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While Back to Black succeeds in avoiding harmful representations of addiction, viewers don’t get a deep insight into its realities and complexities.
Only five witches were executed in Wales, while thousands were sentenced to death in Scotland and England.
John Alec Baker’s 1967 novel, The Peregrine, recounts the story of a bird over ten winters, but his archive is the story of a very private man.
She has largely been airbrushed from history, but a new novel seeks to make Claire Clairmont visible by imagining her life after Byron.
The loyalty of fans has been exploited ever since big business realised music could be commercialised.
Many of those who celebrate Banksy hold contradictory positions on precisely the themes his works seem to address.
Photography and rock-climbing have always shared a close relationship.
The story of the ‘royal malady’ highlights the growth of the press and how it has shaped how the British public perceives the royal family.
An expert in journalists in fiction and film reviews Gillian Anderson’s portrayal of Emily Maitlis.
One hundred years after her birth, Hideko Takamine’s films deserve to be more widely seen outside Japan
That’s all your drama needs sorted for this week, plus something to feed your craft addiction and a look at Jesus’s six-pack.
Cobain was very much the anti-superstar of his time.
Documenting Spain’s #metoo moment, the film articulates women’s fury at the deeply entrenched sexism and misogyny that permeates Spanish society and culture.
Medieval scholars connected celestial events to changes that happened on the ground, such as the overthrow of the king.
The MonsterVerse is a slick, well-defined giant monster mythos that has further globalised Godzilla – and King Kong along with him.
The political thought of Hannah Arendt reminds us that we are more than our successes and failures.
This new pocket-sized book is an excellent place to begin an education about the women who have contributed to the history of western art.
We have joined a game which has been going on before our arrival, and the strategy that everyone has learned is to hide.
Angelou’s 1960s political journalism in Africa demonstrates her desire to link the struggle for civil rights in the US to global campaigns against racism.
This show has lots to say about the confusing time of life in your 30s, when some friends are settling down while others have just booked tickets for a pagan festival.
Hamaguchi’s new film is a poignant tale of capitalist expansion and the ensuing loss of rural living and environmental decline.
Widespread closures mean gay nightlife has been forced to change, but something more exciting is evolving in its place, according to a new book.
Textiles have a deceptive simplicity that conceals their potential for subversion and political dissent.
Skateparks show how the built environment can be transformed if communities, and the DIY cultures they give birth to, are allowed to flourish.