The Royal Ballet dancer Colin Jones became one of the most celebrated photojournalists of postwar Britain, covering subjects as diverse as working life in the industrial north-east, the English National Ballet, the Alabama race riots and African-Caribb…
‘His rage, his pain, his shame, they’re all mine’: Jeremy Strong on playing Succession’s Kendall Roy
Strong’s role as the self-destructive media heir takes commitment – and the actor goes all in• Plus: inside the Succession writers’ roomEarlier this year, Jeremy Strong left his apartment in Brooklyn, walked across the bridge to Manhattan and headed to…
Jeffrey Wright: ‘There’s a relentless, grotesque debasement of language in the US’
Cinema’s classiest actor on being wooed by Wes Anderson for The French Dispatch, playing Bond’s CIA buddy Felix and why he’s fighting for thinkers in an age of vulgarityWith his soulful gravitas, rich vocal tones and understated cool, Jeffrey Wright is…
Twenty photographs of the week
Haitian migrants attempt to reach the US, the Taliban in Kabul, wildfires in California and fuel shortages in England – the most striking images from around the world this week Continue reading…
「未来」というコモンズ。〈死〉と〈想像力〉が導く、将来世代への責任 :磯野真穂 × 戸谷洋志
いまを生きるわたしたちと100年後、1,000年後を生きる人々は時間軸を共有しえない。しかし、科学技術文明において現代世代は未来世代を滅ぼすことができる。たとえその両者で合意形成できずとも、「未来」をコモンズとして遺していくことは可能ではないか ── 。人類学者・磯野真穂、哲学者・戸谷洋志というふたりの俊英が、この壮大なスケールの問いに向き合った(雑誌『WIRED』日本版VOL.42から転載)
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The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgård review – bloated and inconsequential
His fondness for pulverising detail has always been divisive; here it fatally undermines his return to the novelTo me, a passage from Karl Ove Knausgård’s 2004 novel A Time for Everything has always seemed illustrative of his approach:the fact that the…
Sexy Beasts to Acapulco: the seven best shows to stream this week
TV’s most ludicrous dating show returns, a pioneering American woman is recognised, and there’s a feelgood new coming-of-age comedy to tuck into Continue reading…
Black History Month launches in UK with ‘proud to be’ campaign
Local authorities raise pan-African flag to mark start of series of events for October across BritainBlack History Month launches with hundreds of events across the country this October, amid a new campaign encouraging people of all ages to share what …
TV tonight: Jack O’Connell’s Arctic agonies escalate
The North Water nears its chilling climax. Plus, Tina Fey’s and Robert Carlock’s amiable sitcom, Mr Mayor, provides lighter relief Continue reading…
A new start after 60: ‘I started sketching at 72 – and graduated with a fine art degree at 96’
Archie White was a keen teenage artist, but gave it up for five decades as a solicitor. Now he is starting a new student charity and painting furiouslyArchie White says he would like to retire, but I’m not sure I believe him. This summer he made headli…