Culture Editor's Choice
The lucrative rise of the self-published best-seller
Technology
In 2012, the American dystopian fiction writer Hugh Howey entered the rarefied ecosystem of blockbusting authors when his book Wool began selling ...
Director Kevin Costner may have just invented granddad cinema
Entertainment
A couple of years ago, when Top Gun: Maverick was riding high, the term ‘dad cinema’ caught on as a way to ...
cinema at its most soul-pricklingly primal
Entertainment
Alright, stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A train is hammering across an arid landscape when suddenly, out of the ...
Peter Kay, Utilita Arena, Birmingham, review: Kay’s rare common touch shines through
Technology
Peter Kay was set to enter British entertainment’s annals last month as “the first artist in the world” to perform at Manchester’s ...
Why Macron and the French elite still worship Gérard Depardieu
Trending
Within the French film industry, opinion on Depardieu remains starkly divided, with plenty of support for Macron’s point of view. One petition ...
Magic Pill by Johann Hari, review: the truth about Ozempic
Health
If you type the names of the weight-loss drugs Wegovy or Ozempic into a search engine, sponsored links dominate the page. “Starts ...
why did Belle Gibson fake cancer? For likes, of course
Trending
Everyone on Instagram is a con artist to some degree. All those curated images selling the lie of a perfect lifestyle. Sitting ...
warning – this show has reached hokum overload
Trending
You don’t tune into Midsomer Murders (ITV1) expecting verité film-making, but even so The Blacktrees Prophecy touched the very heights of hokum. ...
this tennis love triangle is full of racquet-twanging steaminess
Entertainment
All right, who’s for mixed doubles? Cinema has brought us love triangles in the world of professional tennis before – perhaps most ...
Ben Miller’s awkward detective makes for uncomfortable viewing
Trending
Professor T (ITV1) is a strange series about an odd fish. It’s back for a third run, which must mean that quite ...
