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This January, as the theater-festival blitz arrives, critic Sara Holdren is posting weekly diaries about everything she sees.

Mary Beard weighs in on the latest TikTok trend and why Romans would have loved social media.

There are some book titles like Ai-Kwei Armah’s novel of 1968 called The beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, that are meant to make the reader in a bookshop get immediately hooked up to a book and buy it immediately! In this case the title is a catchy phrase which acts like the bait that […]

The sovereignty act assumes if the feds stay in their lane all will be well; it won’t.

From Tues 14 – Thurs 16 June, award-winning theatre company Oddsocks return to the Belgrade Theatre with Hamlet The Comedy - their unique, riotously funny take on one of Shakespeare's most beloved plays.

The opening lines of a book are where the reader gets hooked. That is also true for good lists. Since I’ve already blown my chance to make a good first impression I offer up fifteen of the greatest opening lines in literature. They stand alone as sentences but also make you want to read on to discover what else is behind them.

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The time is overdue to look sincere by being sincere, and being sincere means proactive action, not words without thoughts

A walk in the ‘belly button of Wales’, then a pint at an idiosyncratic hotel that hosts bog-snorkelling races

The choice of Cush as the Dane was deemed a woke take on Shakespeare, while others said the actress is transfixingly ambiguous, collapsing definitions of gender