Category: Culture & Humanities
Tarantino set to premiere Once Upon a Time in Hollywood at Cannes
The director’s new film stars Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate, Leonardo DiCaprio as a former western TV star and Brad Pitt as his stunt doubleOn 21 May it will be 25 years since Pulp Fiction premiered at the Cannes film festival, before winning the Palme …
Top 10 toxic families in fiction
From Edward St Aubyn’s damaged addict to Roald Dahl’s ingenious bookworm, Hannah Beckerman picks her favourite tales of families at warToxic families in fiction go back as far as the art of storytelling itself. Greek mythology is awash with dysfunction…
The trailblazer who shocked the world
Pioneer Lois Weber was once the biggest, most daring film-maker in Hollywood
Armenian art and culture
Due to its geopolitical location with access to Europe and Asia, Armenia is the bearer of European and Eastern cultural traditions, which speaks of its uniqueness. Armenian Culture Armenia is rightfully called one of the cradles of world civilization. …
David Bailey: ‘Deneuve said it’s great we’re divorced – now we can be lovers!’
As he powers into his 80s, the photographer recalls shooting everyone from Kate Moss to Andy Warhol, shares his regrets over voting leave – and reveals how Gordon Brown pulled a fast one on him‘You look knackered,” says David Bailey, greeting me at his…
The Good Immigrant USA review – ‘our joy is as valuable as our suffering’
Immigrant writers escape the narratives imposed on them in Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman’s follow-up to The Good ImmigrantIn his excellent essay in this collection, On the Blackness of the Panther, Teju Cole asks: what’s a black panther, anyway? I…
Lenny Kravitz: ‘I wore a red suede tunic suit – I knew I was taking a risk’
The musician explains how the outfit he wore in the Are You Gonna Go My Way video made him feel powerful and beautiful, and set him apart from every other 90s performerIn the video for Are You Gonna Go My Way, I wore a red suede tunic suit: a pair of t…
‘Finally feeling happy in my skin’: American Boys captures the trans experience
Photographer Soraya Zaman traveled to 21 states to capture the trans experience in America with interviews and images Photographer Soraya Zaman has spent the past three years traveling across 21 states in America, to photograph and interview transgende…
The Act review – true crime drama tells a staggeringly disturbing story
Patricia Arquette and Joey King give strong performances in an uncomfortable new series about a horrifying case of Munchausen syndrome by proxyAt the conclusion of the first episode of The Act, Gypsy Rose Blanchard (Joey King) sits up in bed next to he…