Things To Get Excited About In 2026
Save this, future you will need it 🩵 2026 is already stacked. New albums, books and movie releases you don’t want to hear about late. This is your keep-close list. Curated by our editors. [Cover: Still from “House”, directed by Mitch Ryan]
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TV & Movies
Mother Mary - David Lowery
Apr 21
Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm on the eve of her comeback performance.
The Odyssey - Christopher Nolan
July 17
Odysseus, the legendary Greek king of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War, chronicling his encounters with mythical beings such as the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, and the witch-goddess Circe, while attempting to reunite with his wife, Penelope.
The Drama - Kristoffer Borgli
Apr 30
A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.
Music
Kiss All The Time. Disco, Ocassionally - Harry Styles
Mar 6
Detour - Kim Petras
TBD
ACT III - Beyoncé
TBD
OR3 - Olivia Rodrigo
TBD
Wuthering Heights - Charli xcx
Feb 13
Oh Yeah? Steve Lacy
TBD
Stove - Lana Del Rey
TBD
Books
The Midnight Train - Matt Haig
May 26
Land - Maggie O’Farrell
Jun 2
Half His Age - Jennette McCurdy
Jan 20
<p> The highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power – and the (often misguided) lengths we’ll go to to get what we want, from Jennette McCurdy, the three-million copy, Sunday Times bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died. </p> <p>Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Hurting. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all? Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher.</p> <p>Mr Korgy, with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films that she doesn’t? Or are they actually kindred spirits, sharing the same filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does.</p> <p>Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is an incisive study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles in her effort to be seen, to be desired and to be loved.</p>
