British photographer Polly Alderton likes to put her family in the spotlight, capturing every intimate moment from cuddles with the cat to sibling scraps Continue reading…
Silverview by John le Carré review – the last complete masterwork?
The great spy novelist’s final full-length book is a precision-tooled cat and mouse chase from a bookshop in East Anglia to the old eastern blocWhile it’s perhaps true that the posthumous publications of the recently deceased have a tendency to be more…
I can’t get a refund after my theatre show was cancelled due to Covid
I’ve emailed the theatre and the agency, Encore Tickets, but just get an automated replyLast year I used the Encore Tickets website to purchase four tickets to see The Shark is Broken at the Ambassadors theatre in London. The performance was supposed t…
野生を取り戻す現代の狩猟採集的生き方とは：リワイルディングからバイオハッキングまで
自然の中で肉体的・精神的ストレスに対してポジティヴな変化を促すバイオハッキングや、ライフスタイルの再野生化を標榜するリワイルディングなど、単に自然と触れ合うだけでなく狩猟採集民のようにより深く自然とつながる現代のいくつものムーヴメントは、わたしたちをいかに“再生”するのか？ 『WIRED』中東版のクリス・ライトが身体を張って体験した。
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Squid Game Knock-Offs Are Taking Over GTA 5 Servers
Netflix’s Squid Game has taken the world by storm, and now it’s taking over Grand Theft Auto V role-playing servers. GTA fans are recreating the show’s grim children’s games across the streets of Los Santos. Winners get big cash prizes while the losers…
“狂気”のドキュメンタリー「タイガーキング」の続編決定に見る、「邪悪なもの」が売れる世界の現実
残忍で不快とも評されるNetflixのドキュメンタリー「タイガーキング：ブリーダーは虎より強者?!」の続編が発表された。2021年11月に配信が始まるこの続編は、「邪悪なもの」はよく売れるといういまの世の中の現実を反映している。
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Touched by the hand of Ithell: my fascination with a forgotten surrealist | Stewart Lee
Ithell Colquhoun’s fecund, fleshy paintings were soaked in mysticism. But was she running my life from beyond the grave?I am a travelling entertainer. I spent decades in secondhand bookshops in shabby sidestreets, filling the sick-stomach void between …
Artist Sutapa Biswas: ‘I wanted viewers to work hard and feel uncomfortable’
A new exhibition showcases an artist who has spent four decades shattering Asian stereotypes and highlighting women’s untold storiesThe artist Sutapa Biswas’s father was a legendary figure in her family: a Marxist agronomist who stood up to the governm…
Should we work less?
A shorter working week could benefit society, the environment – even the economy. Is it time to reassess our relationship with our jobs? For the last year and a half, most people have fallen into one of three categories: the unemployed, whose jobs disa…
‘A story people need to know’: behind a shocking new TV series about the opioid crisis
In the revealing new drama Dopesick, starring Michael Keaton, the horrifying story of the painkillers and the company that created them is brought to a wide audienceThey have been described as the most evil family in America – not by hyperbolic headlin…