No one is more suited to playing a godlike otherworldly creature. Yet no one, surely, needs this kind of movie less. Unless…There is something going on with Eternals, Oscar winner Chloé Zhao’s debut dip into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Perhaps it’s …
‘You upgrade your phone, why not your marriage?’ The TV show set to send divorce rates soaring
Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage shook the world – and spiked divorce rates. Could the remake, with Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac, be even more controversial? Its director Hagai Levi bares allIn 1973, Ingmar Bergman released Scenes from a Mar…
民衆のブラック・ツイッター史 第1部：Coming Together (2008–12年)
日本におけるツイッター史があるように、米国の黒人には「ブラック・ツイッター」があった。「#UknowUrBlackWhen（あなたが黒人だとわかるのはいつ）」から「#BlackLivesMatter（黒人の命も大切だ）」まで、ゆるやかなオンラインネットワークが、いかにして巨大なポップカルチャーとなり、社会正義の原動力となり、未来を見通すレンズとなったのかを追う民衆史。第1部はその黎明期から変革前夜まで。
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Mary Beard: ‘Virgil was a radical rap artist of the first century BC’
The classics professor and author on being inspired by Mary Douglas and terrified by Beatrix PotterMy earliest reading memoryWhen I was about four, my mother read me Beatrix Potter’s The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit. It was so scary (with the hunter’s …
アップルとアマゾンの新製品ラッシュに見るガジェット事情：2021年9月に最も読まれた10本のストーリー
この9月に公開された記事を中心に、「WIRED.jp」で最も読まれた10本のストーリーを紹介する。アップルの新製品発表会の見どころをはじめ、全面刷新されたアマゾンの電子書籍リーダー「Kindle Paperwhite」の魅力まで、この1カ月の動きとともに振り返る。
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The Swarm: German TV adapts hit sci-fi novel in English
Broadcaster ZDF targets international sales and will dub eight-part series for domestic audienceIt topped Germany’s list of bestselling novels for eight months, and to great local excitement Frank Schätzing’s science-fiction page-turner Der Schwarm is …
Quick on the draw: Jeymes Samuel on remaking the western
Even Covid couldn’t stop the British film-maker reimagining the American genre – with one of the starriest Black casts imaginableIf you want to know who’s hot in Hollywood, have a look at the lineup for righteous and rowdy new western The Harder They F…
Burntcoat by Sarah Hall review – love under lockdown
A sculptor considers the meaning of art, sex and disaster, in this masterfully achieved miniature epic set against a deadly virusWhat if the virus had been more deadly, more infectious? What if the deaths in the UK had been in the millions rather than …
‘It feels like the start of something’: Reginald Dwayne Betts on his groundbreaking prison library project
The lawyer, poet and recent MacArthur genius grant recipient talks about his initiative Freedom Reads which offer inmates access to books across the USWhen Reginald Dwayne Betts fell in love with poetry as a young man, his reading options were limited….
Historic England to offer virtual flights over ancient landscapes
Aerial Archaeological Mapping Explorer will allow users to see landscapes from England’s pastA digital aerial archaeology tool will allow people to discover previously unknown details about local landscapes, including prehistoric hill forts, Roman sett…