Culture
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Rags-to-riches hero or villainous torturer? The truth about Henry VIII’s scheming right-hand man Thomas Cromwell
National Portrait Gallery With her award-winning Wolf Hall series of books, novelist Hilary Mantel made sympathetic a figure long considered…
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How The White Lotus reveals the hidden codes of male nudity on screen
Warner Bros Discovery (Credit: Warner Bros Discovery) Full-frontal male nudity in all three series of The White Lotus has provoked…
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Disney’s Snow White has a major ‘identity crisis’
Disney With its creepy CGI dwarfs and muddled tone, Disney’s latest live-action remake is “not calamitous” but is a “a…
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How Tupac wrote the ultimate anthem for single mothers
; Yun Sun Park/ BBC/ Getty Images The iconic 90s hip-hop artist was known for his pained intensity. But Dear…
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The surprising story of Van Gogh’s guardian angel
Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Credit: Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) At the toughest, most turbulent time of…
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Jean-Luc Godard on the film that changed cinema
Getty Images Stylish and experimental, Breathless heralded a new era of film-making when it was released 75 years ago. In…
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Will Snow White be a ‘victim of its moment’? How the Disney remake became 2025’s most divisive film
Disney The live-action version of the classic fairy-tale animation sounded like a surefire hit. But even before it’s reached cinemas,…
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Wynton Marsalis on how jazz connects democracy and liberation
Natassja Ebert Wynton Marsalis says his approach to performing was influenced by his father (Credit: Natassja Ebert) Wynton Marsalis made…
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How the legendary tale of ‘rebel’ saint Mary of Egypt became a medieval blockbuster
Getty Images In 11th-Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A…
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Why these 1970s cabins are the ‘perfect’ holiday home
Vince Jones (Credit: Vince Jones) In pockets of the British countryside, it’s possible to stumble across clusters of beautifully designed,…
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