The British crown and the navy expanded and protected the trade in enslaved African people for hundreds of years, unprecedented research into the monarchy’s historical ties to slavery has found. The Crown’s... Read more »
Last year the New York Times ran a quiz entitled “Could You Have Landed a Job at Vogue in the 90s?” It was based on the fabled four-page exam Anna Wintour had... Read more »
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link Read more »
Last night, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, announced a £27.5m package for libraries. It’s the latest in a string of reading-focused government initiatives, the flagship being the education department’s National Year of... Read more »
All the nominees, from Sinners to One Battle After Another, for the 98th Academy Awards, which are due to take place on 15 March• Sinners becomes first film in history to earn... Read more »
At the start of A Single Man, George Falconer wakes up at home in the morning and drags himself despondently to the bathroom. There he stares at himself in the mirror, observing... Read more »
The crime writer Val McDermid has revealed she was assigned a “sensitivity reader” to remove language that could cause offence from her earlier works. The Scottish author has sold more than 19m... Read more »
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link Read more »
Early on in her latest collection, the Canadian poet Karen Solie apologises: “I’m sorry, I can’t make this beautiful.” The line appears in a poem, Red Spring, about agribusiness and its sinister... Read more »