'The Secret Agent' won two awards, including best actor for Wagner Moura, with Rose Byrne winning best actress for 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You.' By Hilary Lewis Deputy Editor, East Coast Elsewhere, ...

YouTube is rolling out a “recap” feature to help users look back at the year gone by, along with looking back at the most popular topics and creators across the platform in 2025. Manthra Panchapakesan ...

Last week we published our annual list of 100 Notable Books; today, we winnow that list to the 10 Best Books of 2025. And now, we’re ready to discuss them. In this week’s episode, the Book Review ...

The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

Besides colder temperatures and falling snow, the other signs of obvious signs of winter approaching are longer nights and shorter days as the winter solstice nears. Here's when and what to know about ...

Hanukkah, one of the most widely observed Jewish holidays, is weeks away from beginning. Known as the festival of lights, Hanukkah is an eight-day holiday in the Jewish faith marked by the nightly ...

Even if you don't know the meaning of the Oxford University Press' word of the year for 2025, you've probably been a victim of it on social media. The publisher for the Oxford English Dictionary said ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...

Tom Hiddleston in "Night Manager" Season 2, Yerin Ha in "Bridgerton" Season 4 and Donald Faison in "Scrubs" (Credit: Prime Video/Netflix/ABC) Just as our stomachs settle from this year’s Thanksgiving ...

The Oxford University Press promises it's not rage baiting with its two-word Word of the Year. The publishing house announced on Dec. 1 that its experts have named "rage bait" the 2025 Word of the ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?