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Socialist hotels – in pictures
Socialist Hotels is the first photography book to focus solely on the architecture of hospitality in Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet landscape. These state-constructed buildings were used by…
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The New Dark Ages by James Marriott review – a grandiose but superficial defence of reading
What is it that makes books so magical? The Times columnist somehow forgets to tell us…
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Bad Apples review – Saoirse Ronan’s suffering teacher best thing about school horror-satire
Ronan plays a teacher who finds a way to deal with a disruptive pupil in Jonatan…
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South Park – I mean, South America – is back, with no Donald Trump in sight (yet)
After adopting the president’s fondness for renaming things ‘America’, the season 29 premiere sees Trey Parker…
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‘When you tell people the story, it’s almost too good to be true’: the incredible journey behind The Cycle of Love
Documentary director Orlando von Einsiedel on how the real life tale of a man who cycles…
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Hard parties, cheap rents and horrible flats: how 90s art and fashion redefined British culture
An evocative new Tate Britain show captures an era when the UK’s newly flush creative industries…
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The Strangers by Naomi Alderman review – where has this odd new species come from?
A bereavement memoir mingles with speculative fiction, in a wise and ragged examination of grief from…
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The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream review – political scandal, 70s style
Shane O’Sullivan’s documentary weaves archive clips and snippets from films old and new to draw out…
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TV tonight: romance scams to make your blood boil
A new series picks apart some shocking cases. Plus: a rival vet arrives in the Dales…
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‘I thank God for killing me and bringing me back’: Nicolas Winding Refn on the emergency op that inspired his new sci-fi horror
Notorious for ultra-violent movies like Drive and The Neon Demon, the Dane had lost the will…