Culture
Citizen Kim by Jonathan Van Meter review – Kardashian under the microscope
The author gets a backstage pass to the personal life of the world’s most famous woman – but what do we really learn?The magazine writer Jonathan Van Meter…
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Honouring the departed: All Souls’ Day observed in India and Bangladesh – in pictures
Devotees gather in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and across India to observe All Souls’ Day, dedicated to remembering…
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Lords of Serendipity by Randy Boyagoda review – a campus satire for this moment of crisis
This propulsive, globe-trotting tale brilliantly skewers the corruption and corporatisation of higher education It’s no secret…
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New Group review – schoolkids build human pyramids in bizarre Japanese horror-satire on conformity
Two outsider students at a super-strict high school find they are definitely not with the programme…
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Send in the clowns! Dreamlike images – in pictures
Nicolas Rachline’s stunning book Elsebound is full of painterly photographs inspired by Edward Hopper and Blade…
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TV tonight: Aidan Gillen stars in a twisty Irish crime caper
A nurse with a drug habit is tempted by a gangster’s money in Tall Tales and…
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‘At my age, I can rant!’ Bernie Taupin on Elton John, hellraising vampires and competing in full-blown rodeos
He is the outstanding lyricist who propelled the Rocket Man to 300m sales. As Taupin releases…
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Dustin Hoffman says filming The Graduate was ‘a terrible experience’ due to Mike Nichols’ ‘sadism’
In his new memoir, the actor reveals he was slapped 27 times until he was dizzy…
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The Gilded Age review – what did we do to deserve such a terrible stinker?
Julian Fellowes’ high-society period drama has, somehow, picked up Emmys and reached its fourth series. Poor…
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Tomb Raider’s creators on how the game changed their lives: ‘Skint staff were suddenly pulling up in sports cars’
‘Giving Lara Croft pistols meant we could show off her acrobatics. And when she goes to…