Philip Larkin wrote that ‘days are where we live’. Even in the bleakest of times, there are things you can do to improve yours. Former children’s laureate Rosen has some suggestions … It hardly needs saying but I’ll say it anyway: we live in hard times. Things that some of […]
The third season of the Amazon teen drama has become a certified phenomenon, encouraging watch parties and intense fan reactions It’s after work on a Wednesday night, and I’m at a sports bar in downtown Manhattan. It looks exactly like what you’d expect of a bar in the Financial District. […]
Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz are doing it, Guy Ritchie is doing it – and some people are even doing it with a Mary Poppins impersonator to officiate. Here, couples share why they’ve tied the knot for a second time When Jade Foster-Jerrett married Dean in 2015, the couple decided […]
The comeback of Channel 4’s fly-on-the-wall series is perfectly timed. It’s a moving, uplifting look at how children can shine with support. What a tonic for all the bad news stories about education in Britain The trailer for the new series of Educating Yorkshire is a work of art. Shot […]
Famed for his cubist portraits, the Spanish genius also created costumes for the Ballet Russes and loved the intensity of bullfights. A new show at the Tate explores the dramatic side of an uncompromising artist She is called the Weeping Woman, but that is an understatement. She grinds her teeth […]
The actor and director on struggling with Dostoevsky, her love of Maggie Smith and flossing in her car Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Lucy Lawless, 57, studied drama in Canada. In the 1990s she starred on television in Xena: Warrior Princess. She went on to appear in Battlestar Galactica, Spartacus, Parks […]
Venice film festivalA postman’s forgotten poetry collection finds new admirers in a tale of how the mystique of the past filters to the present Ed Saxberger is an amiable, unassuming New Yorker on the cusp of old age who works at the post office and wears a pen behind one […]
Venice film festivalOscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi star as the freethinking anatomist and his creature as Mary Shelley’s story is reimagined with bombast in the director’s unmistakable visual style Guillermo del Toro has created a movie about a grotesquely unnatural attempt to make a human being shocking in his physical […]
Film-maker Beau Miles set himself the challenge of planting 1,440 trees and shrubs in one day. Four years later the result is ‘totally worth it’ Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here On a patch of paddock in West Gippsland stands a small […]
The comedian and actor on what she has learned at clown school, showing her Austin costar Michael Theo around London and the weirdest thing she has done for love What do people approach you about most: Smack the Pony, Bridget Jones, Alan Partridge or shoving cake into Alex Horne’s armpits? […]