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New York is a city of sushi fanatics, and omakase – which translates literally as “I’ll leave it up to you” –…

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“The front of the Vauxhall looks like the prow of a Viking ship, savage and terrifying.” A battered, decapitated head…

Dita Von Teese, 53, is known as the Queen of Burlesque. Born Heather Renée Sweet in Michigan, she trained as a ballet dancer but switched to burlesque in the early Nineties. A Playboy magazine cover star and a catwalk model, she has toured the…

From Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf, from Nina Simone to Amy Winehouse, the tortured-artist archetype looms large: private torment fuelling public brilliance.

But across opera, theatre, film and television, a growing movement is pushing back…

This article was orignally published in The Conversation on 25 December 2025.

When I think about summer reading, I think about relaxing with an easy page-turner … but I also think about finally having the headspace for the more complex,…

The Critics Choice Awards are off and running with Australians Sarah Snook and Jacob Elordi taking out awards. 

Snook won Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television with All Her Fault.

Snook had not prepared a speech, saying her…

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“In Greenland, one discovers, as though for the first time, what beauty is,” Rockwell Kent wrote in 1935. “God must forgive me,” he…