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How Superman started out as a radical rebel
All the same, few comic characters were as militant as Superman. In one early issue, he demolishes a row of…
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How the erotic novel All Fours captured the zeitgeist – and divided readers
By that measure, All Fours has been an unequivocal success. On July’s Substack page, a community of women have gathered…
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The inside story of the wildest shoot in film history
The harsh conditions were totally alien to most people there. “The crew complained a lot about the heat, humidity, hotel…
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The unspoken spectator rules and dress codes of the tennis tournament
Getty Images The Championships have begun, and the quintessentially British tennis tournament has some very particular codes for attendees to…
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‘Stale’ and with ‘few thrills’, it may be the weakest of the franchise
Universal Studios Starring Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey, the latest in the dinosaur blockbuster series follows the template created by…
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How the trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie shook the world
In July 1987, 38 years ago this week, a Nazi war criminal, the “Butcher of Lyon”, was sentenced to life…
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The forgotten story behind the most famous side-eye in Hollywood history
Alamy One of show business’s most glamorous – and notorious – images, there’s more to this 1957 snapshot of Sophia…
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10 of the best films to watch this July
Brook Rushton From Superman to I Know What You Did Last Summer – these are the films to watch at…
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The cryptic symbolism of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers – and what they really mean
The National Gallery, London (Credit: The National Gallery, London) They helped to make Vincent van Gogh among the most famous…
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The 1928 song that is one the world’s first gay anthems
Getty Images Cited as one of the first representations of black queer popular culture, Ma Rainey’s sensational Prove It on…
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