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The Fall: what the hit South African play can teach us about the US

In retelling the story of students dismantling a colonialist statue in Cape Town, a vibrant dance-filled production carries prescience for contemporary America Rhodes was suspended in the air and he swung a few inches above the plinth like he wasnt sure if he should get off, or not. It looked like his ghost was fighting

Top 10 golden age detective novels

For some, cosy crime of the 1920s and 30s is class-ridden and formulaic but classic authors such as Agatha Christie and Josephine Tey paved the way for modern fiction as we know it Just how golden was the golden age of crime fiction? For some, the celebrated flowering of the detective story in the

Trial over brutal killings sheds light on MS-13 and power of US street gangs

Complex social and political elements swirl round gang with roots in El Salvador accused of hacking four US teens to death The mythology of the street gang is rooted in American popular culture, from West Side Story to The Warriors to Training Day.

What I learned at man camp, where men get in touch with their emotions

In early March, I headed to the California desert to explore my emotions and learn healthy masculinity with a group of men On a Friday evening in early March, two weeks before much of the US went into a coronavirus lockdown, I found myself standing in the California desert, screaming into another mans face.

Actor Vicky Krieps: I spent a whole day staring into greenery to avoid Daniel Day-Lewis | Phan

The rising star began filming opposite her triple-Oscar-winning co-star having only met him once. It was, she says, as intense as it looks When Vicky Krieps falls in love with Daniel Day-Lewis on screen, it is a moment that seems unrehearsed in its intensity and thats because it was. Day-Lewis insisted that Krieps, a