Category: 5. Entertainment

Turgut Yuksel’s hero in the graphic novel “Seven Deadly Days” is a young graphic designer whose dreary routine is instantly recognizable to a whole generation of Turkish white-collar workers. He works in one of Istanbul’s chic plazas,…

Prisoner 951

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“If you want to see your child again, you will cooperate.” The terrifying reality of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s six-year detention in Iran is told in this polished drama, which she helped produce. Narges Rashidi…

“We used to walk a total of 14 miles to the dancehall and back, in a group of girls.”

“I met a girl at a dance in Limerick, and she missed the bus home so I had to walk her home to Shanagolden and then walk back home to Foynes. I arrived…

As Mercury and Venus are moving toward an alignment in Scorpio, it’s fun to drop hints, or talk in riddles like an Egyptian sphinx or Gandalf or Yoda or even a troll under the bridge. Maybe it makes us feel wise to mix up the logic now because…

As an artist with one of the most distinctive voices in British…

Katie Razzall begins Anatomy of a Cancellation, her fine new BBC podcast about a still-bubbling literary controversy, with a meditation on Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon. This was the famous 1950 film that had four witnesses to a rape tell stories…

The works of Lithuanian artist Emilija Škarnulytė (born 1987, Vilnius) resemble an inscription into the course of time and the existing as well as created infrastructures of our planet. Her practice moves on the threshold between worlds:…

At the opening of her recent London show, Romanian artist Teodora Axente wore a dress she had stitched herself for the occasion: a sheer chiffon number, with three sleeves. The extra limb wasn’t mere whimsy, but a reference to Saint John of…

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