with bohemian Bridgerton, Benedict (Luke Thompson) who embarks on a mission to find his Lady in Silver from the masquerade ball. This season is set to see him go on a search for her but the deeper we get into the series, the more we learn about Sophie and her complicated beginnings. Played by Yerin Ha, the actress teased what’s to come in an issue of Radio Times magazine, saying: “Ultimately, this is just a story about seeing who you are on the inside. What drew me to Sophie was her moral compass: she doesn’t change who she is for anybody else. It’s a real push-and-pull game, because he’s of a noble class and …

And Then There Was You by Sophie Cousens

And Then There Was You by Sophie Cousens

Published by José Betancourt

Sophie Cousens has built a devoted following with her signature blend of heartfelt romance and razor-sharp wit, and her latest offering demonstrates precisely why readers keep returning to her work. And Then There Was You arrives with a premise that feels both delightfully absurd and surprisingly timely, asking questions about love, technology, and what it truly means to find your perfect partner in an age where algorithms promise to do the hard work for us. The story introduces us to Chloe Fairway, a thirty-one-year-old production assistant whose life has taken several detours from the trajectory she once imagined. Living with her parents in Richmond after a painful breakup, working for a difficult boss who treats her like his personal errand girl, and watching her dreams of becoming a screenwriter gather dust, Chloe finds herself facing an unwelcome milestone: her ten-year Oxford reunion. The prospect of confronting former classmates who were once voted alongside her as “most likely to succeed” fills Chloe with dread. Chief among her concerns is Sean Adler, her former best friend turned …