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Towering spiral staircases, starry-night ceilings, stunning old cathedrals and brutalist buildings – there are bookshops across the globe that feel less like shopping spaces and more like portals to different worlds. From contemporary plant-filled spaces that feel more like lavish homes to cat-inhabited gondolas and quaint former theatres, the world’s most beautiful bookshops feature just as much variety in their size, age and style as the books which fill their shelves. Read on.  RECOMMENDED:🏛️ The museums everyone should visit in their lifetime🎭 The world’s best cities for art and culture in 2026📽️ The 100 greatest cinemas in the world right now

Is it safe to say movies are back? Sure, there’s still plenty of anxiety around the film industry and its future. But cinematically speaking, 2026 has gotten off to, arguably, the most blazing hot start since the pre-pandemic glory days, both critically and at the box office.  Of course, for our purposes, we like to focus on the creative successes, and it’s rare for the first quarter of any year to produce so many achievements of various scopes and budgets. Any time you get both a Project Hail Mary and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – not to mention leftfield triumphs like The Testament of Ann Lee, Sirât and Little Amélie or the Character of Rain – all before the calendar’s halfway point, you know it’s a good time to be a film fan, especially when there are new spectacles from Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg, Marvel and the Dune franchise on the horizon.  But that’s later. Here’s the best of what we’ve seen so far.  📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)📕 15 book-to-movie adaptations to get excited about in 2026🔥 The 40 best movies of 2025

The group trip will never get old, but jetting off on your very own solo jaunt is an experience that might well change how you travel permanently. After all, there’s a good chance that once you’ve caught the bug, seeking out memorable experiences, enjoying complete cultural immersion and making new friends will be something you best enjoy at your own pace.  More women than ever before are solo travelling, and that’s why we’ve poured a load of time and care into compiling this tried-and-tested list of solo travel destinations. It includes countries with established traveller routes, friendly cities, good transport and plenty of chances to socialise (or prioritise quality alone time – that’s your call) so read on for our handpicked list of the planet’s best solo travel destinations for women in 2026. RECOMMENDED:🗺️ The best places in the world to travel alone🖼️ The best cities in the world for culture right now🌃 The best places in Europe for women to travel alone India-Jayne Trainor is a British-Australian travel writer based in London. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines and check out our latest travel guides written by local experts. This guide includes affiliate links, which have no influence on our editorial content. For more information, see our affiliate guidelines. 

In the beginning, there was HBO Max. (Actually, if you want to go all the way back, there was HBO Go, but that’s ancient history.) Then, it was just Max. And then, HBO Max again. Anyway, back when it was HBO Max the first time around, the platform was the place to go if you were itching to watch old episodes of The Sopranos or Sex and the City, or stream major current blockbusters without leaving your living room.  A lot of things have changed since then, and not just the name. Following the merger that formed Warner Bros. Discovery in 2022, you won’t see those huge movies in your home until they’re out of theatres for a few months. But you can still spend plenty of nights getting reacquainted with Carrie Bradshaw and Tony Soprano – and you can still get access to a ton of awesome movies. Thanks to licensing deals with the likes of Turner Classic Movies, Criterion Collection and Studio Ghibli, the platform is currently a major repository of truly great films, new and old.  Need help navigating the catalogue? Here are the 25 movies on Max you absolutely need to watch. Recommended: 💻 The best movies on Netflix right now🍏 The best movies on Apple TV+🇭 The best movies on Hulu 🗓 The best movies of 2026 so far 

Is there a more satisfying bite than the salty, smoky hit of a really, really good burger? The answer is obviously: of course not. Restaurants all over the world are crafting and griddling their own take on the classic beef burger, with homemade sauces, whacky buns, and specialty meats elevating these patties to entirely new levels. We wanted to find out where, exactly, one can find the tastiest, juiciest, most decadent and inventive burgers out there right now. So we grilled Time Out’s global team of food and drink editors about the very best burgers they’ve sunk their teeth into – then ranked them all according to the venues with the strongest star ratings on Google. The result? Fourteen lip-smacking burgers, found across some of the world’s best cities. From smashed wagyu to a ‘kitschy’ surf and turf and everything in between, these are the greatest burgers on the planet right now, each tried and tested by us. Tuck in. RECOMMENDED:🍕 The best pizzas in the world🥪 The best sandwiches in the world🥩 The best steaks in the world This list was edited by Liv Kelly, Time Out’s travel writer. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines.

With Obsession the latest smash-hit at the box office, the horror business is booming right now. Over the last few years, it’s become one of the movie industry’s most bankable genres, financially and creatively. Ryan Coogler has already made Oscar-nomination history with a vampire flick of all things, while the combination of Barbarian and Weapons has made director Zach Cregger one of Hollywood’s most exciting new voices – and that’s to say nothing of the huge box-office success of franchise entries like The Conjuring: Last Rites, Final Destination Bloodlines and Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. It’s shaping up to be another blue-ribbon year for the genre, with 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, entertaining killer monkey ripper Primate, Sam Raimi’s Send Help and, of course, Curry Barker’s Obsession scoring big with critics and audiences alike. Here’s what has stood out like a bloody knife so far. 📽️ The best movies of 2026 (so far)🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)🧟 The 100 greatest horror movies ever made

Updated for 2026: Flow, a wordless animal odyssey from Latvia starring a resourceful cat and a menagerie of other creatures, came out of nowhere in 2025 as the rare film not from Pixar, DreamWorks or any other major studio to become a sleeper hit and win an Oscar for Best Animated Feature. It’s a film families will watch together for decades to come. Cartoons aren’t just for kids, of course. But for most kids, cartoons are where a love of movies often starts. No matter how highfalutin your taste in movies as an adult, chances are, your first cinematic obsession was an animation – whether it was a classic of Disney’s Golden Age or its ’90s renaissance period, a Pixar heart-tugger or perhaps even a Studio Ghibli masterpiece. It’s a love most of us never fully grow out of, either. Ask any parent about the joys of early child-rearing and they’ll undoubtedly tell you about showing their kids a cartoon they loved as a young’un. It’s a magical experience you get from few other forms of entertainment.   But the best animated movies don’t just appeal to kids, nor childhood nostalgia. They work on multiple levels, for broad audiences and age groups. In composing this list of the greatest animated movies ever made, we polled Time Out writers and experts including Fantastic Mr Fox’s Wes Anderson and Wallace and Gromit’s Nick Park, and the results run the gamut, from from those Disney, Pixar and Ghibli no-brainers to stop-motion nightmares, psychedelic headtrips, illustrated...

History, science, art and everything in between can be found within the walls of thousands of museums around the world, so how do you narrow down the best? It’s no easy feat. The greatest museums are far more than glass cases and dusty relics, showcasing artefacts like Egyptian tombs, the first aeroplane and the world’s most valuable paintings, alongside museums celebrating space travel and the future of humankind. Stretching from the USA to the banks of the Nile and the distant shores of Tasmania, these are the museums worth travelling the world for. RECOMMENDED:🎭 The world’s best cities for art and culture in 2026🏛️ The most underrated museums in the world’s best cities📽️ The 100 greatest cinemas in the world right now

One of the greatest advantages of living in a city is having world-class art and culture right on your doorstep. On any given day, you can spend the morning seeing world-famous works of art, the afternoon browsing bookshops and poking around indie galleries, and the evening at a comedy night (or the theatre, or a gig). Then there’s all the other stuff, like neighbourhood cinemas, street art, traditional festivals and museum lates. The best bit? In many of the world’s best cities, you can experience all that wonderful human creativity for free.  Every year, Time Out sets out to find today’s cultural capitals, where enviable art collections, brilliant theatre, music and cultural celebrations are accessible and affordable to locals and visitors. To create the list this year, we asked 24,000 locals in over 150 cities to rate the quality and affordability of the culture scene where they live, and to tell us exactly what their city does best, from comedy and carnivals to live music and literature. We then combined their responses with the insight of Time Out’s culture panel – editors, writers and local experts – who voted for the cities they think are particularly exciting places to visit for culture and the arts right now. To ensure the list reflects the best cities for culture globally, we included only the highest-scoring cities for each country. In every city on this list, you’ll find legendary arts venues and absolutely jam-packed cultural calendars. Time Out’s local...

With the return of popular animes like Jujutsu Kaisen and Frieren in January, this year in anime kicked off pretty early with heroic characters, cutting-edge animation, and rave reviews from dedicated fanbases. But if the spring anime calendar offers any hints for what is to come, anime fans (or otakus and weebs, as the vernacular goes) are eating good in 2026. New titles like Witch Hat Atelier and Daemons of the Shadow Realm have already won over audiences with their early episodes, while cult favourites like Hell’s Paradise and Dorohedoro are returning to our screens after an overlong hiatus. There’s a lot to catch up on. So, here’s how to get started with the best anime of the year so far.  📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)🇯🇵 The best anime movies of all time, ranked🔥 The best movies of 2026 (so far)