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Canadian Poet Anne Carson Wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Swedish Academy honoured a body of work that moves between poetry, essay, translation and performance, and reached a laureate who was in Iceland, listening to the wind, when it called.

Oct 8, 2026/3 min read

Canadian poet Anne Carson speaking at a National Book Awards finalist reading in the NYU Skirball Center in New York, photographed in November 2024, a file photograph and not from the Nobel announcement

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Gears of War: E-Day Is Out Today to Strong Reviews, and a Cooler Welcome From Players on Steam

Critics have scored the Xbox prequel in the high 80s, its best result since Gears 3, but Steam buyers are about ten points less impressed. Here is what the campaign gets right and wrong.

Oct 6, 2026/2 min read

Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles on display in a shop in Nagoya, Japan, photographed on 18 January 2025, a file photograph illustrative of the platform and not a scene from the game

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Verity Beat Tom Cruise's Digger at the Box Office, Despite a 34 Percent Score From Critics

Anne Hathaway's Colleen Hoover adaptation took $32.6 million in North America, while Cruise's costly Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu satire managed $8 million and fifth place, his weakest opening in 19 years.

Oct 5, 2026/2 min read

Actress Anne Hathaway, the star of Verity, at a press conference in February 2023, a file photograph and not a still from the film

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Bulgaria Brought Tsar Samuel Home After a Thousand Years, Sending 48 Relics Back to Greece in Exchange

Greece handed over the remains of the 11th-century ruler on Saturday, and Sofia received them with a state ceremony, fighter jet escort and a 21-gun salute, in a swap for objects taken during the First World War.

Oct 3, 2026/2 min read

The Church of St Sophia in Sofia, Bulgaria, where the tsar's remains were taken, photographed in November 2018 and not during the ceremony

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The Hamptons Film Festival Opens Tonight With Peter Farrelly's I Play Rocky, Starting an 11-Day Run

The 34th Hamptons International Film Festival begins on Friday with the East Coast premiere of a film about how Sylvester Stallone fought to write and star in Rocky, and runs to 12 October.

Oct 2, 2026/2 min read

Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, a cultural venue in the town that hosts the festival, photographed in March 2012 and not an image from this year's opening night

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The British Museum's New Korea Show Traces 2,000 Years of Art the Institution Had Never Given Its Own Exhibition Before

Korea, which opens 1 October in the Joseph Hotung Great Court Gallery, is the British Museum's first major exhibition devoted to Korean art and history in more than 40 years, drawing partly on the late Samsung chairman's donated collection.

Oct 1, 2026/2 min read

Traditional Korean earthenware storage jars, known as jangdok, photographed in Gangjin, South Korea in May 2015, illustrative of Korean ceramic craft and not an object from the exhibition itself

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David Hartt Turned the Met's Own Versailles Panorama Into a Meditation on Paris's Forgotten Edges

A new site-specific installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art pairs John Vanderlyn's 1819 panorama of Versailles with David Hartt's film of Paris's ring road and margins, scored by musician Jeff Parker.

Sep 29, 2026/2 min read

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Fifth Avenue entrance in New York, home of the Peripheries installation, photographed prior to the exhibition opening

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The New York Times and A24 Joined a Crowded Field Bidding to Buy Letterboxd for More Than $300 Million

The film social network's majority owner Tiny is fielding offers from Sony, Netflix, Paramount, private equity firms and now the Times and A24, a field wide enough that dealmakers are calling the platform a phenomenon.

Sep 27, 2026/2 min read

The IFC Center, an independent movie theatre in New York City, illustrative of the film culture Letterboxd serves and not a party to the sale, photographed in November 2024

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A Paris Exhibition of 350 Objects Traces How 19th-Century Women Used Trousers, Ties and Top Hats to Claim Independence

Opening at the Palais Galliera on 26 September, 'A Wardrobe of One's Own' uses garments once worn by Marie-Antoinette, George Sand and Rosa Bonheur alongside anonymous amateur photographs to show how borrowed menswear became a tool of emancipation.

Sep 27, 2026/2 min read

The Palais Galliera building in Paris, home of the exhibition, photographed in May 2016

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Arthur Jafa's Largest Museum Survey, 'I Am Tony', Opens Across Two Floors of New York's New Museum

The show gathers nearly four decades of the filmmaker and artist's work, including his Golden Lion-winning film The White Album and the widely shown video Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death, alongside new paintings and sculpture.

Sep 26, 2026/2 min read

The stacked, mesh-clad boxes of the New Museum on the Bowery in New York, the building where the exhibition is held, photographed on 10 November 2008, a file photograph of the museum and not of the show

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Swicy, Nostalgia and a Duck Comeback: What Fast Food Chains Are Actually Serving This Autumn

Taco Bell paired with Olivia Rodrigo for a pink Baja Blast, Chick-fil-A launched a chicken and waffle breakfast sandwich, and P.F. Chang's brought duck back after a decade. Chains are chasing sweet-and-spicy flavour and old favourites over pumpkin spice.

Sep 25, 2026/2 min read