Culture
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Why The Great Gatsby is the world’s most misunderstood novel
Alamy The Great Gatsby is synonymous with parties, glitz and glamour – but this is just one of many misunderstandings…
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How Monty Python and the Holy Grail became a comedy legend
Emmanuel Lafont/ Getty Images 50 years after Monty Python and the Holy Grail redefined comedy, stars Michael Palin and Terry…
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Fur is firmly back in fashion – and even more divisive than ever
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) It’s having a moment with celebrities, fashionistas and Gen Z. But wearing any kind of…
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‘The plot twist tears the heart out of the series’
HBO (Credit: HBO) The video game adaptation won many plaudits for its grim-but-humane first season. Amidst a semblance of civilisation,…
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Trouble in Paradise? Why The White Lotus season three divided fans and critics
Fabio Lovino/ HBO Right from the start, season three of Mike White’s Thailand-set one percenter drama was beset by criticism…
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How the US dropped four nuclear bombs on Spain in 1966
Alamy (Credit: Alamy) In 1966, the remote Spanish village of Palomares found that the “nuclear age had fallen on them…
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Ken Burns on showing the dark parts of US history
Evan Barlow Ken Burns’s upcoming series, The American Revolution, follows works exploring themes including the US and the Holocaust (Credit:…
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11 of the best films to watch this April
Universal Studios From Drop to A Minecraft Movie, these are the films to stream at home and watch at the…
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How Last Tango in Paris’s infamous explicit scene undid its female star
Getty Images Being Maria, a new film starring Matt Dillon and Anamaria Vartolomei, explores the life of Maria Schneider and…
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‘Radically different from any other show’
Apple TV+ Jon Hamm excels in Apple TV+’s “emotionally real but absurdist” drama about a desperate corporate man who resorts…
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