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Is Exit Party worth reading? Short answer: yes — if you like your novels built like records, with two sides that only make sense together, and you can give a slow first half time to pay off. Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel, published by Knopf on 15 September 2026 at 320 pages, takes a […]
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China clean tech exports avoid CO2 on a scale that now rivals a large country’s entire footprint. An analysis released on 29 October 2026 estimates that solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and electric vehicles exported by China this year will, once installed, avoid about 450 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year outside China — […]
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The newest place to meet someone is not an app. Hobby dating Gen Z style starts at a pub quiz, a plant swap or a 7 a.m. bird walk — an ordinary pastime, attended on purpose, with romance allowed but never required. New figures from the events marketplace Eventbrite suggest this is no longer a […]
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Fall 2026 college enrollment barely moved. Preliminary data released on 29 October 2026 by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center put total postsecondary enrollment up just 0.2 percent on last fall, with undergraduate enrollment up 0.6 percent and graduate enrollment down 1.6 percent, according to the Clearinghouse’s report page. A year earlier, undergraduate enrollment had […]
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Florida Safe Screens Act age verification is the core of a proposal Attorney General James Uthmeier unveiled on 22 October 2026 at Polk State College in Winter Haven. The plan would make app stores check every user’s age, make phone operating systems apply age-based restrictions at device level, and make AI chatbot operators determine how […]
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The Australia National Architecture Awards 2026 winners were announced on Thursday 29 October 2026 at a ceremony at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. Forty-four awards and commendations were handed out from a shortlist of 62 entries, covering projects across Australia and overseas work by Australian architects, according to the Australian Institute of Architects’ winners list. […]
The hurricane melissa recovery one year later has a colour, and in western Jamaica it is blue. Tarpaulins still stretch over rafters in Westmoreland and St Elizabeth, weighted down with stones, a full year after the storm came ashore. Hurricane Melissa made landfall in south-western Jamaica on 28 October 2025 as a Category 5 storm, […]
North Korea ballistic missiles launched from Wonsan around midday on 29 October 2026 numbered around ten, Seoul said, a week after South Korea's offer of military talks went unanswered.
Is Exit Party worth reading? Short answer: yes — if you like your novels built like records, with two sides that only make sense together, and you can give a slow first half time to pay off. Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel, published by Knopf on 15 September 2026 at 320 pages, takes a […]
The Australia National Architecture Awards 2026 winners were announced on Thursday 29 October 2026 at a ceremony at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. Forty-four awards and commendations were handed out from a shortlist of 62 entries, covering projects across Australia and overseas work by Australian architects, according to the Australian Institute of Architects’ winners list. […]
The berlin portraits exhibition botticelli to lempicka opens with a wager: take the timeline away, and portraits start talking to each other. Portraits! Surprising Encounters from Botticelli to Lempicka opened at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie on 16 October 2026 and runs to 14 March 2027, according to CODART’s exhibition listing. Around 80 to 90 paintings and sculptures […]
Is Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus worth reading? Yes, say most reviewers — a laugh-out-loud poetry-magazine comedy with a saggy middle, a twinless-twin narrator and the same sermon-in-a-comedy voice as Lessons in Chemistry.
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