May movies are brash and bold, then intimate and quiet. This month’s new releases include everything from cinematic car chases and epic stunts to small and tender stories about the price of fame, teenage dysphoria and motherhood. ‘The Idea of You’ (May 2) This buzzy rom-com now streaming on Amazon Prime is adapted from Robinne […]
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When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. Tom Crewe was recently named to Granta’s list of Britain’s best young novelists. “The New Life,” his acclaimed fact-based debut novel about two men collaborating on an 1890s study supporting […]
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May is a diverse month on TV. You would be hard-pressed to find a theme among this month’s new releases, which include a fresh season of a sultry Regency-era historical romance, a stark look at the Holocaust and a docuseries about a popular Twitter collective. ‘Tattooist of Auschwitz’ (May 2) This Peacock miniseries is not […]
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Most tourists hoping to see big cats in India go looking for Bengal tigers – but in the Sasan Gir National Park, there’s an even rarer beast to spot. This sanctuary, surrounded by the “vast” teak forests and grasslands of Gujarat’s “wild west”, is the only place outside Africa where lions still roam in the […]
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Tender, perfumed, and not too sweet, this is a cake for any time of day, says Sarah Johnson. Enjoy it lightly toasted with butter for breakfast or brunch. Serve it with tea in the afternoon, or dress it up in the evening with poached kumquats and softly whipped cream scented with Grand Marnier. And owing […]
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Early this year, a biography by the Tory peer Lord Ashcroft of Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader, accused her of failing to pay a capital gains tax bill when she sold her former council house in Stockport 2015. (Rayner claims that she was not liable because the house was her principal private residence.) However, a […]
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Hampshire: Edward Gardens, Old Bedhampton (Image credit: John D Wood) Edward Gardens, Old Bedhampton. Grade II manor house set in mature gardens boasting an ancient Irish yew. 5 beds, 4 baths, kitchen, 5 receps, library, garage. £3.25m; John D. Wood Gloucestershire: Rushbury, Winchcombe (Image credit: Hamptons) A striking modern house in 3.67 acres, perched on […]
Read MoreThe Venice Biennale is “the art world’s great beano”, said Laura Freeman in The Times. Every other year, artists, collectors, curators and assorted hangers-on from all over fly into the Italian city to see what is widely considered to be the planet’s most prestigious exhibition of contemporary art. This latest iteration of the biennale – […]
Read MoreIf you didn’t grow up in Scotland, said Simon Thompson on What’s on Stage, you may well not be fully aware of the cultural significance of, and popular affection for, Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel “Sunset Song”, the first in his “A Scots Quair” trilogy. Set on the brink of the First World War in […]
Read More“Cinema has brought us love triangles in the world of professional tennis before”, perhaps most memorably in Woody Allen’s “Match Point”, said Robbie Collin in The Daily Telegraph. “But the sheer racket-twanging steaminess of Luca Guadagnino’s new entry in the canon makes its forerunners look like games of back-garden Swingball.” Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist […]
Read MoreThe seven-part drama “Baby Reindeer” has been a hit for Netflix, drawing both critical acclaim and more than 13 million viewers, said Emma Jacobs in the FT. At its heart is “a visceral, complex tale of stalking and sexual violence”, loosely based on the real-life experiences of 34-year-old Scottish comedian Richard Gadd, its star and […]
Read MoreBubble tea is booming in Britain, with a Taiwanese chain planning to open 500 new branches across the UK to capitalise on the trend. The drink, also called boba tea, originated in Taiwan in the 1980s. A sweet, milky beverage, it gets its name from the chewy tapioca balls or ‘boba’ added to the drink […]
Read More“The production is slick, the pundits are sharp and the players are gods,” said Sky News, but these sporting professionals have keyboards and headphones and their UK tournaments are getting bigger and bigger. Around 15,000 fans from all over the world were at ESL One Birmingham on Sunday, where some of the best gamers battled […]
Read MoreThe line-ups and timings for the world’s largest classical music festival have been released, with this year’s performers ranging from Daniel Barenboim and Yo-Yo Ma to Florence Welch and even Daleks. Stretching over eight weeks this summer, the BBC Proms will feature 90 concerts – 73 at London’s Royal Albert Hall and 17 at venues across […]
Read MoreA wedding ring may be the only jewellery that many men habitually wear, but a growing number are embracing earrings, necklaces and other such accessories. According to Euromonitor, the global value of the men’s luxury jewellery market reached around $7.3 billion (£5.8 billion) in 2023 – an annual increase of 7.3% that “outpaces” the 4.6% […]
Read MoreThink of a May vacation as being one last spring fling, a chance to enjoy a getaway before the summer crowds arrive. When you are one step ahead of the masses, you are assured a more pleasant travel experience — and you also usually score lower hotel rates, too. The Stafford London in London, England […]
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“It would be easy for a historical murder procedural that relies on you having at least an A-level-size grasp on Tudor court intrigue to be a bit boring,” said Joel Golby in The Guardian. But “Shardlake”, the four-part Disney+ adaptation of the best-selling series of Tudor murder mystery novels by CJ Sansom, is a lot […]
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Movie musicals are a tricky genre. The big screen captures grandness well, and musicals are full of grand gestures. Still, there is an electricity that can be lost when the live element is stripped away. These eight musicals keep the spark and show just what the genre can do. ‘Sweet Charity’ (1969) The number ‘Big […]
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When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. Anything you give your mom for Mother’s Day is likely going to be a hit — this is the woman, after all, who wore the macaroni necklace you made in […]
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When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. Alabama native Daniel Wallace is the author of eight novels, including “Big Fish,” the 1998 best-seller adapted into a Tim Burton film. Wallace’s memoir “This Isn’t Going to End Well,” […]
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Sedona (Image credit: Courtesy image) This 2024 three-bedroom in West Sedona is minutes from shopping, dining, and hiking. The Dan Jensvold-designed home has owned solar panels, Douglas fir ceilings, art lights, a glass elevator, wood and polished-concrete floors, white-oak cabinetry, a chef’s kitchen with a farmhouse sink, a great room with a wall of windows; […]
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Sailing on Silversea’s luxurious and exquisitely designed Silver Nova ship is dreamy in itself, but add to that an incredible itinerary including the iconic Panama Canal and you have yourself a bucket-list cruise. As a solo traveller, I was pleasantly surprised by how well solo guests are looked after, with nightly solo traveller drinks, hosted […]
Read MoreThe beauty of traveling solo is that you make the rules. Get up at noon, eat breakfast for dinner, visit all the spas within a five-mile radius, go to the theater every night — spend your vacation doing what you want, when you want. Exploring on your own can be done for a change of […]
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Famous attractions are having to grapple with the problems of overtourism as people return to travelling in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic. After Venice introduced an entry fee for day-trippers, the world’s most famous artwork may be moved to a new underground room at the Louvre in Paris. And a town in Japan is […]
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Savour a long, sunny evening eating in the open air, with our menu of summer dining experiences. Feast over Flame, Marlow Feast over Flame is held at a secret location, accessed by boat from the riverside Georgian market town of Marlow. Once at your destination, festoon lights and music lead the way to your table, […]
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Australian animated series “Bluey” premiered in 2018 and has since captured the hearts and minds of children, parents and childless adults alike. In 2023, it was the “second-most popular streaming show in the U.S., where it was watched for 731 million hours,” said Vox. Following the domestic lives of a canine nuclear family, the program […]
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Bad movies can be an art form. Sometimes you are in the mood to watch a challenging biopic or a depressing documentary, but other days you want nothing more than to turn off your brain and turn on a movie so bad you can hardly believe it was ever greenlit. Oh, the sweet power in […]
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Skordostoumbi is a dish found in the Ionian Islands, said Georgina Hayden. It consists of layers of aubergine and tomato, and is heavy on the garlic: its name means garlic cloves. It is traditionally a vegan dish, but here I’ve roasted it in the oven, with the vegetables surrounding a block of feta. It’s super […]
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In the Middle Ages, their tusks were mistaken for unicorn horns and were deemed so magical that Ivan the Terrible called for one on his deathbed – and even today, narwhal still retain a little of their ancient mystique. Among the deepest divers of all marine mammals, these whales are elusive, and little understood by […]
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When Salman Rushdie attended a literary event in upstate New York on the morning of 12 August 2022, it had been 33 years since the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa for his novel “The Satanic Verses“. He writes in his new book that his first thought when he saw a masked man in black clothes running fast […]
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In the 1990s, the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare had an “epiphany”, said Ben Luke in the Evening Standard. He discovered that the colourful batik fabrics sold in Brixton Market, which he had always associated with West Africa, were in fact the product of complicated historical exchanges. They were based on Indonesian textiles shipped to Europe […]
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