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Barbara Kingsolver's first novel since Demon Copperhead follows a pianist who traded a conservatory future for a farm, a marriage and a piano-teaching life in Tennessee — then gets a call from the man who helped derail it. Published reviews call it slow, sad and masterfully built. This recommendation agrees, with one warning about the opening chapters.
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UNEP's Emissions Gap Report 2026, published Wednesday, says avoiding an overshoot of 1.5°C is no longer possible. Its lowest-overshoot path peaks at 1.7–1.8°C mid-century — and demands cuts of 18% by 2030, 45% by 2035 and 69% by 2040.
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Chokers, bomber jackets, pink filters and a Zara Larsson song from a decade ago. The "2026 is the new 2016" revival has run all year — and what people say they miss is not the year itself, but an internet that felt shared.
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A PLOS One study of 533 Indonesian students found that when large language models power personalized learning, creativity may rise — most sharply in analyzing and creating. Two other new studies complicate the picture in useful ways.
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TSMC said on Wednesday that four construction workers were killed during steel-structure work at its new Kaohsiung factory site. The company halted similar work at every construction site it runs in Taiwan while investigators work out what failed.
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Parsons architecture students built full-scale accessory dwelling units from a single biogenic material each — fiber, mineral or timber — for an exhibition running to 31 October 2026. Their wager: New York's ADU wave, projected to supply roughly 30% of new housing under City of Yes, doesn't have to be built from plastic.
A day after meeting Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Oslo, US envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in St Petersburg on 21 October to put Ukraine's ideas to Vladimir Putin — with a bitter row over Starlink and intelligence sharing hanging over the shuttle.
A smouldering grass fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright turned, in under a minute, into one of Canada's worst peacetime military tragedies - four soldiers dead, 39 in hospital, 19 of them critical. What investigators still cannot say is how it started.
Barbara Kingsolver's first novel since Demon Copperhead follows a pianist who traded a conservatory future for a farm, a marriage and a piano-teaching life in Tennessee — then gets a call from the man who helped derail it. Published reviews call it slow, sad and masterfully built. This recommendation agrees, with one warning about the opening chapters.
Parsons architecture students built full-scale accessory dwelling units from a single biogenic material each — fiber, mineral or timber — for an exhibition running to 31 October 2026. Their wager: New York's ADU wave, projected to supply roughly 30% of new housing under City of Yes, doesn't have to be built from plastic.
Saks Afridi's SpaceMosque opens at the Aga Khan Museum on 24 October: a spiritually conscious vessel, one answered prayer per person per day, and an archive of a global event nobody can quite remember. Sci-Fi Sufism, built as evidence.
Georgia Oakley's Sense and Sensibility, in US theatres from 16 October, makes Elinor and Marianne's bond the real love story. Reviewers praise the earthy look and the two leads, split on the romances, and keep tripping over the dancing.
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