With her debut book, The Right to Sex, a 36-year-old Oxford don is dazzling everyone from Vogue to Prospect magazine. She discusses porn, gender dysphoria – and why her students are no snowflakesIf All Souls is one of the most inordinately beautiful co…
Tate donor warns: ‘I’ll take back my £20m Francis Bacon collection’
Barry Joule, a close friend of the artist, says the gallery has not kept to a pledge to stage exhibitions of the worksWhen more than 1,200 sketches, photographs and documents from the studio of Francis Bacon were donated to the Tate in 2004, it was des…
Dev Patel: ‘The allure of the job is to change’
From Slumdog’s quick-witted hero to a medieval warrior in The Green Knight, Dev Patel has always sought to be an everymanDev Patel was enjoying the ride, but people were saying the horse was too small. It was the winter of 2019. Patel was in Ireland, p…
Why public schoolboys like me and Boris Johnson aren’t fit to run our country
Our elite schools foster emotional austerity and fierce clique loyalty. Here a privately educated writer of the prime minister’s generation reveals the lasting damage public schools doScroll down for a Q&A with Richard BeardI had a feeling I couldn…
Sunday with Lesley Manville: ‘Champagne on a Sunday is always a treat’
The actor describes her pleasant laid-back day of rest with kitchen karaoke and friendsHow does Sunday start? With a gasp as I wake up, followed by that relief of remembering I’ve no work commitments. I try to lie in until 9am, then make a fresh ginger…
仮想空間での「VR酔い」が起きるメカニズムと、その解決法
仮想現実(VR)の体験がますます多くの人にとって身近になったいま、プレイヤーを悩ませているのが「VR酔い」だ。いったいVR酔いは、なぜ起きるのか? その原因と解決法を紹介しよう。
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Natsiaa 2021: the winners and finalists of Australia’s Indigenous art prize – in pictures
Western Australian artist Timo Hogan has won the coveted National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art award for his work, Lake Baker 2020.Hogan’s spectacular painting pays homage to his father’s country and invites the onlooker to witness his kno…
Dennis Thomas, founding member of Kool & the Gang, dies aged 70
‘Dee Tee’ played alto sax, flute and percussion and was stylist for celebrated soul-funk bandDennis “Dee Tee” Thomas, a founding member of the long-running soul-funk band Kool & the Gang, known for such hits as Celebration and Get Down On It, has d…
Lizzo: rapper, flautist, activist … with charisma to spare
She’s had hard times in the past, but the irrepressible plus-sized superstar from Minnesota is back with a new single that continues her crusade for positivity and never giving upIn the video to her multi-platinum hit single Truth Hurts, Lizzo gets mar…
Martin Amis: ‘Style isn’t something you apply later’
The novelist on making Philip Larkin his fictional father, why writing has become a battle, and his new work about race in the USMartin Amis, 71, is the author of 15 novels, two story collections and seven works of nonfiction, including a memoir, Exper…