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Which top titles should you be watching your calendar for? Here are some of the most anticipated games that fans will be awaiting through 2026

The age-old paradox: so many clothes, yet nothing to wear, affects us all. It’s so common to get dressed and feel uninspired, with these symptoms only relieved through buying something new. This creates a cyclical pattern – boredom leads to purchases, which in turn lead to more boredom, and so on. Since this cycle is so prominent, it’s worth asking, is “wardrobe burnout” really our own fault?

Creativity under capitalism, and how fashion designers can launch their own businesses using the free resources and guidance compiled by Virgil Abloh.

From the moment we enter the pristine white interiors of the Winchesters’ home in The Housemaid, we are suffocated by perfection, or rather the façade of it.

Image courtesy of British Library Images Swayed by the motion of the Circle Line, I grip the overhead rail with one hand, an Oxford Classics paperback in the other. The modernist fragmentations of Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf become increasingly oblique as I read (without a hint of performativity), making me wish I had a hand free to scratch my head. My attention starts to wane. Opposite, a fellow commuter smiles warmly into a screen. A message from someone close, perhaps;

Riz Ahmed stars in a 2025, modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet directed by Aneil Karia, set in economically and politically corrupt London within a British-South Asian family.

Image courtesy of Iñaki del Olmo for Unsplash I know I’m a little late to the game for 2026 reading suggestions, but I hope I’m not alone in feeling a post-Goodreads challenge burnout in February, especially amidst the assessment period cram. Anyhow, I was inspired by this burnout to help curate Goodreads to-be-read-piles this year to fight the post-challenge blues. The ‘new literary canon’ would seem like contradictory wording when the modern literary world has been so inte

Photo courtesy of Victoria Orozco via the Unsplash license As we turn our calendars to February, I’m sure many of us have in mind the much-loved (pun intended) Valentine's Day. If you’re reading this article, I’m assuming that you are a like-minded soul who is also going to be single on the 14th, with no lover in sight. Don’t worry, I’m right there with you. As a former Valentine's Day hater, every time February would creep up on me, I used to think: great – for the next th

Low-rise denim hugs the hips under dim party lighting, bodies moving through thick, heavy air. Perfectly drawn eyeliner softens into smeared shadows, sequins catching flashes of purple as faux-fur coats slip from bare shoulders on cold campus nights. In Tell Me Lies, the late 2000s return not as a glossy Y2K fantasy, but as something raw, emotional

By choosing to perform ‘Soft Spine’ at the 2026 Grammys Premiere Ceremony, Spiritbox were confronting a system that has never known what to do with bands like them, let alone understand what they are trying to say.