Eurovision members to vote on Israeli participation happening in November nytimes.com/2025/09/25/art… Eurovision has “never faced a divisive situation like this before" says the EBU's president in a letter to members

Kneecap case dismissed nytimes.com/2025/09/26/art…

Jane Goodall's dead 😵 nytimes.com/2025/10/01/obi…

It is the only good song on there tho

Nooooooooooo nytimes.com/2025/10/06/boo… I was so jealous when Claire Moses profiled her for us nytimes.com/2024/10/17/art… and she lived up to everything you'd expect

Are you likely to win the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday and should I write some advanced copy about you just in case?

Are you (apparently, I don’t believe it) Christian Kracht?

“Les Miserables” is 40 today so wrote about its unlikely success nytimes.com/2025/10/08/the… Thoroughly recommend perusing the scathing original reviews (some pictured)

Just FYI all, Austria's chancellor has not said Austria will not host Eurovision if Israel is excluded jpost.com/israel-news/cu… (I have checked with his office)

BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

László Krasznahorkai - beloved of Sontag, Toibin, and anyone who hates full stops, wins the Nobel nytimes.com/2025/10/09/boo… Always lovely when someone wins I have prepared text for!

Eurovision's extraordinary general meeting/vote on Israeli participation isn't now taking place in November because of the peace process. Instead, EBU says, an "open and in-person discussionin-person discussion" at its General Assembly in December

No, I don't know if that means a vote will still happen. Details not released