Lifestyle » 4 weeks ago
The poet’s debut novel is a transcendent portrait of gay desire that pays homage to the English literary tradition Seán Hewitt, the author of ...
Lifestyle » 4 weeks ago
This drama about dancers could have been as fun as Fame in tutus. Instead, it is a jarring, cringe-inducing mess. Wait till you see Simon Callow as an evil billionaire!At first, Étoile looks as if it’s shaping up to be Fame in pointe shoes. One character even knowingly qu...
Lifestyle » 4 weeks ago
The UK’s first national trail was established to help secure a right to roam. To mark its anniversary, our writer takes on a particularly wild sectionHigh on the ridges of the Pennines, somewhere between the waters of Malham Tarn in the Yorkshire Dales and Kirk Yetholm in...
Entertainment » 4 weeks ago
The actor, who has spoken about artificial intelligence on multiple occasions, said the installation ‘reveals both the wonders and pitfalls of AI’An AI version of Stephen Fry’s voice is to give a talk at Hay festival this year.Visitors will be able to s...
Entertainment » 4 weeks ago
A journalist’s bracingly honest account of interviews with musicians from Brian May to Shaun RyderWhen the journalist Kate Mossman was a child, she developed an obsession with the rock band Queen. Mossman came of age in the 1990s, but the irony and snark of that decade le...
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The author’s hypnotic reading evokes the desires and existential crisis of a 45-year-old woman on a wild road trip In the second novel by writer, actor and film-maker Miranda July, a nameless Los Angeles-based artist who has had success “in several mediums” leaves behind ...
Entertainment » 4 weeks ago
Written with the cooperation of Charles Spencer, and access to BBC emails obtained through a freedom of information request, Dianarama promises ‘a radical reappraisal of a major historical event’A book about the BBC’s controversial Panorama interview with Diana, Princess ...
Lifestyle » 3 weeks ago
Eight ex-couples who split up due to infidelity are sent to a luxury villa together. It’s a grim cross between Love Island and Jeremy Kyle – and somehow also unforgivably boringFirst, an important point of order. The new Netflix television series Cheat: Unfinished Busines...
Lifestyle » 3 weeks ago
The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by émigré architects, filmmakers and writersThe Englishness of English Art sounds like something a parish-pump little Englander might like to bang on about, but it is in fact the title of an arresting st...
Lifestyle » 3 weeks ago
It’s hard to resist this moreish story about Napoleon’s renegade pastry chef (who is also a spy). Orgies, opium and tantalising fun with whipped cream are all on the menuMuch like the desserts whipped up by its titular cook, Carême is a rich, moreish and knowingly indulge...