A story widely accused on social media of being written using AI has gone on to win the overall Commonwealth short story prize. Jamir Nazir’s story The Serpent in the Grove went viral after being named as a regional winner in mid-May, with critics on X and Bluesky claiming it showed “obvious markers” of AI…
Russia’s ballistic-missile attacks against Ukraine have grown in ferocity and magnitude in recent weeks because Russian military planners are exploiting one of Ukraine’s greatest weaknesses: The Ukrainian military does not have enough Patriot missile interceptors to keep up with the barrages. Air-defense units around the country are stuck making impossible calculations. Salvos can now include…
In a never publicly released story by Edith Wharton, a dinner party goes on in a French chateau during the summer of 1918 as World War I nears its end and while the booms of guns can be heard in the distance. “The Men Who Saved the World,” a previously unreleased fictional short story by…
Mika Abdalla is skating into a new chapter. The Off Campus star and Jake Short—to whom she became engaged in 2025—have broken up, her rep confirmed. “Due to recent interest in Mika’s personal life,” Abdalla’s rep told Us Weekly, “it would feel remiss to not address that her and Jake are no longer together.” The statement…
The 4thWrite prize, an annual short story competition for Black, Asian and minority ethnic writers run by publisher 4th Estate and the Guardian, has opened for submissions. The winner will receive £1,000, a one-day publishing workshop at 4th Estate and publication of their story on the Guardian website. The shortlisted stories will be published on…
Seymour Bernstein, an acclaimed pianist who struggled to overcome a stage fright so severe that he cut short his performing career and shifted into teaching and composing, died on Thursday in Damariscotta, Maine. He was 99. His death, at an assisted-living facility, was confirmed by Bill Finizio, a friend. In the 1950s, when he was…
Martin Short is not a national treasure — the Canadian comic actor and Hollywood superstar is a full-on continental treasure. Short is getting his flowers with new Netflix documentary Marty, Life is Short, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, the writer-director of The Big Chill, Wyatt Earp and Body Heat. Kasdan is incredibly accomplished, clearly — he’s…
Kneecap have revealed the 12-minute short film ‘Irish Goodbye’, which also acts as the music video for the song of the same name, which features Kae Tempest. The song is written by member Móglaí Bap (real name Naoise Ó Cairealláin), inspired by the loss of his mother, Aoife Ní Riain, to suicide in 2020. It…
The stories in Northern Irish writer Lucy Caldwell’s fourth collection are often devoted to family life, or a professional life in the arts: or both. They’re almost always about memory and how to manage it. They offer a certain continuity with her earlier collections, Multitudes, Intimacies and Openings, though it’s subtle and organic rather than…
Investing.com — Short seller Hunterbrook Capital disclosed on Monday it has taken a short position in , citing concerns about the private equity firm’s accounting practices and vulnerability to investor redemptions. The $4 billion market cap firm, which manages or advises on $1 trillion in assets, has increasingly relied on purchasing secondary stakes in private…
