Late last year, Interscope Records quietly dropped D4vd from its label, and in the wake of the singer’s arrest for the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, Universal Music Group has helped some of its artists who have collaborated with D4vd remove their songs from streaming platforms, Rolling Stone has learned. The “Romantic Homicide” singer, born…
Tetris Kelly caught up with LE SSERAFIM in Seoul, South Korea, and the girls have a “CELEBRATION” that launches them into a new era. They tease what to expect from their upcoming studio album, their experience of their first VR concert, the surprise they felt when “SPAGHETTI” popped off, working with BTS’ J-HOPE on the…
Dilara, the heroine of Kenan Orhan’s debut novel, is a Turkish exile living in Italy and undergoing a routine bathroom renovation that turns out to be not so routine: When the contractors leave, she steps into the refurbished space and finds herself somehow transported to an actual cell in Istanbul’s infamous Silivri Prison. Initially dismayed,…
The Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami will publish his first novel to feature a woman as the main character this summer. The Tale of Kaho will be published in Japan on 3 July, with an ebook edition released the same day. A UK edition has not yet been announced. The 352-page novel centres on Kaho, a…
R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe has given a live debut to a new solo song ‘The Rest Of Ever’ on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert – watch below. The legendary singer has been working on his first full solo album for several years and while he has said in recent weeks that it has taken “longer than I wanted”, he has said he is now adding the finishing…
When Michael Patrick became the first actor in Ireland’s theatrical history to portray Richard III as a wheelchair user, he was determined that neither his nor his character’s disability be seen as part of the play’s inherent tragedy. Instead, as he explained in an interview with the Guardian at the time, he used his still…
The real value of this odd little memoir is not his dissent, but that it offers us something more unique: the story of a staff officer who labors in a war he never witnesses. He knows almost nothing of it, and indeed never sees combat. He spends all but a few hours of his tour…
Haruki Murakami’s next novel, The Tale of KAHO, will be published on July 3rd by Shinchosha Publishing Co, the AP reports. This will be Murakami’s first full-length novel since 2023’s The City and its Uncertain Walls (published in the US in 2024). According to the publisher, “Kaho is the first lone, woman protagonist featured in…
Published on 24/04/2026 – 17:02 GMT+2 A 25-foot ice sculpture in downtown Toronto sounds peaceful enough – until it attracted flamethrowers, sledgehammers, fan frenzy, and eventually the fire brigade. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT This was Drake’s way of getting people’s attention. The Canadian rapper installed the towering sculpture in a car park in his hometown to tease…
At a ceremony last night, Aspen Words announced the winner of their annual Aspen Words Literary Prize, which awards $35,000 to “a work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture.” This year’s winner is Maria Reva, for her debut novel Endling. The AWLP jury…
