By Alexander Stone On the first day of June 2024, Rupert Murdoch, aged ninety-three, married Elena Zhukova, a retired Russian molecular biologist, at his vineyard…
By Sara Bright In the shadow of Catford’s brutalist civic centre, behind a Gothic Revival façade designed by Edward Middleton Barry, St Dunstan’s College has…
By Sara Bright When Sister Wives premiered on TLC on 26 September 2010, it arrived with the unmistakable whiff of spectacle. Here was a television…
By Lana Sterling On 18 November 2023, Sheynnis Alondra Palacios Cornejo stood on stage at the Gimnasio Nacional José Adolfo Pineda in San Salvador, wearing…
By Sara Bright When Shelley Duvall died on 11 July 2024, the world saw two pictures: her terrified face behind the door in Stanley Kubrick’s…
By Sara Bright When 39 girls filed into the old Surrey Street Music Hall in Sheffield on 12 March 1878, nobody could have predicted that…
By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic Endless Column by Hank Willis Thomas, previously exhibited in Regent’s Park, London. (Creative Commons) While wandering through…
By Sara Bright Only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still stands. The Great Pyramid of Giza, built around 2560 BCE for…
By Alexander Stone In the spring of 2026, a 10,000-word New York Times investigation by John Carreyrou – the journalist who dismantled Theranos – named…
By Sara Bright In the summer of 1834, a steamship carried two of France’s most celebrated writers from Paris to Venice. Alfred de Musset, the…