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Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino Credit: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Within moments of cracking open the cover to Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland, I was sold. She has followed up her 2020 novel Parakeet with a landmark work of literary science-fiction, set in the crosshairs of “two celestially significant events occurring simultaneously: The departure of Voyager 1 and

On Tuesday afternoon, Ariana Grande broke out the vintage Christian Dior and stepped out in a shimmering satin midi dress fit for Glinda’s closet. Grande wore the pale pink number to the Golden Globes first-time nominee luncheon at The Maybourne in Beverly Hills with her mother, Joan, by her side. The star was recently nominated

A cursory glance at Maren Morris on Spotify will reveal welcome additions to her discography. As recently as last summer, the country-pop star dropped an EP, Intermission, which served as an interlude between her last album, Humble Quest, and her next release. “This feels like the calm before the storm right now,” Morris says, ahead

Jingle All the Way (1996) Watch a workaholic played by Arnold Schwarzenegger struggle to fulfill his promise to his kid for the holidays, and snag the on-demand toy of the season—Turbo-Man! Will he discover the true meaning of Christmas on his epic journey? Plenty of slapstick mall fighting might finally knock it into him. Watch

Your Place Or Mine Starring Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon, Your Place Or Mine revolves around two best friends, Peter and Debbie. They’re total opposites in both personality and living arrangements—Debbie lives with her son in Los Angeles, enjoying her routine life, while Peter is going wild in New York. Circumstances lead to them swapping

Wicked co-stars and real-life couple Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater see themselves getting engaged in the future, Entertainment Tonight reports. A source told the outlet that over a year into dating, Slater and Grande are enjoying the present but have high hopes for their future. The source said, “They’re continuing to appreciate and enjoy this

Our Little Secret Lindsay Lohan and Ian Harding star as exes who, in a truly unfortunate rom-com twist, learn that their new partners are actually siblings. Stuck spending the holidays together under one roof, the pair grapples with the shocking revelation while hiding their romantic past from everyone else—including their significant others’ judgmental mother, played

Last week, eyewitnesses told E! that Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet were seen holding hands at the after-party for A Complete Unknown in L.A. Today, TMZ ran photos and a video of the couple there. In the footage, Jenner and Chalamet linked arms and appeared in good spirits together as Chalamet spoke to people at

Benny Blanco has now given fans a peek into the moment he proposed to Selena Gomez. On Instagram, the producer posted a video clip of the two toasting champagne, Gomez’s marquise diamond ring visible on her hand. He kept the post captionless. As E! pointed out, the video also revealed some new details about the

The Yellowstone spin-off formerly known as 2024 has a new, trend-breaking title: The Madison. Although Yellowstone showrunner Taylor Sheridan has shown quite the penchant for numeric titles in prior spin-offs of his hit western drama (see: 1883, 1923, and the reportedly forthcoming 1944), the first contemporary offshoot to follow Yellowstone’s grand season 5 finale will

After the airing of its long-awaited season 5 finale, Yellowstone the series might be over, but Yellowstone as a phenomenon is far from finished. The Taylor Sheridan TV Universe is eager to protect its ever-growing territory, and with John Dutton III’s long reign at an end, his daughter will scoop up the reins in a

In late October, it was announced that Virgin River had been renewed for season seven, before season six’s release in December. The show’s success for Netflix is undeniable and another season was pretty much inevitable. According to Deadline, Virgin River is Netflix’s “longest-running current original scripted series” and their “longest-running English-language drama series.” The first

Comedian Pete Davidson is funny and charming on camera, but his public persona can’t hold a candle to what people imagine he’s like in private. That’s because of his well-earned reputation as a ladies’ man. The former Saturday Night Live cast member has had a lot of famous girlfriends, which attracts a lot of interest

On Thursday, photos of Sydney Sweeney taken on her Florida estate were published, showing the Euphoria star enjoying a day by her pool in a bikini. The images began circulating on social media, with several large accounts suggesting there was something different about Sweeney’s famous figure. On Friday, she responded to the negativity on Instagram.

Spoilers below. Even by Outlander standards, the twists and turns in the second half of season 7 are coming thick and fast across the three different timelines. While it is hardly a bombshell that Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) didn’t die in a shipwreck off-screen, the news of his death set off a chain of events

Nickel Boys, based on Colson Whitehead’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, tells the gripping story of two Black teenagers navigating the horrors of a reform school in the Jim Crow South. The drama, directed by RaMell Ross, now playing in select New York theaters as of December 13 and will expand to select Los Angeles theaters

It’s the stuff of gothic horror stories—the seemingly inescapable fate of slowly morphing into your mom over time, the one person you swore you’d never turn into (or at least, the one person I swore I’d never turn into). A 2019 survey even helpfully pinpointed the age when you begin to feel and act more

Last night, Nicole Kidman wore Balenciaga haute couture to the Los Angeles premiere of her new A24 drama Babygirl. The custom-made gown, crafted by creative director Demna, was inspired by the house’s spring/summer 1964 collection. Kidman’s strapless column gown featured a fishtail hem and intricate floral detailing made of pink and ivory organza petals that

In ELLE.com’s monthly series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. This month, we spoke to Mindy Kaling, the actress and writer/creator of The Mindy Project, Never Have I Ever, and The Sex Lives of College Girls, which is in its

Selena Gomez is getting married, and her longtime friend Taylor Swift made it immediately known which role she wants in the wedding. Gomez announced her engagement to her partner, Benny Blanco, on Instagram last night. Shortly after, Swift commented, “yes I will be the flower girl.” Instagram Gomez and Blanco have been dating for a

Selena Gomez is officially off the market. The singer, actress, and Rare Beauty founder is engaged to Benny Blanco, the man she called the “love of my life” just last month. She shared the happy news on Instagram in a carousel featuring a close-up photo of her pear-shaped diamond, a picnic with Taco Bell, and

In Pablo Larraín’s Maria, Angelina Jolie transforms into the late opera diva Maria Callas—not just physically, with her chic French wardrobe, luxurious stage looks, and curly wigs, but also vocally. The film features a mixture of her own live vocals and Callas’s archival recordings, but still, Jolie underwent a lot of training to take on

While Marisa Tomei might be best known for her Academy-Award winning performance as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny or her role as May Parker in Spider-Man: No Way Home, her true love is actually the theater. Tomei, who currently stars Off-Broadway in The New Group’s production of Jessica Goldberg’s play Babe, felt a

Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez have competed before at music awards shows, but for the first time, the actresses are going head-to-head at the Golden Globes in the best supporting actress category. The competition hasn’t changed their offscreen relationship though. At today’s Academy Women’s Luncheon, they were seated next to each other. They took photos