All the same, few comic characters were as militant as Superman. In one early issue, he demolishes a row of slum homes in order to force the authorities to build better housing (a risky strategy, that one). In another, he...
By that measure, All Fours has been an unequivocal success. On July's Substack page, a community of women have gathered to share not just their love for the book, but how it has changed their lives. They talk of feeling...
The harsh conditions were totally alien to most people there. "The crew complained a lot about the heat, humidity, hotel rooms, bugs, mosquitoes," he says. "The mud – sometimes knee-deep – was a real challenge." Damien Leake, who played a...
Getty ImagesThe Championships have begun, and the quintessentially British tennis tournament has some very particular codes for attendees to follow. How are spectators expected to behave, and what should they – or should they definitely not – wear?Afternoon tea, a...
Universal StudiosStarring Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey, the latest in the dinosaur blockbuster series follows the template created by the original Jurassic Park – but it's no match for it.Eww. There is a definite whiff of staleness about the latest...
In July 1987, 38 years ago this week, a Nazi war criminal, the "Butcher of Lyon", was sentenced to life in prison by a French court for crimes against humanity. Four years earlier, in 1983, the BBC reported on how...
AlamyOne of show business's most glamorous – and notorious – images, there's more to this 1957 snapshot of Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield than might first appear.On the night of Sophia Loren's "Welcome to Hollywood" dinner party in April 1957,...
Brook RushtonFrom Superman to I Know What You Did Last Summer – these are the films to watch at the cinema and stream at home this month.A24EddingtonBest known as the horror auteur who chilled audiences with Hereditary and Midsommar, Ari...
The National Gallery, London(Credit: The National Gallery, London)They helped to make Vincent van Gogh among the most famous and influential painters in the history of art. Why did sunflowers obsess him and so many other artists before and since?When we...
Getty ImagesCited as one of the first representations of black queer popular culture, Ma Rainey's sensational Prove It on Me Blues is a landmark song that had a profound and lasting effect.One night in 1925, a party in a Chicago...
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