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The Swedish Academy said it would announce the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday at 13:00, with bookmakers favoring Krasznahorkai, Murnane, Carson and Rivera Garza.
Ken Jacobs, a pioneering American experimental filmmaker who helped define New York's avant-garde film scene, died aged 92 in hospital of kidney failure, his son said.
Critics largely criticized Disney’s Tron: Ares as visually flashy but narratively hollow, saying it prioritized neon spectacle and AI themes over plot and character ahead of its Thursday cinema release.
Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia opened the Europalia festival dedicated to Spain in Brussels on Oct. 8, 2025, alongside Belgium's King Philippe and Queen Mathilde.
The National Book Foundation announced the 2025 National Book Award finalists, naming Karen Russell, Bryan Washington and Rabih Alameddine among the fiction nominees alongside Megha Majumdar and Ethan Rutherford.