Culture
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How the obscenity trial against 1950s poem Howl reshaped US free speech
The US’s first literary obscenity trial dated back to 1821, when John Cleland’s 1779 novel Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a…
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10 stunning buildings ‘blended’ with nature
This 40,000-sq ft resort occupies a sloped terrain, and one of its aims is to minimise its impact on the…
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The poisoned umbrella that pointed to a KGB murder
A 1978 killing is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Cold War Source link
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Robert Pattinson is extraordinary as controversial paedophile-hunter Chris Hansen ★★★★★
The film is inspired by the true story of Chris Hansen, an Emmy-winning American journalist, and his most famous /…
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The hidden history of a controversial $6m banana
Art history proves the point. More than 400 years ago, Caravaggio split the opinions of his contemporaries with the groundbreaking…
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Oscar contender Wild Horse Nine attacks the CIA
The new film by Irish director Martin McDonagh is a 1970s spy yarn with bite Source link
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Gloria Steinem on her trailblazing 1972 magazine ‘for women in all their diversity’
Articulate, energetic and committed, she had carved out a name for herself in the 1960s and ’70s through her journalism,…
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Rollicking new film Ink makes divisive media mogul Rupert Murdoch into a hero
The time in question is 1969. Having made his mark in Australia, Murdoch moves to London, buys an ailing British…
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How Life of M sparked a Hollywood scandal
The plot thickened when further details of the book emerged. We learned Life of M features two main protagonists –…
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The startling 1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer
The meaning for those who built Stonehenge was, he believed, significant. “Eclipses are spectacular events that surely aroused the deepest…
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