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The only position of any ethical merit is to call for the slaughter to end and for justice and consequences for those who presided over this terror
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The US writer’s feeling for women’s plight is one of intense empathy, rather than immediate experience
Melissa McCarthy on The Little Mermaid: ‘We all saw camp in the original and we all loved it’
The scene-stealing star plays Ursula in Disney’s new live-action version of the story that has become an unlikely LGBTQ touchstone
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‘You have a problem,’ my wife told me during lockdown. And she’s absolutely right
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Richard Mosse: ‘The idea of the artist going it alone is bogus’
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Aimlessly walking within 2km of home, am I now a flâneur?
The French term for an urban wanderer has new relevance under Covid-19 restrictions
Living with chronic migraine: ‘13 years quashed by unrelenting pain’
Hours can blur into weeks where it feels like I am living in stasis
How a magazine became a piece of experimental art
Art in Focus: ‘Aspen 5+6’ is an exhibition in a cardboard container rather than a gallery
What future has the essay in a social media age?
Unthinkable: Despite today’s fashion for talking in tweets, there’s life in the old art form
Just the two of us? When being a couple becomes a hard choice
There are times when we start to consider the possible futures we have closed off
Vanessa Feltz: Kevin Myers and ‘Shylockian, Fagin-ian’ racism
Interview: The presenter on her fear of death, her love of praise and recent controversies
Has the age of instant access finally put an end to the critic?
The great art critic John Berger died this week - he may have been the last of his kind
Eric Luke: Photographing unforgettable faces
A new book by the veteran Irish Times snapper gathers together four decades of images
Erudite scholar known for his bestselling medieval novels
Umberto Eco: January 5th, 1932 – February 19th, 2016
Obsessively creating images is producing a culture that is turning in on itself
We have become a culture that treats experiences as if they exist to be captured
Murder and mind games: The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges
A new companion to the work of the great fabulist conveys the richness and depth of his writing
Susan Wood: from Easy Rider’s difficult shoot to clicking with John and Yoko
In her long career, the photographer has captured everyone from Jayne Mansfield to Norman Mailer. She tells how Dennis Hopper betrayed Peter Fonda and how she earned her subjects’ trust
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