Sentimental Value is a 2025 Norwegian film directed by Joachim Trier, starring Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, and Elle Fanning. The basic premise of the film is that a washed up film director, played by Stellan Skarsgård, reunites with his estranged daughters Nora and Agnes to make a comeback film.

If Prince Andrew’s arrest was meant to signal the law’s neutrality despite the status that public figures may hold, the underwhelming resolution to this drama has instead reinforced the opposite perception. Across the Atlantic, the spectacle surrounding our era’s greatest scandal has done little to restore public confidence in the impartiality of justice or the strength of our institutions.

The Holdovers is a film made by Alexander Payne in 2023, already having been hailed as a standard of the prep school story genre over the past few years. The movie follows the relationship between Paul Hunham, a classics teacher at Barton Academy, and Angus Tully, who has been left behind over Christmas break while his mother goes on vacation with her new husband.

For a long time, many have wondered whether rock as a genre itself is “dead”. Since the 90s, it’s seemed like the genre has seeped back into the cultural underground, lost in the cultural periphery. But Brooklyn’s Fort Greene has produced a new phenomenon that has turned the tides of popular culture.

Browning's past has been storied with various student-led initiatives, and “The Lit” was one of them: a club dedicated to the seasonal publication of short stories, poems, and assorted writings completely produced by the student body. These past publications are doubtlessly reflective of a strong literary tradition that has continued to this day at Browning. After five years of Covid-induced dormancy, The Lit has come back this year better than ever.

Although not achieving the outcome they desired in their first year calling 64th Street home, the Browning Varsity Basketball team overcame many adversities and built a solid foundation for many years to come.

As the age of NIL continues to consume collegiate athletics, a new financial institution has entered the mix: the dominant Private Equity industry. Initially intended to support collegiate athletes with opportunities for community partnerships and advertisements, NIL has opened the floodgates to consumerization and commodification, rewriting the collegiate sphere to mirror that of Professional Athletics.

On February 28th, 2026, American strikes killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. That day, although no official state of war had been declared, the United States and Israel began a sustained campaign of battering central military locales in Iran under “Operation Epic Fury”. 

The newly declassified Epstein files include correspondence from Peter Mandelson—a long-time Labour politician and former ambassador to the United States under Starmer—with Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s and after Epstein's 2008 conviction in Florida on charges of sex-trafficking.

Standardized collegial testing has become something of an institution. Since the ACT and SAT were implemented, they have grown and changed to the point where they are unrecognizable from their initial forms, but remain constant in their purpose of gauging a student’s academic excellence.

Recently, a group of Sophomore writers had the pleasure of interviewing the newest member of Browning’s Computer Science Department, Mr Jeffers. A long-time expert in the robotics space, we hope you enjoy learning a bit more about one of the community's newest faces!

 This State of the Union has gained attention not for just what was said within the speech itself—it contained the typical rhetoric that the President has employed when discussing the country’s progress and problems, as well as historical statistics that back national growth since he took office—but for its reception. 

In the recently held 2025 governor and mayoral races across the country, Democrats won all of the decisive races in both key gubernatorial races and the New York City mayoral contest. These results have reshaped the political landscape and sent a clear signal about voter priorities for the upcoming 2026 midterm elections.

The recent wave of protests in Iran marks one of the most significant and sustained challenges to the country’s leadership in decades. What began in September 2022 as demonstrations reacting to the death of Mahsa Amina has quickly evolved into a broader movement questioning social restrictions, political repression and economic hardship.

Over the past 4 months, Warner Bros. Discovery has been in the midst of a rival bidding war between Netflix, Paramount Skydance, and Comcast. Larry Ellison and his son, David, the CEO of Paramount Skydance, seek to acquire Warner Bros. to incorporate it into their larger media empire.

50th Anniversary Interview between Noah L. '26 and Mr. Pelz '71, regarding Mr. Pelz’s life as a student and faculty at Browning.

David L ‘28 interviews new Upper School History Teacher Mr. Shuman.