Fallen angels and demi-godsThe debate over what exactly fairies are – fallen angels, demi-gods, the spirits of humans – continues, and some see their antecedents in the likes of Lilith. Possibly of Mesopotamian origin, Lilith was adopted into some Jewish...
The Drama isn't the first film to engage with high-school massacres: notable examples are Gus Van Sant's Elephant (2003) and Lynne Ramsay's We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011). The difference here is that Kristoffer Borgli, a Norwegian writer-director, puts...
Two hundred serious suspectsThe FBI was offering a $1m reward for information leading to the Unabomber's identification and conviction. Set up in 1993, its toll-free hotline, 1-800-701-BOMB, received more than 50,000 tip-offs. With all the fresh clues contained in the...
Half Man premieres 23 April on HBO and HBO Max in the US and 24 April on BBC iPlayer in the UKApple TV+(Credit: Apple TV+)11. Widow's BayMatthew Rhys (The Americans, The Beast in Me) reveals his deft comic timing in...
Some scholars have argued that Marcel Duchamp's upturned urinal, titled Fountain and signed "R Mutt", was also her work. Irene Gammel in Baroness Elsa (2002) cites the 1917 letter Duchamp sent to his sister Suzanne, in which he writes: "One...
5. The soundtrackThe series' soundtrack has been nothing less than a total bop for viewers. GQ rightly dubbed it "the best '90s mixtape on TV".Stretching from '90s clubland tracks from the likes of CeCe Peniston and En Vogue to slightly...
StudioCanal(Credit: StudioCanal)9. I SwearJohn Davidson has Tourette's syndrome, a motor disorder that compels him to make offensive remarks at the worst possible moments: he was awarded an MBE in 2019 for his awareness-raising work in Scotland, and he shouted a...
By 23 October he was ready to attack. It began with the largest British bombardment since World War One. Sickened by the carnage of that war in which he had himself been badly injured, he was determined to avoid unnecessary loss...
Galsworthy's writing career spanned the first three decades of the 20th Century and in 1932, he won the most prestigious literary award of all, the Nobel Prize "for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The...
In Creation Myth, De Groot ponders the question: to breed or not to breed? A compellingly raw audio memoir, it moves from present to past and back again as it documents its creator's innermost anxieties about motherhood. Now, from the...
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