Our list of the 20 best U.K. and Ireland albums of 2025 includes Sam Fender, PinkPantheress and more artists who elevated British and Irish music.

Public broadcasters in Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands say they will not participate in next year's event and more are expected to follow.

A renowned author has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how she's fascinated by the way people exist in our minds, and the ideas we have about those people. Claire-Louise Bennett's new book "Big Kiss, Bye-Bye ...

Late in Claire-Louise Bennett’s novel Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, the unnamed protagonist goes to Montevideo to participate in a ‘panel discussion about violent scenes from movies’. She had hesitated to accept ...

Claire-Louise Bennett’s last novel, Checkout 19, was one of the best things I read in 2022. In 2025, Bennett is back with another novel that plays with the slipperiness, vitality and insufficiency of ...

Bennett’s narrator begins by recalling her time with Xavier, a man whom she loved for many years. In fact, she still loves him, but he is much older than her and their relationship is no longer ...

The #MeToo movement may have faded from the news, but its influence still reverberates in the literary world. Recent years have seen a handful of authors reassessing relationships between young women ...

An obsessive, tortured domesticity runs through the fiction of Claire-Louise Bennett. The narrator of “Pond” (2015) forms an uncommon attachment to her seaside cottage: she takes great pains with the ...

Don't even think about reading these new books — at least, not unless they shape up real quick and start respecting the venerable genre distinctions of our forebears. The last thing we want to do is ...

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: ...

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 ...

It’s been a pretty good few weeks for Sam Bennett. The 29-year-old won his second straight Stanley Cup with the Florida Panthers, leading all players in goals and winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as the ...