Culture
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The stunning retro space-age homes that are perfect for today
Ligne Roset Space-age style is skyrocketing in pop culture – in celebrities’ homes, at global design fairs and even in…
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The lost 1934 novel that gave a chilling warning about the horrors of Nazi Germany
Alamy (Credit: Alamy) Published years before WW2, Sally Carson’s prescient novel captures the dawn of Nazi tyranny in a small…
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The terrifying feats of French film legend Jean-Paul Belmondo
Alamy (Credit: Alamy) Decades before Tom Cruise was making audiences gasp, the Gallic star was getting up to even more…
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The men who broke out of Alcatraz with a spoon
Getty Images On 12 June 1962, three men escaped from Alcatraz, never to be seen again. The ultimate fate of…
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The Cold War spy mystery of the ‘vanishing frogman’
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) In 1956, Royal Navy Commander “Buster” Crabb disappeared in murky circumstances during a visit to…
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How black men have used flamboyant fashion to express pride and resistance
Tyler Mitchell (Credit: Tyler Mitchell) This year’s Costume Institute spring exhibition and Met Gala are honouring black “dandy” style, and…
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Thunderbolts* to Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: 12 of the best films to watch this May
Paramount The return of Marvel, Final Destination and Mission: Impossible franchises are among this month’s unmissable films to watch and…
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10 of the best TV shows to watch this May
Serenity Strull/ BBC From Tina Fey’s new relationship comedy to an action drama from the creator of Lost, and the…
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How 19th-Century cook Antonin Carême made extraordinary food fit for kings
Alamy A new Apple TV+ series explores the life of the so-called “King of Chefs and the Chef of Kings”…
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‘The greatest Marvel offering in years’
Disney The latest in the superhero franchise “is scrappy, scruffy-looking, down-to-earth fun”, with a “charismatic” Florence Pugh at its centre,…
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