Focus / Culture - 15 hours ago
The Girls creator’s hugely anticipated return to TV is just not good enough. It’s tonally jarring, full of laboured jokes and abandons all thoughts of innovation. You expect far betterIt takes a lot of talent to make something as singular as Girls. Then 26-year-old Lena Dunham created, starred in an...
Focus / Culture - 16 hours ago
This impeccably sourced account of the secretive agency during a period of global turmoil deserves a PulitzerIn 1976 when we were both based in Brussels, my BBC mentor, the great Charles Wheeler, came back to the office from a grand US embassy party one evening and remarked: “The cleverest and most...
Focus / Culture - 16 hours ago
A lineup including Stephen Graham and Al Pacino seem wasted on this lavish, but hackneyed drama about the Italian artist Some very cliched roistering, life-affirming wine-drinking, bourgeois-defying artistic shenanigans here from the veteran screenwriting couple Jerzy and Mary Olson-Kromolowski who...
Focus / Culture - 16 hours ago
From tearful scenes in war-torn Ukraine to the photo diaries of immigrants making treacherous journeys, French agency MYOP have spent two decades taking the pulse of our era Continue reading...
Focus / Culture - 17 hours ago
He teams up with Ruth Goodman to find out the grim details. Plus: Outrageous is an underrated drama about the Mitfords. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Channel 5 The barrister and broadcaster Rob Rinder is a captivating history teacher and he is having a ball in this new series, as he learns...
Focus / Culture - 17 hours ago
This year’s French photo extravaganza showcases stunning images from across Latin America. There’s also selfie addicts, anonymous fetishists and a pharmacist taking pictures of his customers without their consentArtists have always been fascinated with imagining the invisible – but few have taken it...
Focus / Culture - 17 hours ago
Viking North at Yorkshire Museum features UK’s largest exhibition of Viking-age artefacts, including era’s ‘cheap’ jewellery and evidence of slave-owningWhen Anglo-Saxons buried their jewellery in an attempt to keep it safe from marauding Vikings, it is unlikely they envisaged their treasures would...
Focus / Culture - 18 hours ago
I worked for the author of The Talented Mr Ripley in her final months. She was so mean and secretive, I imagined she wanted to kill meI first read Patricia Highsmith’s novels in the autumn of 1994. I was 20 and living in a room in her house in Tegna, Switzerland, that was plastered with bookshelves...
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