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60 great albums you've probably never heard
From undiscovered classics by artists you've never heard of to underrated gems by all-time greats… Find your next favourite album here
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The Victorian Stephen King? Why MR James continues to haunt us
Casting the Runes, the first edition of the writer’s letters, reveals just how little we know about the man behind the horror
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How Vladimir Putin turned Orwell’s 1984 into a reality
In Russia, Ukraine is run by ‘fascists’ and Orwell was describing the West. But a few Winston Smiths are using the great novel to fight back
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This is the most (accidentally) hilarious book of 2022
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's Don't Trust your Gut feels like a parody of a TED talk, harnessing big data to tell us… the bleeding obvious
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We're heading for a future where all pop music will be scrubbed of human imperfection
At the end of a year in which ABBA morphed into 'Abbatars' and investment funds hoovered up back catalogues, a fight rages for music's soul
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The BBC podcast holding the corporation's feet to the fire over Stonewall
Stephen Nolan's podcast about the influence of the LGBTQ+ lobbying group on the BBC was witty and fearless – it deserves a wider audience
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It's time to let Robert Schumann and his troubled mind rest in peace
Since 1856, the composer's death has been endlessly debated. But was his mind ravaged by an STI – or something more strange?
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‘My parents said this film would ruin me’: how The Servant shocked 1960s Britain
James Fox, Sarah Miles and Wendy Craig talk about their roles in Joseph Losey's controversial masterpiece as it gets a cinematic rerelease
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Meet the photo-obsessed Shah of Iran, who shared his artistic passion with his 84 wives
Nasir al-Din installed eunuchs in his darkroom, shot his beloved cat – and sparked a visual revolution
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Friends: The Reunion, first-look review: the gang's back – and it was like they never went away
17 years felt like the blink of an eye as the cast returned to the sofa for a star-studded game show. It shouldn't have worked – but it did
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Hilary Mantel on staging her novels: ‘Gender-flipping could diminish the women’s stories’
With an adaptation of The Mirror and the Light en route, the novelist discusses bringing Henry VIII's right-hand man to the theatre
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Sex, death, and great room service: the wildest celebrity tales from inside the Chateau Marmont
The Hollywood institution has long been the scene of illicit affairs, wild parties and strange ending. But are its glory days over?
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How Ethan Hunt, Korben Dallas and Poncefort Pike became the oddly-named saviours of film
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All the juicy details from the £1 million Mick Jagger memoir the world may never see
The rocker's tell-all manuscript will likely never emerge as he found the process 'dull'. But the book would have been anything but
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Satan Shoes and rubber-chicken bongs: meet the mysterious ‘art collective’ MSCHF
They run on ‘chaos’ and their enemies include Mark Zuckerberg – but as the provocateurs draw fire from Nike, have they gone too far?
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Meet Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Britain's first vaccinator
Jo Willett's biography tells how the aristocratic female adventurer brought smallpox inoculation to this country from Turkey in 1721
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How Channel 5’s new Churchill documentary escaped the cancel mob
The director of a new documentary series on Britain’s wartime leader explains how they balanced current attitudes and historical rigour
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Sherlock Holmes and the curious case of the never-ending spin-offs
The ever-popular consulting detective has proved a gold mine for adaptations but don’t blame the fans – his creator got there first
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Spring has sprung – and I can't stand it
Mowers churning, raucous birdsong, leaf blowers – am I alone in finding it all too much?
