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The blistering drama showing the US’s racist past from a new, first-person perspective

L Kasimu Harris (Credit: L Kasimu Harris) The Oscar-tipped film by RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead’s novel about two boys

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How ultra-traditional tweed found a new fanbase

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Once synonymous with the aristocracy, the thoroughly British winter favourite is now in demand more

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How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour became a near-religious experience

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, a “cultural juggernaut” remarkable for both its scale and intimacy, comes

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Why we’re ‘living in the golden age of the doppelganger’

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) It’s been a year of lookalikes – but the lure of the “second self” goes

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How the fall of Pyongyang brought the world to the brink of crisis

Getty Images In December 1950, a BBC cameraman captured the fall of Pyongyang, a defining moment in the Korean War.

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12 of the best films to watch this December

Searchlight Pictures From a steamy age-gap thriller starring Nicole Kidman to a Bob Dylan biopic featuring Timothée Chalamet, these are

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Nine of the best TV shows to watch in December

Netflix (Credit: Netflix) From the small-screen adaptation of a classic novel to the return of the phenomenon that is Squid

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Wicked author Gregory Maguire on the real meaning of the story that captivated the world

Universal Pictures Before it was a Hollywood blockbuster it was a megahit musical, and before that it was a 1995

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The hidden meanings in a 16th-Century female nude

The Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2024/ Royal Collection Trust Raphael’s The Three Graces (c1517-18) (Credit: The Royal Collection Enterprises Limited

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Ten key items in our wardrobe is enough – here’s why

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) The dopamine-spiking effects of ultra-fast fashion are far outweighed by the wellbeing rewards of a