Culture

What Was the First Reality TV Show?

Unscripted television has captivated audiences for some 80 years.

Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great...

From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have fore...

Richard Kindersley, typeface designer, letterer and scu...

He was the scion of a letter-cutting dynasty and believed that hand-carving conf...

Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to ref...

The president has vowed to kill off ‘woke’ in his second term in office, and the...

‘There’s this whole other story’: inside the fight to e...

The Great Resistance, an expansive new book by author and historian Carrie Gibso...

From K-pop and The Traitors to Dune and the return of M...

From K-pop and The Traitors to Dune and the return of Madge: your A-Z of the big...

New year, old warnings: what can films set in 2026 teac...

From Doom and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes to Metropolis, Hollywood hasn’t pre...

Forget Keanu: Ulster Scots translation of Beckett class...

Tragicomedy will be performed outdoors in Northern Irish countryside as part of ...

Brigitte Bardot, legendary French film star and origina...

Her shock retirement from cinema in 1973 turned into a long journey into the wil...

The end of the BBC is nigh

The Corporation is becoming a national irrelevance

Converts by Melanie McDonagh review – roads to Rome

A thought-provoking examination of the literary stars who became Catholic – from...

How Bowie’s death became his last great work

The star’s final album may have been his most audacious. It left us with a myste...

Unseen Tennessee Williams radio play published in liter...

The Strangers, a horror tale written during the playwright’s college days, appea...

Pregnant at 61 or a mother aged three: why do movies lo...

In Kate Winslet’s Goodbye June, Timothy Spall, 68, plays the father of Toni Coll...