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...

Shakira, the boundary-breaking Colombian performer, has been remarkably consistent since beginning her career in the early '90s. Without fail, she toured, released albums, won awards, woven global,...

As the old saying goes, there are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who like their movies with a giant evil ape swinging a vertebrae like a lasso while riding a kaiju controlled by a crystal,...

Oprah Winfrey's latest book club selection is an author and ghost writer's life story, chronicling her journey from prison and drug addiction to collaborating with the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond...

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...