Normal view

Feminism play Liberation and first world war novel Angel Down among Pulitzer winners

4 May 2026 at 20:23

This year’s winners also include Jill Lepore’s book on the constitution and Brian Goldstone’s on housing insecurity

Pulitzer prize officials awarded the fiction award to an author with a long history in fantasy, horror and young adult novels: Daniel Kraus, cited for Angel Down, a first world war narrative that unfolds in one long sentence. Liberation, Bess Wohl’s look back at the feminist consciousness-raising groups of the 1970s, received the drama prize.

Winners announced on Monday included two books rooted in the founding of the US. Jill Lepore’s We the People: A History of the US Constitution won for history, and Amanda Vaill’s Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution was the winner for biography.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Little Fang

© Photograph: Little Fang

© Photograph: Little Fang

Australia news live: four Australians among passengers on luxury cruise ship hit by deadly suspected hantavirus outbreak

4 May 2026 at 20:20

MV Hondius remains off the coast of Cape Verde after a suspected respiratory virus outbreak killed three people and left three more seriously ill. Follow today’s news live

Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it will be Stephanie Convery with the main action.

Mortgage holders are set to be hundreds of dollars worse off per month than they were at the start of the year as the Reserve Bank prepares to unload a third consecutive interest rate hike on borrowers. More coming up.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Arilson Almeida/AP

© Photograph: Arilson Almeida/AP

© Photograph: Arilson Almeida/AP

Brit ‘drug mule’ couple facing 30 years in Turkish jail after ‘trying to smuggle two suitcases of cannabis to UK’

4 May 2026 at 20:00
A YOUNG British couple are facing up to 30 years in a Turkish jail for allegedly trying to smuggle two suitcases packed with cannabis to the UK. Holly Cooper and her boyfriend Taylor Johnson, both 20, were collared within minutes of landing at Istanbul on a flight from Thailand. Customs officers swooped as they headed...

Met Museum show at new Costume Institute puts fashion in same spotlight as Egyptian artefacts

4 May 2026 at 19:22

Costume Art pairs couture pieces with items from its collection in exploration of many kinds of human bodies

Speaking at the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute spring exhibition in New York, Anna Wintour described the first Monday in May as her “favourite day of the year, and also my most terrifying one”.

This particular Monday may be more high-stakes than previous years, with Monday night’s Met Gala for the exhibition’s launch mired in controversy, owing to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos’s sponsorship of the event. It is also the inaugural exhibition for the Costume Institute’s new home: a 12,000 sq ft space, named the Condé M Nast Galleries, that puts the museum’s fashion exhibitions in a considerably more high-profile spot, right off its Great Hall.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images

Dolly Parton cancels Las Vegas residency over health issues: ‘I’ve still got some healing to do’

4 May 2026 at 19:15

The 80-year-old singer will not be performing rescheduled dates in September but assured fans she is receiving treatment and ‘improving every day’

Dolly Parton has canceled her Las Vegas residency over ongoing health issues.

The 80-year-old singer had originally been scheduled to perform six shows at Caesar’s Palace last December but moved the dates to September 2026. She has now announced on social media that she won’t be able to perform as planned.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Brandon Sloter/Getty Images

© Photograph: Brandon Sloter/Getty Images

© Photograph: Brandon Sloter/Getty Images

❌