Isaac Brock turns 50 and releases his best album in two decades, confronting mortality and trying to settle down after a lifetime of unruly instability.

SpaceX tests Starfall, a saucer-shaped reentry pod built to deliver cargo anywhere on Earth from low-Earth orbit via Falcon 9.

The Black List and Zando’s Evil Twin imprint launch a manuscript competition offering $25,000 for an unpublished horror novel. Submissions close November 20, 2026.

Colson Whitehead closes his Harlem crime trilogy with “Cool Machine,” a reckoning with the city that shaped him and the private pressures behind his restless reinventions.