A new series relives the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and here, those involved remember and reflect on a national scandalBob Shrum had known Bill Clinton since their student days at Georgetown University in Washington. Working as a p…
Hilary Mantel: I am ashamed to live in nation that elected this government
Double Booker prize winner tells La Repubblica she may take Irish citizenship to feel European againHilary Mantel has said she feels “ashamed” by the UK government’s treatment of migrants and asylum seekers and is intending to become an Irish citizen t…
海底の生態系がクリーンエネルギーの“代償”となりかねない現実：SZ MEMBERSHIPで最も読まれた5記事（2021年8月）
『WIRED』日本版の会員サーヴィス「SZ MEMBERSHIP」では2021年8月、「Sci-Fi」「ENVIRONMENT」「VACCINE」「DIVERSITY」をテーマとした記事を掲載した。なかでも過去100年間で定義されたSFの造語をまとめた「SF歴史辞典」の誕生秘話や、クリーンエネルギーへの転換に欠かせないレアメタルの海底採鉱が生態系に及ぼす影響など、最も読まれた5本のストーリーを紹介する。
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Grantchester review – Fleabag-esque hot priest digs into betrayal and blackmail
The long-running whodunnit returns with much customary rose-tinting of the past and a swoon-worthy Tom Brittney – before a surprising segue into the plight of gay men in the 1950s‘“Marriage is like a deckchair,” says Roy Reeves, master of entertainment…
Helping Australia’s threatened wildlife thrive – in pictures
A small team of ecologists and scientists are working to find new ways to bolster populations of Australia’s endangered native animals Continue reading…
The Lost Daughter review – Olivia Colman lights up Elena Ferrante psychodrama
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s accomplished directing debut makes humid, sensual cinema of Ferrante’s novelOlivia Colman gives a powerhouse turn in The Lost Daughter, prickly and combustible as Leda Caruso, a middle-aged languages professor on a working holiday i…
Twenty photographs of the week
The Taliban take over Kabul after the US withdrawal, Extinction Rebellion in London, protests in Gaza and Hurricane Ida – the most striking images from around the world this week Continue reading…
The D’Amelio Show: what do you do with TikTok fame?
The new reality show on Charli and Dixie D’Amelio attempts to transfer one kind of gargantuan fame into another with mixed results“I get asked why I’m famous a lot,” says Charli D’Amelio, the most followed person on TikTok, early in the third episode o…
My Homeland: song becomes poignant anthem for fleeing Afghans
Song written in 1998 by singer who left Afghanistan during the civil war has taken on new significanceAs yet another generation of Afghans fled their homeland over the past fortnight, one song has resonated as a poignant anthem for the exodus.My Homela…
Spencer review – Princess Diana’s disastrous marriage makes a magnificent farce
Kristen Stewart’s entirely compelling Di has no escape from the dress-up game of monarchy in Pablo Larraín’s unreverential movieSandringham, Christmas 1991. Bare trees, frosted fields, dead pheasants on the drive. Inside the grand house the dining tabl…