— Maggie Rogers wrote and recorded her new album, "Don't Forget Me," over five days last winter. The songs came quickly and chronologically, as if she was writing "different scenes in a...

" The Beautiful Game," a new movie starring Bill Nighy and Michael Ward, is about a real international soccer tournament called the Homeless World Cup. Don't go in expecting documentary realness...

Best friends Lampo and Gelon are potters by trade, but their souls are filled with poetry. It's 412 B.C. and the city of Syracuse doesn't know what hit it when these two hatch up the best worst idea:...

It's time to take another trip to Italy, to the charming, cobblestoned streets of the Amalfi Coast, sipping coffee at cafes and looking for the la dolce vita. And it just wouldn't be fun without our...

First, Beyoncé arrived at the 2024 Grammy Awards in full cowboy regalia — making a statement without saying a word. Then, during the Super Bowl, she dropped two hybrid country songs:...

Noora Niasari's delicately moving " Shayda " puts the viewer in the shoes of an Iranian woman in Australia living in a women's shelter with her 6-year-old daughter. The violence happens before we...

David Bowie's Major Tom, sitting in his tin can. Elton John's Rocket Man, missing Earth and his wife. Matt Damon in "The Martian," left behind to starve. Matthew McConaughey in "Interstellar," weeping...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan makes long films, by movie standards, but short ones by Russian literature standards. There may be no filmmaker more consciously working in a novelistic tradition. The Turkish...

Sally Rooney will have a new novel out this fall, "Intermezzo," a story of love, family and grief centered around two brothers. Farrar, Straus and Giroux announced Thursday that the novel, the...

All is ready for the opening of Kampus Kotba, the tenth edition of the 2023 Campus Book Festival, the National Book Council said. This Festival, organised by the National Book Council (NBC), "is...