新型コロナウイルスのパンデミックをきっかけに、米国では大都市から郊外へと移住する人が増えている。こうしたなか、ベッドタウンと呼ばれる郊外の街や小都市は都市開発の立案に苦戦している。先が見えないなか、新しい住民のために何を準備すればいいのだろうか。
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The Hunt for a Killer review – Nordic noir nail-biter with a true crime twist
BBC Four’s latest import is a sensationalism-free reimagining of a 1989 Swedish murder case, which trades aspirational design and superhuman sleuths to look deep into societal woesBBC Four helped kick off Nordic noir’s British boom in 2008 when it aire…
Last Night in Soho review – a gaudy romp that’s stupidly enjoyable
Edgar Wright’s time-travel film plays like a 60s pop song building towards a big climaxThe nostalgia gauge is code-red on Last Night in Soho, a gaudy time-travel romp that whisks its modern-day heroine to a bygone London that probably never existed out…
Damon Galgut: ‘The Booker pulls a nasty little trick on you’
The South African novelist on making a pilgrimage to Cormac McCarthy’s home, his youth in apartheid-era Pretoria and being shortlisted twice for the Booker prizeNovelist and playwright Damon Galgut, 57, grew up in Pretoria, South Africa, at the height …
My summer cultural highlight? An old film where I got lost in Bette Davis’s eyes | Rachel Cooke
A 1943 melodrama offers one of the best portraits of a single woman Hollywood ever drewOut in the world again, I’ve seen a lot of new exhibitions and a bit of new theatre, the heart going out to those actors who, in spite of great reviews, are still ta…
From Italy to an Oxford library: a new home for Antonio Carluccio’s secrets
Vast collection of notes and recipes by the chef who taught Britain to love Italian food goes on display at BrookesThere was a time when buying “fresh pasta” simply meant picking up a pack of dry spaghetti rather than a tin from the shelf.Just a few de…
Self-portraits captured in total darkness – in pictures
Photographer Melanie Issaka made her series Locating the Personal in total darkness in her bedroom. Her self-portraits are photograms, a camera-less way of making images. She lay on sensitised photographic paper and struck poses, recording moments away…
Il Buco review – unhurried meditation on the beauties of geological time
Ten years after village doc Le Quattro Volte, Michelangelo Frammartino returns with an observational piece centring on a deep-cave system in CalabriaIn 2011 Italian artist Michelangelo Frammartino scored a small indie hit with a film called Le Quattro …
Jeremy Kyle received treatment for anxiety after TV show was axed
Talkshow host says he felt ‘hunted’ and ‘scapegoated’ following death of guest Steve Dymond in 2019Jeremy Kyle has said he received treatment for anxiety because he felt “hunted” and “scapegoated” after his TV show was cancelled in 2019 following the d…
Why the industry should heed China’s crackdown on video game players | Alex Hern
While the west is unlikely to follow the three-hour gaming limit for children, developers would be unwise to dismiss it too quicklyBeing a parent can feel, at times, like leading an authoritarian nation of one. You control what your subject can read, w…