ERT, the Greek national broadcaster, has announced that a total of 264 songs have been submitted for the forthcoming 2026 Greek national selection- ...

Kéllé Bryan left in 1998, and by the turn of the millennium, Eternal had effectively disbanded, their early momentum petering out as members pursued separate careers. In 2023, plans emerged for an ...

“Big Kiss, Bye Bye” is a portrait of frustrated intimacy—and the ungovernable force of a woman’s mind.

Set in the period after a breakup, the novel contains moments of sharp analysis that appear, at times, to endorse this fatalistic vision, termed “heteropessimism” by the writer Asa Seresin in an ...

Claire-Louise Bennett, a leading purveyor of cerebral and largely plotless novels, returns with her third book. By Mark O’Connell Mark O’Connell is the author, most recently, of “A Thread of Violence: ...

Since the publication of her debut, Pond, in 2015, Claire-Louise Bennett has quietly become one of the most revered writers at work in Ireland today. Her second book, the 2021 novel Checkout 19, was a ...

Say it with flowers. Say what? This is the question Claire-Louise Bennett’s narrator might have been tempted to ask as she deals with her older lover Xavier’s endless gift of flowers. Gift-giving can ...

This week, relationships and how we interact with other people contoured the novels by Claire-Louise Bennett and Lily King selected here; in non-fiction, there is a standout memoir from Malala ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Midway through Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, the protagonist struggles in vain to explain to her ...

Taylor Swift released her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, last week — and before it was even out for a full day, listeners were already pointing out similarities between her new songs and existing ...

The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) is spearheading more than a dozen tributes across the island this September to salute Louise Bennett-Coverley, affectionately known as Miss Lou. The ...