If your 2026 resolution is to read more, you’ve come to the right place. The best new book releases from the past year leave you spoilt for choice, from romance books and historical fiction to cosy ...

Padma Viswanathan has spent her career moving between worlds, between Canada and the American South, between her own fiction and the voices of others, between English, Portuguese, and Tamil. The ...

The main attraction here is the Redwood Forest Steam Train, and this isn’t your average scenic railway. This is a narrow-gauge steam locomotive, the kind that loggers used back when California’s ...

Call this Oscars lineup a classic Sally O’Malley, because the voters nominated FIFTY, yes, 50, combined features and short films across its 24 categories. Six films landed eight or more nominations, ...

We'd like to thank the Academy—for getting it right at least a few times.

Amy Nicholson has strong opinions about which contenders should be golden come Oscar night, and which were left out.

As he approaches 90, the US composer Steve Reich speaks about playing an important part in bringing tonality and pulse back to music ...

If there’s ever a moment to slow down and lose yourself in a good book, it’s now. The first months of 2026 have already delivered a thoughtful mix of uplifting fiction, inspiring nonfiction and ...