Category: 5. Entertainment

What’s your go-to productivity trick or daily habit?

I tend to work in blocks of time that follow the seasons. In summer, I spend the month of August writing every day and being with the children – it’s an incredible gift of time that comes…

Hungry? NPR is here to serve you just a few of our favorite cookbooks from 2025, recommended by NPR staffers and food writer T. Susan Chang. Recipes here hail from all over the world: St. Lucia, Italy, Pakistan, the American South. Whether…

This week saw the launch of the final episode of our hit podcast Jane Austen’s Paper Trail (although a bonus Q&A episode is coming in January for any Austen fans experiencing withdrawal).

Episode six is devoted to Austen’s last novel…

When Jane Austen died in July 1817, aged just 41, she was buried in Winchester Cathedral. I moved to the city in 2025. As a lecturer in English literature, I have long researched and taught Austen’s novels, so I was keen to visit her final…

It’s party time.

Between office-wide white elephant swaps and New Year’s Eve blowout bashes, the December calendar can book up quickly, with one social obligation after another, all with the same dress code: festive. In fashion terms,…

It’s two days before Thanksgiving and Hillary Cohen and Samantha Luu are trying to figure out how they’re going to cook 120 turkeys with limited oven space in their food warehouse in downtown LA. “We’re going to have to do a bit of…

Frank Gehry, the architect behind the Guggenheim Bilbao, Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles, and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, among other museums and art spaces, died last Friday at his home in Santa Monica, California. He was 96….

A Hollywood director was convicted Thursday on charges that he scammed Netflix out of $11m for a show that never materialized, while he instead used the cash for lavish purchases that included several Rolls-Royces, a Ferrari and about $1m in…

Lombard Odier is proud to have earned a Bronze Effie Award at the 2025 Effie Awards Europe, a globally recognised symbol of marketing effectiveness. This honour celebrates the campaign Rethinking Through the Noise, an idea born from our rethink…