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16 cozy activities to add to your fall bucket list
Carve a pumpkin? You can do better than that. Fun and unusual ways to celebrate the season, from writing a gratitude letter to making an ancestral altar.
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The Met puts a modern artist front and center (and there's some Jackson Pollock, too)
In a blockbuster show, The Metropolitan Museum of Art places the work of two major 20th century artists side by side: the married couple Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock. (Image credit: Ernst Haas)
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Latest in the 'Divergent' universe finds a different Tris
Veronica Roth's latest, The Sixth Faction, takes us back to the beginning, where Beatrice Prior has a choice to make. This time, she chooses another path.
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Five children are taken from their parents in 'Fjord,' which won top prize at Cannes
Fjord .'/> Cristian Mungiu's latest film takes place in a small Norwegian town, where a recently arrived couple stands accused of abusing their children — but in Fjord , the truth is never quite clear.
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Stark warning – does new footage in Avengers: Endgame reveal the truth about Doctor Doom?
Warning: contains spoilers The four short scenes added to the new version has made the film the highest-grossing of all time – but the only people really enjoying this are the Disney accountants Does it really matter which film is the highest-grossing of all t
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Tenzing review – reconstruction of first summit of Everest puts Sherpa at the centre of the story
Genden Phuntsok brings charm and innocence to his portrayal of Tenzing Norgay, while Tom Hiddleston is suitably frank as Edmund Hillary Here is a well intentioned, watchable, if sometimes soft-edged film with some NatGeo production values on high mountain peak
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Other Mommy review – Jessica Chastain’s demonic double horror isn’t nightmarish enough
There’s some effectively unnerving imagery and a cleverly icy dual lead performance but this kept-from-critics shocker is a bit of a jumble The buzz surrounding the viral, limb-bending trailer of pre-Halloween horror Other Mommy was such that screen grabs beca
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‘Sometimes she publishes notes she’s scribbled on her hand’: Édouard Louis on 10 reasons to love Anne Carson
The French author discovered Carson on a bus while stranded in a snowstorm and has been enthralled by her fearless imagination ever since Where to start with Anne Carson ‘Delights await!’: Margaret Atwood and other writers on Nobel winner Anne Carson 1. Anne C
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Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s government: ‘There’s just so much lying and stealing’
Late-night hosts looked at Trump’s latest lies and his bizarre comments on Iran destroying Los Angeles and San Diego Late-night hosts poked fun at Donald Trump’s attempts to lie about crowd size once again as his administration continues to show signs of corru
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Lightsaber Darth Vader used in ‘I am your father’ Star Wars duel up for auction
Saber is expected to fetch at least $1m and is one of more than two dozen props that will be up for sale A lightsaber used by Darth Vader in the Star Wars duel where he tells Luke Skywalker “I am your father” is going up for sale at Heritage Auctions next mont
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Winning the Nobel prize in literature only underlines Anne Carson’s infinite genius | Yiyun Li
When her sons died the Book of Goose author turned to Grief Lessons, Carson’s translation of four plays by Euripides. She reflects on the ‘life sustaining’ work of an extraordinary writer • Where to start with: Anne Carson • ‘Delights await!’: Margaret Atwood
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Add to playlist: the fizzing fuzz-pop racket of Pushbike and the week’s best new tracks
Drawing from post-hardcore, twee and emo, the Exeter trio’s intoxicating energy feels like an invitation to form your own band From Exeter, UK Recommended if you like Boyracer, the Promise Ring, Rites of Spring Up next Little Bastard EP out now It’s tempting t
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'Misty Green' squanders its potential
Misty Green. '/> Chris Rock's new movie Misty Green wants to critique Hollywood's treatment of Black women. Instead, it gives star Rosalind Eleazar a half-baked role while Rock plays a moralizing savior we've seen before. (Image credit: A24)
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How do human beings explain taking part in genocide? NAZA provides a chilling look | Omer Bartov
It’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable Werner Best, a senior SS official and jurist who helped organize the Nazi death squads that
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AK Blakemore: ‘The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt was extremely silly and bad’
The poet and author on F Scott Fitzgerald’s perfect novel, losing faith in Ernest Hemingway – and the recent debut that blew her away My earliest reading memory Lynley Dodd’s Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy – where an assortment of differently shaped dogs
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End Of Abyss review – a creepy dollhouse take on Resident Evil and The Thing
PlayStation 5 (version played), Xbox, PC; Epic Games Publishing This fetchingly presented horror game brings style and scares, but overextends itself with repetition A small band of soldiers enters an abandoned facility, where puckered flesh sprouts from cold
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Why we remember: One student's journey into memory
Why one teen can't let go of the time he ate fries with his great-grandpa. (Image credit: Anand Biligiri)
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A student hated reading for years. Her podcast explores finding the right diagnosis
Middle schooler Cora Walsh of Long Island, N.Y., has won the 2026 NPR Student Podcast Challenge with a story about her journey with dyslexia. (Image credit: LA Johnson)
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