With its new winner, the Booker Prize champions plot over prose. Is this a needed revival of narrative or a loss for experimental fiction?
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By Lana Sterling For twenty years, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair existed as cinema’s most tantalising ghost. Quentin Tarantino screened it at Cannes in…
By Lana Sterling There is a particular cruelty to the wellness industry: it targets people who are already broken, sells them the promise of wholeness,…
By Maria Bregman is a cultural strategist, art and literary critic and documentary filmmaker who works across art, technology and business. Editor-in-Chief of Creativity’s UK,…
By Maria Bregman – founder and Editor-in-Chief of Creativitys.UK; writer, filmmaker, and UK Global Talent. In corporate boardrooms, at international economic forums, and climate summits,…
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By Lana Sterling When Warner Bros. pushed Mortal Kombat II from its original October 2025 date to May 2026, director Simon McQuoid called it a…
By Alexander Stone The conventional reading of 2024’s cultural landscape – a patchwork of nostalgia, streaming expansion and feel-good diversity – misses the point entirely.…